Straddling the mid Atlantic ridge around 950 miles west of Lisbon lays the stunning Azores archipelago. Often described as the tips of the lost continent of Atlantis, the islands maintain an Old World charm that is difficult to find almost anywhere else in Europe. The nine volcanic islands that make up the Azores lie [...]
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Knowing, Exploring? Indonesia, The World’s Largest Archipelago State
March 17th, 2010
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Unity in Diversity, the national motto of Indonesia, is a term that strikes deep into the heart of this dynamic and attractive Southeast Asian nation. Few places offer such cultural variety and geographical complexity as Indonesia, and no two journeys here are ever alike. Indonesia is composed of seventeen thousand islands that stretch over [...]
Paradise Archipelago in East of Indonesia
January 27th, 2010
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The archipelago around Sulawesi and Borneo has been described as an ecological ‘hot spot’. East of Indonesia Archipelago have much terrain varied, from walls and fringing reef to caverns, big Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas), whitetip, leopard and nurse sharks, schooling barracudas, napoleon wrasses, cuttle fish, spanish mackerel, jacks and batfishes, and ornamentalreef fishes hang [...]
Travel To Philippines: The Prized Archipelago
December 9th, 2009
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Somewhere in Southeast Asia between the Philippine Sea and the East China Sea, east of Vietnam, south of Taiwan and just north of Indonesia, lies a much neglected but historically and ecologically prized archipelago known as the Philippines. This understated cluster of 7,107 islands is the perfect tropical getaway balanced with just enough colonial [...]
Knowing, Exploring… Indonesia, The World’s Largest Archipelago State
December 5th, 2009
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Unity in Diversity, the national motto of Indonesia, is a term that strikes deep into the heart of this dynamic and attractive Southeast Asian nation. Few places offer such cultural variety and geographical complexity as Indonesia, and no two journeys here are ever alike. Indonesia is composed of seventeen thousand islands that stretch over [...]
Eastern archipelago pilot: Vol.2; comprising the south-eas ern end of Sumatra, Sunda Strait, Java, islands eastward of Java, southern and eastern coasts … and the western part of the Soela Eiland n
November 27th, 2009
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Eastern archipelago pilot: Vol.2; comprising the south-eas ern end of Sumatra, Sunda Strait, Java, islands eastward of Java, southern and eastern coasts … and the western part of the Soela Eiland n
