Mohican monkey

Monkey forest - Ubud, Bali

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September 13th 2008
I spent most of the morning wandering around the shops. I think I'll probably try and come back here for a day at the end of my trip for present shopping - I just can't carry everything round with me. After lunch I headed down to monkey forest. It's not very big, as I thought, but the trees are very dense so you can pretend your away from a town if you blank out the road noise. The monkeys a ... 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