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Favorite thing: my favorite is about food,

many traditional food around bogor, so spicy & they are not usual food for international travellers, but you can try and put your comment on it

Fondest memory: there is a botanical garden since hundreds years ago, which is princess astrid from europe doing her honey moon

Favorite thing: The Presidential Summer Palace,
Istana Bogor, is located on the northwest side
of the Botanical Gardens. We saw it from the
street and from the botanical gardens behind
the tree with the giant bats.

Round the palace you can still find about 300
white-spotted deer. How did they end up here?
During the Dutch colonial period they used to
serve as food for the dutch rulers.
These days I think they just have to look good.

We could not resist feeding them from within
the botanical garden. They are quit gentle animals.

Favorite thing:
When we left the botanical garden we were
attracted by noise. A lot of noise. We went a
little closer and before we knew it we were
dragged in. From ou former journey we knew
that chinese temples are very inviting and
not offended by visitors. Au contrary.

Since it never hurts to ask any God for
whatever wish we bought ourselves some
incense sticks and things to offer. And we
imitated the others , but still did it all wrong.
Well , a very friendly man guided us around ,
explained us why this and why that and how
to do it right.

And suddenly he dissapeared. We hadn't even
had the chance to thank him. We had a
fantastic time. Especially me...I had Frederik
doing all the work and I took pictures. :-)

I wonder if his wishes came true?
I bet they did.