We spent 7 weeks bouncing around Indonesia in September and October of 2017. This series highlights some of our favorite experiences.
Diego and I finished up our time in Northern Sumatra at Lake Toba, the largest lake in Asia, learning about the Batak people. This is the first place where I wish we could have spent more time. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t practical to change our ongoing travel arrangements. Lake Toba is culture rich and peaceful…
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This adventure began with off-roading and ended with elephants! We only spent one day in the village of Tangkahan, but it was a day we won’t soon forget. The Road to Tangkahan John told us about the plight of the Sumatran elephants while we were in the jungle. Another victim of Indonesia’s extreme deforestation, fewer than…
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Diego and I spent about 7 weeks in Indonesia. It seems impossible to share every experience with you, but let’s begin at the end on the rugged island of Sumatra in the jungle of Gunung Leuser National Park with our quest to find the “orang hutan” or “people of the forest.” The Republic of Indonesia…
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Diego here. I’m flying solo in Jakarta today and decided to explore the fascinating world of Javanese Wayang, the centuries-old Indonesian art of storytelling through puppeteering. The best way to learn about this is visiting the Wayang Museum in Jakarta. I am a storyteller by nature so I was very interested in learning more about…
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