Javas Valley of the Kings
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
T HE island of Java was the genesis of Indonesias most powerful maritime and agricultural kingdoms, containing the countrys best-preserved and largest number of classical monuments, many built centuries before Columbus discovered America. On the rich Prambanan Plain, along a harrowing road 17 kilometers northeast of Yogyakarta, are the most extensive Hindu temple ruins on Java. It took staggering agricultural productivity to enable pompous feudal
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