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Top 10s across Indonesia

Seventeen thousand islands, three time zones and more active volcanoes than any other country. Indonesia is not a destination so much as a shortlist of them under one passport stamp.

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Indonesia is too spread out to lap, so plan around one or two islands and let the internal flights do the rest. Bali is the usual opening and the easiest, Java carries the temples and the volcanoes, and Sumatra, Flores and Raja Ampat each reward the extra leg.

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Indonesia counts 127 active volcanoes, more than any other country, and sits on the stretch of the Ring of Fire where the Indo-Australian plate dives under the Eurasian one.

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