Storyteller's Web Diary - Banda Festival

Banda Festival

Storyteller

Tue 27 Jul 2010 22:31

Position 04.31S 129.53E

We had a comfortable run into Banda yesterday, arriving early in the afternoon. Darwin didn't really know the Rally was on but Banda are building a huge festival around the event.

We'll report in detail with pics later.

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