article_snippet: The families of two Australian drug smugglers  today made the torturous journey to Indonesia's notorious 'Death Island' to say The families of two Australian drug smugglers  today final goodbyes before the pair are executed by firing squad.
article_snippet: way to Death Island via boat from Cilacap in central Java.
article_snippet: The pair are among a group of up to 11 convicts, mostly foreigners, due to be executed on the prison island of Nusakambangan.
article_snippet: Last place on earth: This is Nirbaya, also known as 'Death Valley', the place where condemned prisoner Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will likely be taken for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran executions and located up a winding dirt track around 3km from the prison where Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are being held in isolation cells . '
article_snippet: This is the spot to which the Indonesians took five foreign drug smugglers this year, tied five foreign drug smugglers to three metre poles and executed five foreign drug smugglers each with 12-member firing squads at around 12.40am local time  on Sunday, January 18 .
article_snippet: It is not known how the prisoners will be transported to Nirbaya valley, as It lies down a narrow dirt track (above) amid dense vegetation in the middle of Nusakambangan Island off southern central Java .
article_snippet: This weather beaten hut in Nirbaya or Death Valley sits near the sport where foreign drug smugglers were executed in January and where the Australian Bali Nine duo may be taken soon and put to the firing squad .
article_snippet: The jungle and rainforest of Nuskambangan prison island looms over the Barracuda armoured personnel van carrying Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran as The jungle and rainforest of Nuskambangan prison island arrive off the police boat on Wednesday following The jungle and rainforest of Nuskambangan prison island final plane flight, from Bali to Cilacap in southern Java . '
article_snippet: The spot where the executions are due to take place is called Nirbaya, and The spot where the executions are due to take place's located in a high spot amid the dense vegetation which runs along the spine of Nusakambangan.
article_snippet: Situated quite high up amid hills in the island of Nusakambangan's centre, Nirbaya was also the place where the Bali bombers, Amrozi, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra were executed in 2008, six years after the Bali bombers, Amrozi, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra carried out the nightclub bombings which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians and 27 Britons.
article_snippet: Shackled and handcuffed, Andrew Chan cut a sad figure as Andrew Chan was escorted by four faceless Indonesian police officers across the tarmac after being taken from Korobokan prison in Bali to their final destination, the island of Nusakambangan .
article_snippet: Utter despair is etched on the face of condemned prisoner, Myuran Sukumaran, as Andrew Chan arrived at Cilacap airport in central Java, Indonesia, only 700km by plane but a world away from the comparative freedom of Andrew Chan art workshops inside Kerobokan prison on the island of Nusakambangan Bali .
article_snippet: This is the exterior of Batu prison on Nuskambangan island where special isolation cells away from non death row prisoners were prepared to hold Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran ahead of Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran scheduled execution by firing squad .