Although this card has been sent from Indonesia, the card is actually from the UNESCO site Shirakami-Sanchi in Japan. The card was sent by Jennifer and it shows one of the Ammon Falls.
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Situated in the mountains of northern Honshu, the area includes the last
remaining virgin stand of Siebold's beech forest, the typical Japanese climax
temperate forest. The area covers about one-third of the Shirakami Mountains
which are a heavily dissected range with summits rising to just over
1,200 m. - in: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/663
This site was included in the list of World Heritage Sites in 1993.
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