Monket Forest 18

Ubud, Kuta and farewell to Indonesia

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April 10th 2010
After a 7am start, we arrived in Ubud at about 8pm in the dark and the minibus driver did the usual trick of dropping us off at his friends hotel a, 10 minute walk from the centre of town. The place was pretty pricey so we decided to try our luck elsewhere and not two minutes later, a family drove past on a motor bike and the guy offered us a cheap room at his hotel. We decided to check it out a ... 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