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Caption: IT TAKES 46 YEARS
TO EXPLORE INDONESIA
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Caption: We all know of Bali, of course. From backpackers on a budget to well-heeled honeymooners, solitary spa junkies and family holidaymakers, tourists come here in their millions.
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Caption: But there are 17,000 other islands in Indonesia.
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Caption: An archipelago that straddles the Equator and spans 3,000 miles from east to west – a distance greater than that from London to Teheran
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Caption: Those islands give Indonesia another stunning fact. It hast a strikingly long coastline at over 95,000 km. That's twice the earth circumference
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Caption: All major islands in Indonesia are dotted with countless soaring volcanoes and mountains
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Caption: Out of many volcanoes in Indonesia, over 125 volcanoes are active
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Caption: One of its highest peaks is located in the island of Papua, soaring over 4800 m above sea level. Yes, that's snow capping the peak of Mt Jayawijaya
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Caption: What's undersea is similarly eye-watering. Indonesia is the heart of the world’s coral reef biodiversity, it holds an incredible 75 percent of all known coral species in the world
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Caption: ..and that comes with unthinkable diversity of marine lives. Some of them are endemic to Indonesia. Yes, those are stingless jellyfish, and yes..you can swim along with them
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Caption: The 17,000 islands with their mountainous landscape gives Indonesia the superpower of socio-culture diversity
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Caption: Indonesia is a country full of diversity, home to over 1000 different ethnic groups, over 700 languages, and various religions
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Caption: The culture of Indonesia has been shaped by long interaction between countless original indigenous customs and multiple foreign influences
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Caption: Think of this.
If you stay one day in each island in Indonesia, you will need 46 years (!!) to explore 17,000 islands of this archipelago
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Caption: Yes.
46 years
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Caption: "INDONESIA, AWESOMENESS OVERLOAD AKHYARI HANANTO
