While we have been traveling, we have seen and heard about many current events relating to the countries we are visiting. Most significantly, the Rohingya crisis, where Muslim migrants from the Rankine state of Myanmar were abandoned at sea. During our time in Asia, the catastrophic earthquake in Nepal and the “Bali Nine” case, relating to executions of foreigners in Indonesia, also made headlines. And during our travels in Europe, the Greek debt crisis, the Turkish elections, and the Pope’s encyclical on the environment have all been major stories in the news.
Since you have been reading about our adventures on this blog, we’ve created a new page to give you some background information about these current events, in the context of the history of the countries we have visited. We’ll be updating this page regularly with new posts.
You can read the first post on the history of Indonesia and Papua here.
-Isaiah Paley Whitman