Intrepid Spice Traders
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
WILL the Borobudur be able to sail as far as Ghana in West Africa like our ancestors did? We have to wait and see. The 18.29-meter-long and 4.25-meter-wide vessel, with its 18-meter mast will cruise a distance of 27,750 kilometers, or half way round the world, on a Jakarta-Maldives-Cape Town (South Africa)-Ghana sea voyage.
The Borobudur is testing and proving the fearless Indonesian sailors in ancient times, who bravely sailed through the oceans
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