All posts tagged: Indonesia
Rain has gone
Rainy skyline
They say that there is no longer a real dry season in Jakarta. It rains more or less all the year round. I was for two days in a workshop at the 17th floor of a tower in central Jakarta. During breaks we went out on a nice terrace overlooking skyscrapers and single family houses. Like the old Jakarta battling the modern Jakarta. On both days it rained in the afternoon creating a nice effect on the glass wall of the terrace. […]
Reclining Buddha in Ubud
We stayed at a nice guesthouse in Ubud, in Bali. It was a traditional Balinese house and to get to our room we had to walk a narrow alley and pass through two small yards shared by few families. One of them was an elderly couple who lived in a small red brick house. When we came back from our day tours in the afternoon, he was normally sitting under a small porch on a confortable bamboo armchair. […]
One of my pictures from Indonesia on ODI RAPID page
Check out the picture that is on the RAPID programme web page at the Overseas Development Institute. I took it in Eastern Indonesia in the province of NTT while walking in the coastal city of Larantuka. http://www.odi.org.uk/programmes/rapid
A peaceful moment in Larantuka
I have always liked to go to visit churches, pagodas, mosques when travelling. I like sitting there and observe the people who come to pay to a God, a profet, a teacher. Those are peaceful places where I think it is possible to some extent to connect and feel the presence of the belief and faith people have. Last October I was in Larantuka, on the island of Flores (Indonesia), to conduct a study on […]
A surfer into the sunset in Lembongan island
Sunsets in Lembongan island (Bali), a photo by Arnaldo Pellini on Flickr. I was in Lembongan island east of Bali. a great sunset. I walked into the sea weed garden where during the low tide sea weed farmers work. The tide was rising as the sunset time approached. I wanted to take the a picture of the canal that seemed to lead into the sun when this surfer appeared out of nowhere. He was walking […]
Meditare a Mahana Point
Raggiungo Mahana Point con lo scooter che ho affittato alla guesthouse. Sono le tre del pomeriggio. Il sole ha appena iniziato a calare e annunciare l’inizio del tardo pomeriggio. La strada per arrivare fino a qui è dissestata. Una stretta striscia di asfalto che accompagna i sali e scendi di quest’isola brulla e secca che ricorda il nostro meridione. Sembra stonare qui ai tropici, sull’isola di Nusa Ceningan non lontana da Bali. Parcheggio lo scooter […]
Guesthouses and ipads
I am in Bali with Katja, Olga and Venla. More exactly we are in Kuta, south of the provincial capital Denpasar. This is a backpacking trip. We travel with out rucksacks, stay and hostels and guesthouses. The first one is The Island Bay guesthouse. Nice open restaurant/cafè. Great pizzas. A small pool in the yard where the rooms are. There are dorms. There are single room with a large bunker bed that can easily accomodate […]
South of the Equator
First thing I check when in my room at the Cemara Hotel here in Jakarta is to check whether the water whirls clockwise or any clockwise when I pull the tap in the bathroom sink. This time I checked before leaving Ha Noi. Checked carefully in the kitchen sink and the whirl was definitely clockwise. I checked here in Jakarta, first time the water left to the pipes without any whirl (too much water or […]