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These pictures were taken during our stay in Indonesia:

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  Typical Indonesia:

Typical village house

Downtown housing

A fisherman's house

Village mosque

Village school

A well stocked shop

Vegetables in the market

Tomorrow's dinner

Local transport!

Becaks for hire

Boats at low water

Village on stilts

Waterfront residences

Taxi rank in Lombok

  The locals:

  Local Activities:

Boat building

Boat building

Fishermen

Street vendor

Bringing in the vegetables

Selling vegetables

Cooking

Dish washing

Washday

Drying clothes

A palm spirit still

A palm spirit still

A seaweed farm

Carrying seaweed

Drying seaweed for making cosmetics

Gathering nutmegs

Coconut cutting

Pounding cocunut

Basket making

Boat Boys Labuan Bajo

Hindu temple maintenance

Women working in Hindu temple

Paddy field worker

Farmer

  Boats:

A racing canoe

Fishing boat

Fishing rafts were everywhere

Local water transport

Propeller shop

Repairing the single cylinder engine found on most boats

A klotok ( Kumai houseboat)

  Ceremonials:

Independence Day flag raiaing

Independence Day marching

Independence Day band

Independence Day singing

Independence Day plaque signing by Sail Indonesia participant

Sinking the plaque in 15 metres of water

Minister's Investiture

traditional headress

Village welcomer

Village welcomers

Meeting the village elders

Skipper's award presentation

Sail Indonesia "marching" prize

Lombok ceremonial dress

Lombok welcome

Lombok ceremonial fighting

  Traditional Dancing:

Tanimbar

Ambon

Ambon

Wakatobi

Lombok

Bali Barong dance

Bali Barong dance

Bali Kecak dance

  Banda:

Straits between the islands

The anchorage

Entrance to a dutch fort

Dutch fort

Dutch defences

English teacher selling old coins to fund the local school

Colonial style hotel

Drinking cold beer

Gathering nutmegs

Nutmegs

Drying nutmegs

Becaks

Rainbow over the anchorage

  Bali Hindu Temples:

  Animals on Rincca:

Komodo dragon

Komodo dragon

Komodo dragon

Komodo dragon

Komodo dragon

Komodo dragon

Komodo dragon footprints

Water buffalo

Water buffalo

Wild boar on beach

Longtailed Macaques on the beach

Longtailed Macaques on the beach

Deer on the beach

Fish Eagle

Fish Eagle

Fish Eagles

Manta Ray

  Animals on Kumai:

Wild orang-utang feeding

Wild orang-utang proudly showing off her young

Camp Leakey Alpha male "Tom"

Camp Leakey Alpha male "Tom"

Camp Leakey Alpha male "Tom"

Camp Leakey Alpha male "Tom"

Camp Leakey Alpha male "Tom"

Camp Leakey Alpha male "Tom"

Camp Leakey Tom's mate

Camp Leakey male "Uranus" greets us

Camp Leakey mother and young

Camp Leakey young male "Percy"

Wild proboscis monkeys

Wild proboscis monkey

Wild gibbon

Wild gibbon

Wild boar

 

  Other:

Bathing in a hot spring

Banyan Tree

Perfect beach shells

Statues found in a poor village!

Shoe soles melted by the heat!

Bali Panier bags!

Lombok carving uncensored!

Paddy fields

Paddy fields

A tame fruit bat in Bali

Butterfly in Bali butterfly park

Insect in Bali butterfly park

Insect in Bali butterfly park

Big spiders in Indonesia

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