Local series – off season
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…
No more headhunting
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…
The land of dragons
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,…
Bali Hai
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…
72 days after
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…
Filtering, the real shit
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. …
Weh island time
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…
Kopi Luwak – where it comes from?
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…
In Orange
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…
Toba – La Bomba
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…