Borobudur

Goodbye to Indonesia

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January 29th 2009
Hello everybody! Well today is my last day in Indonesia before we fly off to Malaysia tomorrow! Thought is was about time I caught up on my blog. I believe I was in Kuta the last time I wrote. Kuta was a very very busy and overwhelming place. Although its tourism was devastated by bombings that killed over 200 people a few years back it seemed to us that many tourists were coming back to Kuta ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Java » Jakarta

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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