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On the tour bus, I sat in the front seat next to the young driver who drove like a maniac, honking the horn almost constantly. There were so many near misses it was frightening. I took this photo of what I thought was going a head-on crash with an oncoming bus traveling fast as we were while passing a car. There were people on each side of the road...not a lot of clearance for anybody.
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After that, I resigned myself to fate. We did have a couple of hits...a duck and a chicken. Sights on the trip photos follow: different types of terracing even on steep hills and road cuts; a woman with a huge goiter, water buffalo pulling plows; rice,tea, and tobacco drying; men breaking rocks by hand for the highway; people carrying rocks, dirt, manure, and about everything else on poles; men breaking up large clods with huge wooden mallets; volcanoes and old Hindu temple ruins on the Dieng Plateau; hot sulfur pools; lunch and magic at Wonosobo in the center of Java; Borobudur, rain; and duck herders. No matter how far out in the boondocks we got, people were always in view.
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When it started to rain, all the racks were put in shelter in about ten minutes.
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The Hindu temple was built in the 8th century and most of it fell down in the 13th century.
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The rocks were hand-dipped in melted tar then set down one-by-one to make the bridge pavement.
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The Borobudur photos are on the next page.
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