Malaysia - altogheter
November 24, 2010
For an unparticular reason I never felt attracted by Malaysia. I postponed any occasion to travel this country, but looks like the time off doing it came and almost ended. Maybe because of the unparticular reason mentioned above I was somehow not too much impressed by the places I’ve seen. Of course three weeks is […]
Singapore and The Non-Chewing-Gum concept
December 1, 2010
Believe it or not, this is an old story already. You are now allowed to buy chewing gum in pharmacies in Singapore. Well, only that kind of therapeutic value is allowed, but still. If you never heard about chewing gum ban in Singapore, here it is on Wikipedia . I really like this one “Chewing […]
Toba - La Bomba
December 10, 2010
When the super-volcano in Toba erupted 70000 ago, nobody thought that its the crater will be such a relaxed place like it is now. There are some reasons why, maybe. 70000 years ago nobody really took care about 2010, and the volcano killed most humans then alive on earth. You like it or not, but […]
In Orange
December 19, 2010
Not everybody here seams to agree that “orangutan” comes from “orang” , meaning “person” in Indonesian, plus “hutan” meaning “forest”. Not sure why. For me that’s pretty obvious tho, and I’ll go ahead with this assumption: they are the people of the forest. A legend says that orangutans are smart, so smart that they never […]
Kopi Luwak - where it comes from?
December 19, 2010
Searching for Kopi luwak was not a success. Yet. The search was not intense at all and each guy in town seams to have a different opinion about where to find it. On the other hand, the more you search the more disappointed you get if you can’t find. We are in Banda Aceh now, […]
Weh island time
December 30, 2010
Island time Weh island, known as Sabang among the locals, is an active volcanic island in Aceh region in Andaman sea at the northwestern side of Sumatra. It used to be part of Sumatra, but became separated after a volcano eruption, long long time ago. Not very touristic or developed yet, with colorful and very […]
Filtering, the real shit
January 1, 2011
What are the chances to get a good cup of coffee ? Firstly you need some good coffee, roasted with style and then some other details can mess it or make it the perfect one. Next comes the atmosphere and all environmental details. Back to the kopi luwak, we were still asking ourselves if the […]
72 days after
January 11, 2011
72 days after its eruption, mount Merapi hides in the clouds. Impartially, it redesigned its surroundings. Then killed more than 350 people: buried alive or burned by hot ash and lava. 350000 people were evacuated at that time but the situation is not OK, yet. The soil is still burning, secondary impacts are in the […]
Bali Hai
February 24, 2011
Bali is left behind, since one month already. It is better like this, posting the Bali stuff after digesting it for some time. Being there I was somehow overwhelmed by too many tourists, to many shops, coffee shops, Italian food restaurants , “genuine ” handcrafts and so on. That’s how Bali looks, at a first […]
The land of dragons
March 21, 2011
Tens of pictures from Nusa Tenggara, literary the South East Island , the home of many wonders. Komodo dragons, colorful volcanic lakes, giant bats and much more. With the last being the new Homo floresiensis, those bemo and ojek drivers across the island of Flores. There are many theories why Komodo dragons can be found […]
Waiting for the sunrise
March 22, 2011
Some images more, from Timor Leste. One thing I cannot clearly get when comes about south east Asian cuisine: where is the cheese? Where are all dairy products? It intrigues me much more, since there are a lot of cattle around. Being in a country where food is such a problem, as Timor Leste […]
Local series - off season
April 10, 2011
Couple of weeks ago I watched “The Cove”, a documentary about a place in Japan where dolphins are slaughtered using a very precise and efficient procedure. Somehow strange to head to Lamalera right after. Lamalera is a small village where locals hunt whales and dolphins, but hunting them here is not banned by any international […]
No more headhunting
April 10, 2011
some pictures from the last leg of our trip… There was a human skull on the flat stone near the northern beach of Kepa Kecil, but that tourist took it as a souvenir. That was about 15 years ago. Fifty years old locals still remember those times when fellows villagers were fighting the other village […]
Timor Lorosae - the movie
August 5, 2011
A quick edit and here are almost all videos we took around Timor Lorosae. Nothing special, just dropped them in .. chronological order. (Visited 415 times, 1 visits today)
The batak and the music
August 9, 2011
Are bataks born with the gift of music or it is just a side effect of drinking tuak instead of water? I met this 8 years old kid , not spoiled by tuak yet, and he shown me that his talent is in his blood since he is young, drinking tuak being actually the side […]
Bali, the movie
August 28, 2011
This is it, I glued together some videos I took in Bali. A bit of temple dance, a bit of cock fighting, gambling games played inside the temple , green rice fields and the creepy music of those big bamboo wind flutes. Available in full HD (Visited 467 times, 2 visits today)
Snorkeling with kids
December 7, 2015
Just a bit before turning three years old, Vlad went real snorkeling and enjoyed real fish and corals by his own. Of course he was using a proper floating costume, some safety string and was closely supervised. Here are some images and a short video. I cut short a longer video, here: After Vlad was […]
Elephant in da house
December 15, 2015
Through the morning mist on the river, the boat coming from downstream made its approach. The two boatmans swiftly exchanged hand signals, then ours turned the long and narrow boat towards a tributary of Kinabatangan river. By now we knew that if a boatman is making the ‘cupped ears’, that ‘s a sign for encounter […]
When sun goes down in Bali
December 17, 2015
It is about dusk and Matahari, the eye of the day, is hiding behind the volcano. It is too hot for six thirty in the evening and I feel like this day is abruptly ending too soon. On the hilltop above Jemeluk bay, the same group of people is gathering once again. It is not […]
The living dragon
December 27, 2015
When the group traveling thousands of kilometers just to see the dragon heard the ranger telling that they will maybe not see the reptile in just one trip, they exploded in rage. They were just burning their shortest-in-the-world vacation, spent a lot of money for traveling to Komodo and just bought the newest expensive cameras, […]
The hunt
April 3, 2016
Back in 2011 I wrote a story, impressed then by the impact of modern days on the hunters’ village of Lamalera. Despite some anachronistic mixture of new and old stuff, they seemed to resist in their traditions, still. They did it before anyway, when they were given a modern whaling ship. Ship they were abandon […]