Dinner with Liany's sister and family, Jakarta

Indonesia part one

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February 10th 2011
The past month has been more about making friends and creating relationships than about sight seeing. We met up with our friend Liany in Singapore, then travelled with her to visit her sister in Jakarta. We spent a wonderful four days getting to know Irma, Augie and their daughters. We saw some of the sights of Jakarta, but spent a lot of time in traffic jams, which is totally a fact of life th ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Java » Jakarta

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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