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15 April 2023

Blog entries
We had the idea of going to Bunce Island, a small island in the Sierra Leone river that empties in the ocean here. Bunce Island is the old British slave traders base, supposedly well protected, but demolished several times, by the French and by pirates. And now by the ravages of time, the place is [...]
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29 March 2023

Blog entries
Having enjoyed the surf – very strong undercurrent, no swimming in the sea here – and the pool, and the excellent restaurant of our beach hotel, there is not much more to do in Grand Popo. I take a walk along the beach, where fishermen are hauling in a huge net. As everywhere in Benin, [...]
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the south coast

Blog entries, Locations
Lindi Lindi cannot be omitted from this set of memories: it holds the dubious honour of having provided the worst hotel accommodation I have ever slept in, up to then in 1987, and all the years after that – and I have slept in quite a few dubious hotels during my travels. The problem with [...]
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Outside Doha

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And the rest of the country? Plain desert? Mostly, but that doesn’t mean that there is nothing to see. Having a long-standing interest in all matters rock-art, I had to see the petroglyphs of Jebel Jassassiyeh. These rather mysterious rock carvings have not been conclusively dated, neither have they been well-described, it seems. Apparently, there [...]
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Berestagi to Bukittinggi (3)

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Entering Minangkabau country on the way to the hill resort of Bukittinggi, also stopping in the steep Harau Canyon, the traditional village of Sumgayang, and the spectacular Danau Minajau crater lake, before descending to Padang on the coast
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Berestagi to Bukittinggi (2)

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Via the village of Dokan and a Batak palace to Samosir in Lake Toba, with its stone sculptures and sarcophagi, and then on to the market of Balige and the fishing communities of Sibolga
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Padang

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Large coastal town with little to do on a Sunday, except beach front and market entertainment
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Danau Maninjau

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Beautiful crater lake has become a popular tourist hang-out, although fishing seems an equally important business
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Sibolga

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Fishing village and ferry port on the Westcoast of Sumatra, with several amazing communities built on stilts
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Danau Jempang

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Large, shallow lake teeming with fish and birds turns out to host a board walk village, too
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