Jakarta Revisited
July 26th 2008 Jakarta in a strange way grows on you.
The city becomes very tropical and is a huge urban metropolis but then the leaves and trees surround you and you see that nature is not far away and the jungle is not completely distanced from you in the city. The speed of the traffic whirls past you. It's dirty, full of cars, hot, steamy, but life is buzzing around.
So let me complain just a bit. My
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