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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]