Artiistic Bali

Bali

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February 5th 2010
The explorers have done it. The tourists have done it over. The terrorists tried to finish it. So how to say something new about Bali? There hasn’t been a terrorist hit for very nearly five years, and Bali’s not Hindu for nothing. A religion of regeneration if ever there was one. It’s the same, yet not the same. We avoided the southern beaches, still pretty full of tourists, although w ... 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