In the van

Lombok; the diamond in the ruff

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March 2nd 2010
We booked a bus to take us to Padang Bay, so we could catch a ferry over to Lombok island. Once we got on the bus we realized that the bus was not going straight to Padang Bay....oh no....it was going to be making a couple detours. I thought I was going to be stuck on this bumpy, hot bus for hours. It ended up taking us to Ubud, which was about 2 hours. We transfered to another bus which was "the ... 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