Even in daylight, it looked like a Dantesque circle of the inferno. 200 to 300 meters below us, on the edge of a tranquil turquoise crater lake, steam spurted into the air drawing sulfurous vapor…
It is almost impossible to see Candi Borobudur (Borobudur Temple) entirely from any vantage point. Though only seven levels high, each level is quite wide. On each, a two-meter walkway passes between panel after panel…
George, George, George of the Jungle Lives a life that's free. George, George, George of the Jungle, Watch out for that tree! Turns out that this silly lyric from a long ago animated TV show…
Unusual geopolitics in the early 60s led to the political division of Borneo island into three slices. The biggest piece of the pie, southern Borneo, became part of Indonesia. A much narrower slice running along…
High up in the treetops of Taman Negara National Park (literally National Park National Park), you can bounce along a series of narrow rope walkways amid primordial rainforest. Built as a tourist attraction, it's the…
Coming to Singapore was a shock to our systems after six months in India. We booked nearly a week here as a form of R&R, thinking the city would be some kind of needed relief…
After a few months touring the length and breadth of India, we gained a good idea of how the cities look and how the daily life works. We know generally how to find the supplies…
Entering the huge rectangular courtyard in Jaipur is like coming into a small walled palace, which would not be surprising in a town like this with old and new palaces all around. A low gate…
"What are you doing here?" asked the father of three, a software engineer for Microsoft from Pune, Maharashtra. He was not threatening us or anything like that, but just astonished we were staying at this…
This is the third set of profiles of people we have met in India. In this post, meet two people for whom language differences made little difference. (For the previous profiles, click Profiles 1 or…