Travel
Post Merapi Eruption: New Hope & a New Tourist Attraction in Yogya
By: Reyhard Matheos Ngatinem, a middle aged women, waved to us to visit her small bamboo made “warung” that sells bottled water, jaddah tempe (a traditional local...
Cambodia Highlights
By: Willem van Gent Our ―and most visitors’ ― first destination in Cambodia is Angkor Wat, the famous temple complex. It is advisable to buy a three day-ticket, ...
A trip to Karang Aji, or, my rocky journey to the waters
By: Beatrice In the first pages of what is considered by many to be a classic American work of fiction, Herman Melville elaborated on the human race’s eternal love...
So You Think It’s Hot? A Hotlist of Favorite Manado Recipes!
By: Reyhard Matheos Manadonese are a proud people and one thing they are proud of is their very very hot food. Whenever they cook fish, pork, bat, dogs (yes it’s...
Climbing the Less Well-Known Peaks of Indonesia
By: Daniel Quinn As editor of the not-for-profit hiking website Gunung Bagging, I have spent the last few years exploring countless mountain peaks – both famous and...
Spirits of the Bokor mountain, Cambodia’s Mountaintop Casino
By: Willy van Rooijen At the beginning of the last century, the French built a hotel and casino on top of the Bokor Mountain in the south of Cambodia. Today, the...
JUNGLE FEVER IN JULY: Sarawak’s Rainforest World Music Festival
By: Antares THIRTEEN YEARS have elapsed but the euphoria hasn’t evaporated. The euphoria of being transported to a different world for several days – a world of...
Little India, Singapore’s Most Colorful & Least Sterile Corner
By: Cher tan If anything, Little India is arguably the only place in Singapore which feels out of place in sterile Singapore. The feeling is palpable once you are in...
Introduction to Northern Sulawesi
By: Dalih Sembiring The provinces of North Sulawesi and Gorontalo make up most of the Minahasa Peninsula, the northernmost arm of Sulawesi, also known as the island of...
Economy Train
By: Reza Daffi I live in Yogyakarta. Not long ago, Nick, an Australian friend of mine who stayed in the city for several months, told me he was going to Jakarta, the...
