Rice fields

Bali

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January 26th 2018
Hopefully no more stories about unexploded ordinances, wars, or killing fields. No guarantees, though, because we only have tickets through Australia and New Zealand; we don’t know where we’re going after that. From Cambodia, we went to Bali; the volcano had already erupted by the time we arrived, and life was pretty much back to normal. We met in Bali in 1991. We were both backpacking, Pete ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Bali

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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