A Little Education: Profiles of India 4
This is the fourth set of profiles of people we have met in India. In this post, meet two people for whom education becomes a mixed blessing. (For the previous profiles, click Profiles 1 or…
Cathedral Rock vortex
Vortical Feats: The Attraction of Sedona
Over 5000 of them, archaeologists believe, thrived in the high and low valleys between Flagstaff and Phoenix, places that people even today consider receptive to good, supernatural vibes. Then, for reasons still unknown after about…
Stepped entrance to main temple complex, Besakih
Devotion: Hindus in Bali
Across Indonesia, there are hundreds of distinct ethnicities, languages and native cultures. For some of these, the old tribal religions remain. Most have been subsumed into the three major religions found here - Islam, Christianity…
Orangutans ready to put on the show for visitors, Tanjung Puting, Borneo
Into the Semi-wild: Touring for Wildlife
Most visitors to the wild don't want the really wild. The wild is often uncomfortable, hard to reach, dangerous and fickle. You have a few days to visit a wilderness, see the jungle, sail the…
Sulfur carrier, Mt. Ijen
Beauty and the Beastliness: In the Pit of Mt. Ijen
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…
School children preparing to interview us atop Borodudur
Stairway to Heaven: Ascending Borobudur Temple
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…
Backbone trail of Mt. Sibayak, Sumatra, viewed from crater
Calculated Risks: Three Recent Adventures
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…
Main gate, Sultan's Palace, Brunei
Where Oil and Water Mix: The Kingdom of Brunei
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…
Bumphead parrotfish, Sipadan
An Old Leaf: Wild Malaysia
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…
Petronas Towers high above busy Surya mall, KL
Shock to the System: Our Tale of Two Cities after India
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…
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