Ubud

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October 28th 2008
Ugh... I just wrote a whole thing about monkeys and it got deleted. So here's the short version... I know you all think that all Steph and I do is lie by the pool. And that's not totally a misconception. However, I have gotten it out of my system, so I finally made Steph do something "cultural" with me. Yesterday we went to Ubud, about an hour or so north of Kuta. Ubud is, or was, the ar ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more