Steaming Crater!

Java

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September 17th 2008
Hello Again Everyone! The next stage of our trip took us from Sumatra to Java, seen as the heartbeat of Indonesia and home to 60%!o(MISSING)f its population. Jakarta & Bogor We flew from Padang in Sumatra to Jakarta, the bustling capital of Indonesia in Western Java. From what we had heard Jakarta was not really a place to linger and so we had planned our only full day in and around the cit ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud

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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