This is the first episode of my around the world journey. So excited to begin telling the story about travel around my country, Indonesia. Last year, @PHER a fellow traveler from France made a trip around the world in one year. When he arrived in Indonesia then he contacted me and asked whether I could join in to go around the country. Without thinking long, I agreed and for two months we traveled together around Indonesia.
Indonesia. 260 million inhabitants are unevenly distributed in half of the 17,000 islands of the largest archipelago in the world located mainly under the equator. Islands with names suggestive of wilderness (Sumatra, Borneo), vacation (Bali), explorations (Sundas Islands, Moluccas, Flores) or ethnology (Papua).
Began our journey to the extreme east of the island of Java very close to the Strait of Bali, Ijen volcano whose crater lake is considered to be the most acidic on the planet. An almost shocking back and forth between workers crushed by the weight of the loads without any protection and tourists equipped with masks come to photograph the spectacular blue flames released by the sulfur vapors visible only at night in dry weather.
Bali, the most western and undoubtedly the most visited of the small Sunda Islands, multitudes of Hindu temples and emblematic landscapes of rice terraces.
Amazing photos @hitamputih , you’re igniting my need for travelling! I’m surprised to see you has that incredible beach almost all to yourselves. I thought such an attraction would be overrun by tourists.
I guess that’s one of the advantages about Indonesia. There are so many amazing places to visit that it can’t all be crowded at once.
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