Indonesia is a vast country in Southeast Asia, an enormous island chain, stretching nearly 5.000 km from the west to the east, curling around the equator, bordered by the Indian and the Pacific Ocean, a land of incredible beauty and extreme diversity, high mountains and active volcanoes, dry savannas in the Lesser Sunda Islands and lush rainforests in Sumatra and Kalimantan, tea plantations in Java, tobacco growing on the higher table-lands, delicately modeled rice terraces in Bali and Sulawesi, everywhere you travel, the most beautiful landscapes your eyes have ever met ...
A nation with incredible cultural richness, too. Imagine a country where more than 300 ethnic groups speak their own language and live harmoniously together within the same boundaries. Think about all the different customs and the religious variety you can explore in such a country. From the west Sumatran highlands, where the women are in charge, to the the colorful Hindu rituals of the Balinese, from the primitive ways of life in Kalimantan and Irian Jaya to the elaborate and refined Javanese society, from the Torarajas with their strong and unique culture to the the remote villages of the primitive Sasaks in Lombok, the "forgotten" tropical island... then you have found the magic of Indonesia or Tanah Air Kita, "Our Land and Our Water", as the over 200 million inhabitants of this magnificent land between Asia and Australia commonly and proudly call their home, fully realizing it is the biggest island nation on earth.
Even taken into account that nobody knows exactly how many islands Indonesia has – recently re-counted to more than 17.000 - the country is, without any doubt, the largest archipelago nation in the world, spanning over 5.200km between west and east. While such a country is to encompassing for even a thousand pictures, it will impress the soul of very righteous traveler time fater time.