Our beach at Saraya

Back Where I started

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July 29th 2006
Hey Yall, I'm back in Ubud, Bali now, which is where I spent my first night on the archipelago. The last 10 days or so have been crazy. After I wrote last Lynda and I headed up to a town called Bajawa in Flores to check out some traditional villages. We got a pretty sweet deal in a private car there so we spent a couple extra dollars to cut the trip from 14 hours to 7 hours, and to minimize the ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud

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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