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Ubud, Offerings and Deranged Monkeys

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March 12th 2010
We arrived in Ubud, Bali, quite late in the evening and settled down in a hotel with all three of us in a very grande room, which although being a bit more than we wanted to pay, did afford us the first hot shower we had had since arriving in Indonesia. Ubud was lovely, it had a really quaint feel to it that we hadn't really experienced before and was very different to the brash Kuta side of Bali ... 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