The nineteenth-century Viennese traveller Ida Pfeiffer went backpacking through Indonesia before the term backpacking was invented. Gabriele Habinger tells the story of a remarkable woman who was the first white person to travel in the interior of Borneo.
Saung Angklung Udjo, Battle Between Traditional culture vs Factory Outlet
Bandung, the capital city as a cultural sundanese, indeed, have many treasury of traditional art and culture. One of them is the art of traditional instrumental Angklung. Flutter between modernity and elegance in the form of infecting a tour of clothing factory outlets, Saung Angklung Mang [...]
This invaluable series of books on Indonesia from Periplus is gradually being completely revised and updated. Their Travel Guides have now become Adventure Guides but the changes are far more than merely cosmetic. The Travel /Adventure Guides are, as owners of any of the existing books will know, far more than just guides to travelling in the particular region covered. Travelling or not, the books are worth reading for their own sake. The historical vignettes are especially enjoyable.
In the afterword to this book, the authors state their intention: to demonstrate the richness and uniqueness of the material culture of the Southeast Moluccas. It was a laudable aim and, by any measure, they have succeeded admirably.
It was a big task. To put it in perspective, Maluku Tenggara-the Southeast Moluccas-is a remote chain of islands between Timor and New Guinea almost a thousand kilometres long. The region’s 300,000 or so inhabitants see relatively few visitors because it is so far off the tourist trail.
Taking the weight off your legs, enjoy a ride on one of Asia’s oldest forms of transport.
It is midnight in a highland town in West Java. All is peaceful. The shops, which during the day were a hive of frenetic activity, have now long shut their doors to the darkness. Street vendors, whose goods covered [...]
