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I fell in love with the Banda Islands, a group of 10 lush volcanic islands in Indonesia, when I visited them a few years ago. I sailed down there on a prahu – a small native sailing boat with a ...

I was recently in a tiny group of islands in eastern Indonesia called the Bandas, remote even by the standards of that far-flung archipelago nation. They are the ultimate storybook stereotype of the ...

The dinghy glides across the 100 metres that separate the islands of Banda Neira and Banda Api, and moors under the flanks of the cone-shaped Gunung Api, “fire mountain” in Bahasa Indonesia. My ...

It sounds like a literary intrigue: I am on an Indonesian pirate ship in the middle of the Banda Sea to source the most coveted luxury in 17th-century Europe. I should add, sotto voce of course, that ...

That little brown nut you grate into your meat curry or favorite sweet or drink, and which fills your kitchen with its heady, inviting aroma, is exported to the world out countries like Granada and ...

Much of Indonesia’s history and ideology can be traced back to the Banda Islands, a group of remote, small volcanic islets some 4,000km from the capital of Jakarta. At 180 sq km, the islands are small ...

AT MIDNIGHT on my last night in eastern Indonesia’s Spice Islands, I sat on a sea wall with my feet hanging over the waters of the Banda Sea. Behind me, the veranda of Hotel Maulana, on the island of ...