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Jungle Book

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April 19th 2016
We were off at 8.00 with a guide for something called a 'village walk'. We took a bus to the rural area outside Cianjur and began with a language lesson from our guide who taught us how to say hello in the local dialect (pandun) which would go down well with people we met. The start of the walk began in a padi fields which were all neatly terraced and planted. Our path took us through a collect ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Java » Cianjur

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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