Thursday, March 20, 2008

Indonesia

This is the house in the Jalan Cipunegara (Bandung) where I lived the first 10 years of my live. It was a spacious house as far as I can remember. When I lived there there was no fence before the house. In the backyard were several trees, the one I remember most is a Jambu tree, I also remember a banana tree and a jeruk bali tree next to the back porch.
This is a house I did not live in. It is the palace of the Indonesian president in Bogor. It was build as a palace for the Governor General, founded by Governor-General van Imhoff in 1744 and rebuilt after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1834. It is situated in near the Botanical Garden (founded in 1817). In the botanical garden is a memorial for Olivia Raffles the wife of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, who was Lieutenant-Governor from 1811 untill 1816, during the British rule of the Dutch Colony.

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