It's my last few hours in Indonesia. Zoe has returned to Flores & I am alone again as I will be for the next three months. It's an intimidating thought, but all the same I'm looking forward to a new challenge & a new country.
It'll be strange moving from the worlds largest archipelago to the only country whose land mass is so great it forms a continent. In Indonesia I often travelled between islands by boat & it will be a marked difference to travel across land - across distances so great and so empty I can't begin to imagine what it will be like.
But I am expecting some things to be familiar. Flores is the same side of the Wallace Line as Oz so some of the flora and fauna will be the same. There is also new research suggesting that the Australian Aborigines first came from Eastern Indonesia (check out the Flores hobbit), many thousands of years before I ever thought of making the journey.
So tomorrow I will arrive in another adventure. I hope that this one will be a little easier than the last, but I also hope that I learn & experience just as much.
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By bye, salamat jalan to Karen - you'll be missed - never forget Ruteng!!!! Here is a link to the best photos from our last party-filled week in Bali and Gili Trawangan.
Have a great time in Oz!
x x Zoe
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