Lovers bicycle around the world<\/p>\n
Laetitia van der Elst and Frederic Duprat, who
\nare traveling around the world by bike, pose with Indonesia's
\nUsmadi, who is journeying across the archipelago by bike, near
\nCirebon, West Java.<\/p>\n
Laetitia, a doctor, visited The Jakarta Post's offices on
\nSunday, and said that she and Duprat, a computer engineer, had
\ndecided to make the journey to discover the world.<\/p>\n
Starting out from the U.S. city of San Diego on Feb. 12, 2001,
\nthe lovers, who come from Belgium, took a sailing boat to New
\nZealand before starting out on their bike journey.<\/p>\n
Moving successively through West Nusa Tenggara, Bali, East
\nJava, Central Java, West Java and Jakarta, they have so far
\ntraveled some 11,000 kilometers.<\/p>\n
\"We like Indonesia ... each island has its own uniqueness and
\nculture.<\/p>\n
\"But we're concerned about pollution in Java particularly, as
\nsometimes we could no longer hear the singing of birds,\" said
\nLaetitia.<\/p>\n
They are now on their way to Batam and Singapore, before
\ntraveling on to Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, China, Taiwan, the
\nPhilippines, and the Indonesia islands of Sulawesi and
\nKalimantan.<\/p>\n
\"Yes, we are making a loop ... back to Indonesia. Afterward,
\nwe'll go on to our final destination in Europe, but we have no
\nidea yet when we will finish our trip,\" she said, adding that
\nthey had not been sponsored by anyone. --JP<\/p>",
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