Bukittingi main street

First week in Indonesia

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August 3rd 2009
27th/28th July A very emotional day leaving Manchester. We made it to Stansted about 10pm and hit the bar until check-in. We took off about 1.25 am, I was fairly appalled to discover that we weren't allowed to sleep - they started trollying curry around! Anyway, we got to sleep around 3am and slept for the majority of the 13 hour journey. We arrived in Kuala Lumpur around 9.30pm KL time and got ... 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