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Women weaving baskets for morning offerings.

What is Bali?

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

Bali is so many things- great food, friendly people, brilliant stars, rejuvenating massages, fascinating monkeys, gorgeous flowers and perfect weather.

Destinations: Bali | Indonesia
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Literature | Women & Travel | Animals | 20th Century History | Traditions | Ecotourism | Culture | Economy | People | Photography | Religion | Beaches & Resorts | Nature | For Kids
Little girls greet me as I enter an elementary school in Bali.

School Visit in Bali

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

I was greeted by happy teachers and friendly children when I visit a school in Bali.

Destinations: Bali | Indonesia
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Literature | Women & Travel | 20th Century History | Traditions | Ecotourism | Culture | Economy | People | Photography | Working Abroad | For Kids
Wayan, a central character in Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love prepares our meal for us

Eat, Pray, Love

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

The 'Love' section of Elizabeth Gilbert's book Eat, Pray, Love takes place in Bali. Wayan, a traditional Balinese healer and restaurant owner is a key figure in Gilbert's book. I visited her establishment in the town of Ubud.

Destinations: Bali | Indonesia
Topics: Culture | Food | People | Literature | Women & Travel
Rock Hudson is Dr. Anton Drager in The Spiral Road

Film Review: The Spiral Road

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099]

In this 1962 film adaptation of the novel by Jan de Hartog, Rock Hudson plays Dr. Anton Drager, a young doctor assigned by the Dutch government to serve out his five-year internship in colonial Indonesia.

Destinations: Indonesia
Topics: Culture | People | Literature | Religion | Performing Arts | 20th Century History
Typee, by Herman Melville

Girls with Flowers in their Hair

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

Review of Herman Melville's Typee

Destinations: Indonesia
Topics: Literature
Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter in Paradise Road

Film Review: Paradise Road

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099]

Film Review: Paradise Road by Celeste Heiter   How silent is this place The brilliant sunshine filters through the trees The leaves are rustled by a gentle breeze A wild and open space By shrubs...

Destinations: Malaysia | Indonesia | Japan | Singapore
Topics: People | Literature | Performing Arts | 20th Century History | War & Conflict

Islamic superheroes invade Indonesia

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

Jabbar the Powerful, the alter-ego of teenager Nawaf Al-Bilali, is the first of 99 superhero characters in an Islamic culture-based comic book series called "The 99" just launched in Indonesia...

Destinations: Indonesia
Topics: Literature | For Kids
Dani village in the Kurulu area, Baliem valley, Papua Barat, Indonesia

Baliem valey's mummies

Carlo Ottaviano Casana - cocasana [40]

Wim Tok Mabel's mummy held by one of his descendant. Apparently the mummy is 362 years old. Wim Tok Mabel was a "big man" and everybody in the valley wanted his advices. Even nowadays somebody is...

Destinations: Malaysia | Indonesia | Singapore | Hong Kong | Mekong River | Cambodia | Laos | Burma | Indochina | Maldives | Thailand
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Literature | 20th Century History | Art | Photography | People | Religion | War & Conflict | Ancient History | Animals | Traditions | Ecotourism | Culture | Food | Working Abroad | Architecture

No Feast Lasts Forever

ThingsAsian Booklist - tab [1,449]

Title: No Feast Lasts Forever Author: Madame Wellington Koo with Isabella Taves Publisher: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1975 ISBN: 0812905733 Details: hardcover, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", 313 pages,...

Destinations: Indonesia | Jakarta
Topics: Literature

Pico Polo

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

In the late 1980s, author Pico Iyer embarked on an Asian journey with the purpose of discovering to what extent Western - and especially American - culture had impinged on the cultures of the newly...

Destinations: Nepal | Bali | Indonesia | Tibet | Tokyo | Manila | Hong Kong | Mumbai | India | Lhasa | China | Kathmandu | Thailand | Japan | Philippines | Bangkok
Topics: Travel | Literature
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