Mt Batur

Mt Batur

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June 9th 2007
1700metre climb before brekky!?!... Its 3pm and I have been up for precisely 12 hours!!!!!!!!!!! Yes this morning we rose early at 3am to climb Mount Batur which is one of Bali's LIVE volcanoes!!!!!!!! This was no easy climb, I can tell you. We did well...though I'm sure we would still be up there if it hadn't been for our guides pulling us up to the top! We started the clim ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Bali

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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