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Pura Taman Sari
The quiet lawns and ponds around this temple, northeast of the Taman Kertha Gosa complex, make it a relaxing stop and live up to the translation of its name: Flower Garden Temple. The towering 11-roofed meru indicates that this was a temple built for royalty; today it seems built f
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Puri Gede
Puri Gede is still used by the royal family. Surrounded by long walls, the palace grounds feature many brick buildings dating from the Dutch colonial period. Look for 19th-century stone carvings and woodcarvings. The Rangki , the main palace building, has been returned to its glory
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Goa Kasah
Considered to be the largest cave system in the Kerinci Valley, and not yet fully explored, this cave makes for a good day trek (around 2½ hours one way) from the village of Sungai Sampun. The hike isn’t very strenuous, and runs largely through picturesque rice fields before ascend
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Ida Bagus Anom Suryawan
Three generations of carvers produce some of Balis most revered masks in this family compound, right off the main road in Mas. There is a small showroom with their works, but mostly the appeal is visiting with the family while they create something out of cedar; join them for lesso
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Archaeological Museum
This archaeological museum, located next to the mosque Mesjid Agung, has a modest collection of local clay artefacts, and spikes used by Banten’s Debus followers. (The Debus tradition involves masochistic activities like self-piercing, which the faithful are said to be able to perf
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Gedung Pancasila
Gedung Pancasila is an imposing neoclassical building built in 1830 as the Dutch army commander’s residence. It later became the meeting hall of the Volksraad (People’s Council), but is best known as the place where Sukarno made his famous Pancasila speech in 1945, laying the found
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Puri Saren Agung
Puri Saren Agung and Ubud Palace share space in the heart of Ubud. The compound has many ornate corners and was mostly built after the 1917 earthquake. The local royal family still lives here and you can wander around most of the large compound exploring the many traditional and no
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Vihara Bhatra Sasana
Dragons adorn the beautifully painted upturned eaves on the roof of this Chinese temple. A statue of Kuan Yin (Guanyin), the goddess of mercy, stands at the central altar. Turn left out of the ferry terminal and keep walking to the end of the road. The temple is on your right, on t
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Tugu Khatulistiwa
If you want to stand on two hemispheres, you can formally do so here – though continental drift has moved the monument 117m south of the actual equator. The gift shop nearby has a colourful collection of T-shirts, sarongs and equator lamps. Cross the river by ferry and take an opel
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Gua Kotilola
The road north from Jiwika is flanked by rocky hills with several caves. Gua Kotilola is a sizeable cavern up a short, pretty path behind a Dani compound, about 5km north of Jiwika. It contains the bones of past tribal-war victims – though they don’t show these to outsiders. It’s h
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Air Terjun Salopa
If you have wheels you can visit this impressive, powerful waterfall that drops in stages through rainforest, 15km south of Tentena. The falls are a spectacular place for a swim, and you can hike through the jungle and alongside a plunging river for a few kilometres – keep an eye o
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Pura Suranadi
Set amid gorgeous countryside, holy Pura Suranadi is worth a visit for its lovely gardens, which have a bubbling, icy natural spring and restored baths with ornate Balinese carvings (plus the obligatory holy eels). The temple is 6km northwest of Narmada and served by frequent publi
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Songgoriti
Songgoriti, 3km west of Batu, has well-known hot springs and a small, ancient Hindu temple on the grounds of the Hotel Air Panas Songgoriti. Nearby, Pasar Wisata is a tourist market selling mostly apples, bonsai plants and volcanic stone mortars and pestles. The waterfall Air Terju
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Stone Pillar
The pillar, down a narrow lane to the left as you face Pura Belangjong, is Balis oldest dated artefact and has ancient inscriptions recounting military victories from more than a thousand years ago. These inscriptions are in Sanskrit and are evidence of Hindu influence 300 years be
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Koto Gadang
Silversmiths occupy several old Dutch houses of Koto Gadang, 5km from Bukittinggi (an angkot costs 3000Rp). Alternatively, it’s an hour’s walk from Taman Panorama. Silver Work (Jln Sawahan 1) by Weli Syar Mak Wan is particularly worth seeking out for his intricate, fine models of t
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Pantai Panjang
Bengkulu’s main beach, Pantai Panjang, is 7km of clean white sand. Strong surf and currents make it unsafe for swimming, but there are decent surf breaks towards the northern and southern ends of the beach, and, unusually for Sumatra, there’s a jogging track that stretches the leng
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Schelling House
This massive, columned house, owned by the daughter of the last Banda king, will inspire I could live here fantasies. It has a leafy courtyard, high ceilings and, in the the master bathroom, a stone tub resting against an exposed coral wall. And definitely wander up to that special
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Bukit Bangkirai
Perhaps it is the adrenaline from standing in a 30m-tall old-growth dipterocarp tree…perhaps it is the impressive view…but it is hard not to feel emotional about the countless other trees no longer standing nearby – clear-cut by the very company preserving these relics. Take angkot
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Sunda Kelapa
A kilometre north of Taman Fatahillah, the old port of Sunda Kelapa is full of magnificent Makassar schooners (pinisi) . The dock scene here has barely changed for centuries, and porters unload cargo from these sailing ships by hand and trolley. Sadly, the port itself is rundown an
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National History Museum
In the base of the monument Monas, the National History Museum tells the story of Indonesia’s independence struggle in 48 dioramas using Thunderbirds -like models. The numerous uprisings against the Dutch are overstated but interesting; Sukarno is barely mentioned and the events su
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