The National Monument - Dusk
The National Monument in the centre of Jakarta was the biggest architectural extravagence of dictator Soekarno's rule. These people had just been to the top of the 132m tower.
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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 ho... [read more]
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Date: July 15th 2005
We went to Jakarta... it was rubbish. That's possibly a little unfair; like all big SE Asian cities it was hot and crowded and smelly and fast and really just a bit too much when you've been on a plane for million hours and don't quite know what day it is. We stayed in Jarkarta for two nights and then, on the advice of a Welsh school teacher (why not!?), jumped on the train to Bogor. Bogor's ma ... read more
Date: July 15th 2005
We went to Jakarta... it was rubbish. That's possibly a little unfair; like all big SE Asian cities it was hot and crowded and smelly and fast and really just a bit too much when you've been on a plane for million hours and don't quite know what day it is. We stayed in Jarkarta for two nights and then, on the advice of a Welsh school teacher (why not!?), jumped on the train to Bogor. Bogor's ma ... read more
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I'm a second year psychology student at the University of Leicester, UK. In 2003 I went on a Coral Cay marine conservation expedition to the Perhentian Isalnds, Malaysia. After the expedition finished I travelled up to Thailand and Laos and caught both the travel bug and thank to James (a fellow diver) a passion for photography. Both have stayed with me and in 2004 I spent a month in Cambodia and Vietnam with my friends Hazel and Ash (another man with a good eye for a photo). This year (2005) it's Indonesia for 2 months with Elaine (my girlfriend). Watch this space...... full info
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