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After being served coffee on the terrace by my hostess, I descended into the village for a first exploratory walk, filled with curiosity. On the beach, I was greeted warmly by young people who were just as curious as I was. With their western T-shirts …
In a remote fishing village on the Indonesian island of Lembata, the inhabitants have been subsisting on whaling for over 6 centuries. Prior to my trip through Asia, I read about the place and it’s people who are possibly the last to hunt marine mammals …
If you search the Internet for pictures of the small town of Kuta, which lies on the coast of the Indonesian island of Lombok, you will find dreamlike coral beaches with a turquoise sea. This is quite true, but only at high tide. At low …
The Indonesian island of Java is rich with volcanoes, the most popular by far is Bromo, a rather small but quite active crater in the middle of the Tengger massif. It is immediately recognizable by its broad plume of smoke, which makes it look ominous. …
From the start of my year-long trip through Asia, I mutated into a passionate early riser. After I had woken up my first morning around ten o’clock, jet-lagged, on the island of Bali with the tropical heat almost knocking me back into bed, I decided …
On the western Indonesian island of Flores, life is much quieter and more primal compared to the better known islands of Java, Bali and Lombok. In the center of the island is the land of the Ngada, an ethnic group, some of whose members still …
At a funeral of the Toraja on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, several buffaloes are traditionally sacrificed. The people of this tribe believe that the deceased person will be accompanied and protected by the buffalo souls during their passage into the afterlife. When I was …
The cultivation of seaweed (in Indonesian: Rumput Laut) is traditionally an important source of income on the small island of Nusa Lembongan, which is located in the south of Bali. Tourism has pushed that branch of the economy further and further back in recent decades. …