National Park

East Java - Bromo

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September 22nd 2008
Another epic journey, but at least this one went pretty smoothly, just 10 hours and we nearly died on several occasions with our MAD mini van driver, who overtook anything and everyone, even when there was a extra large and fast lorry coming the other way, even Stu was holding on! But we arrived up high in the mountains around 9pm, checked into our home stay, which was very basic but fine for a ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Java » Bromo Tengger Semeru

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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