Sidemen night market

While staying in the mountain region of Sidemen (on the island of Bali in Indonesia), we heard there was a festival in the nearby town of Semarapura one evening, so we took a trip out. By the end of the evening we still weren’t sure what the celebration was, but like many Indonesian festivals, families… Continue reading Sidemen night market

Here be dragons

Rinca Island, Komodo National Park

They don’t breathe fire, they don’t have wings, but they are most assuredly dragons! And just as the medieval mapmakers wrote “here be dragons” to indicate unexplored, possibly dangerous territories, so walking in the territory of the Komodo dragons can certainly be dangerous!

Horizontal bubbles and mantas!

Manta Point Komodo

We first visited the island of Flores in Indonesia in May 2017. We dived in the eastern area near Maumere, then hired a car and driver and took a week to drive east to west to Labuan Bajo, the town closest to Komodo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve.