1:30 am – middle of the night. In a simple wooden, mountain shelter we are getting ready for an expedition to the crater of Ijen volcano. A petite, swarthy guide dressed in a windbreaker and rubber boots hands us masks with air filters. The post-nuclear world accessories cause mild heart palpitations. An expedition leader is […]
A tiny mountain village. A patch of asphalt only occasionally appears on the narrow streets. The rest is covered in gravel and sand. A lush greenery of the bare corn plants stretches in front of the old but charming stone houses. The fruits, arranged in neat stacks, dry off in the sun just next to […]
“Where are the oranges?! Faster, faster! I can already hear them! They entered the office!” a nervous commotion is going on between desks filled with laptops. “You got them? OK, great. Put them here, high on the partition. Otherwise, he won’t see it and won’t peel.” the last instructions on the strategic location of the […]
“Two! Two dollars for a box of biscuits! Ten lollipops for fifty cents!”, a peddler from the stand at the alleys intersection outshouts dozens of others around him. “Dried squids! Smoked fish! Half price!”, booms a loud voice from the other end of the street. Tight groups of potential buyers, dressed in various shades of […]
7 pm sharp. Holding a basket overflowing with oranges – symbols of prosperity and good luck – we knock at the doors of an HDB flat. Wearing a red dress Kasey, with a warm smile invites us inside. The moving carpet, called by the household ‘a dog’, frantically runs around. “This is my dad, my […]
About 500m from the southern tip of the main island of Singapore lies its smaller neighbour – Sentosa. These five square kilometres are the national playground of Singapore. Locals call it ‘The State of Fun’. The island is divided into five main parts: north-western ‘Sentosa Cove’, northern ‘Resort World Sentosa’, central ‘Imbiah Lookout’, eastern ‘Siloso […]
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