Hiking to the active volcano in Indonesia Have you ever thought about visiting the active volcano? The volcano is the living evidence of the life of the earth. As a science-minded person, I was always wondering what would it like to see the exploding lava from the mountain top. Maybe that’s why places like Hawaii […]
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Introducing Borobudur Temple Borobudur temple is a Buddhist temple in central Java. The name Borobudur is from the Sanskrit words biara and bidur. Biara means temple and bidur means hill; temple on the hill, it means. It was built around the end of the eighth century but it took three generations to finish it. During
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As traveling two weeks in Indonesia, I got to see the major attractions around the country. While I was visiting nine different islands, these were the first impression I got. Have you been to Indonesia? What do you think? There are many islands Roughly, there are 17,000 islands Indonesia. 8,844 of them have been
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Mount Bromo, A Spectacular Indonesia Mountain Winter jacket, gloves, winter hat, hiking shoes, and hiking pants; we were prepared to see the sunrise. Even in Indonesia, we have to prepare for the low temperature when we’re 2,000 m high up from the sea level. Hiking up to Mt. Pananjakan was a lot harder than I
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How much do we know about orangutans? Recently I visited orangutans at Camp Leakey run by Orangutan Foundation International (OFI). The long history and inspirational work of OFI touched all of us. I’ll tell you the story in another post. First, I wanted to share the photos of amazing orangutans. It’s hard not to appreciate
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