{"id":5959,"date":"2015-06-08T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T15:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2020-11-02T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:07:06","slug":"banda-islands-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/banda-islands-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Banda Islands of Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tiger Blue at the Banda Islands<\/p><\/div>\n

The Banda Islands of Indonesia are 200km from the nearest port town of Ambon and they lie peacefully in the Banda sea, roughly 2000km east of\u00a0Java. As one of the most famously\u00a0beautiful spots in an archipelago teeming with them, the Banda Islands are much lusted over, but little visited. Just the sort of place then, that globetrotter and\u00a0travel writer,\u00a0Sophy Roberts<\/a>,\u00a0likes to visit and write about. Have a look at her piece ‘Where the Wild Things Are”\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0in Mr Porter Magazine.<\/p>\n

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Banda Islands<\/p><\/div>\n

The Banda Islands were once\u00a0famous for their spices and in particular the highly valued\u00a0nutmeg that was grown there (at one point Nutmeg was the world’s most expensive commodity, a shocking fact for anyone forced to eat nutmeggy Simnel Cake). The story always told about Banda is about how the Dutch traded Manhattan for the last remaining island in Banda not under their control; Run.<\/p>\n

\"Visit<\/a><\/span>