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HANG OUT WITH THE DEAD

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Trunyan Island, Boat ride from Danau Batur Pier

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Not easily scared by ghost stories? Try to test your courage on the island of death in Bali. The people of Trunyan (unlike the other Balinese communities) neither cremate nor bury their dead. Instead, their bodies are left to rot in bamboo cages under the watchful eye of a fragrant tree that (thankfully) masks the smell of decay. Intrigued to meet corpses from hundreds of years ago?
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