View From a Hill: Gajah Mungkur in Central Java
There awaits the visitor to Central Java an enormous body of water. It goes by the name of Gajah Mungkur, and it has much to stimulate one's senses.
Eye in the Middle
[In]Expert Travel Insight
Eye in the Middle
[In]Expert Travel Insight
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Our correspondent has left, and he refuses to say where he has gone. In his place has arisen a thing that answers to no name. But we shall call it Dia. The Greater Power to Dia, whose words will mould our direction henceforth.
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Our correspondent ponders the role of war and bloodshed in establishing a place's character.
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