Paul at Borobudur

Java

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October 19th 2007
After Lake Toba we caught a crammed bus back up to Medan, then flew to Jakarta. As soon as we landed in Jakarta we decided not to stay long. It's another busy, noisey sprawl so after squeezing in a few hours sleep we booked a minivan to take us to Yogyakarta further south. We were told by the agent that we wold have a lovely spacious, air con minivan, which we did, but we were also told that the t ... 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