Sultan's Palace

Yogya

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February 20th 2009
Our train ride from Bandung was horrible. The 8 hours trip began at 8pm, which meant we arrived in Yogya at 4am after a sleepless night. Unsurprisingly, as it was 4am, the town was still asleep so we decided to try our luck and turn up at the hotel we had booked. Fortunately two of the three rooms we had reserved were available so we all crawled into bed and finally got some sleep. We spent o ... 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