• The Euro

    Is the Euro a train wreck as some of my friends claim?

  • Kawah Ijen

    Sulphur is what it is all about. And there is plenty of it in the sulphur lake of Kawah Ijen (“kawah” means crater in Bahasa). But there is no technology in use here. It is collected the old-fashioned way, by sheer human labour, by men who are really nothing more than pack horses. Kawah Ijen …

  • Bromo-Tengger National Park

    A lot of people who know of Indonesia know of it as Bali. Indeed, one of the members in a forum I used to frequent had this in his signature – “From Bali, an island east of Indonesia”. And yet, there are plenty of fabulous places to see in Indonesia besides Bali. One of the …

  • Thaipusam, Singapore

    Revisited this photo blog after a long time and realized that I did not follow up on my Thaipusam pictures after the first one. I also seem to be going a bit haywire with this at the moment, so need to get some order into this. Anyway, here is the next image in the Thaipusam …