returning from a ceremony at the holly lake

Bali summary

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January 30th 2014
Last 2 nights in Bali and we are now at a touristy beach resort so time to sum up our time in Bali. Bali is so very different to Java. As soon as we arrived we noticed how much more affluent it is. There are more cars, the buildings are mostly made of bricks and nobody looks really poor and things are definitely geared to the tourists - the source of most of Bali's income for the past three ... 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