Not real leather How old are you? I can't believe you've never seen a car with leather on the roof. In the seventies, there were loads of them . In fact, I owned one. Though not until the early eighties. It's not real leather, it's vinyl. Real leather would rot if it was wet all the time. Which it would be in England, let's face it.
Interesting similarities Your tales and pictures of Peru remind me so much of Tibet that I have a lump in my throat. OK, so they're both mountainous, I'll grant you and I guess that the similar environments caused similar ways of life for both animals and people. But it's strange that the people actually look simliar. The Tibetans do not look like the Chinese who have invaded their land from next door. They look like the Peruvians who have lived for thousands of years in a land so like theirs, but on the other side of the world. Hmmm.
Local cuisine I also like to try the local specialities. OK, you got me on the Alpaca (and the Guinea Pig, of course!) but I have eaten most of your list and have one you don't. I have eaten Yak many times, including Yak Burger, which I highly recommend. You strike me as a Steak man. Yak steak is excellent, too, though rather tougher than the burger!
My attempt to procure scorpion in China failed, though. A plate of scorpions is expensive and my Chinese was not good enough to obtain just one to try with a promise to buy a plateful if I liked it. Ah, well.
Dogs Yep, I had a reaction to my first rabies jab so couldn't have the second.
So what's the first thing that happens when I get to rabies-ridden Tibet? I get bitten by a dog. Nice. Fortunately this was in Lhasa and it was the cleanest, healthiest dog we saw in Tibet.
Later, I was attacked by a pack in a Mountain Monastery we were staying at. Once bitten, twice shy. I put the boot in hard and fought the bastards off. Score one for the humans!!
Bees Knees Beeswax is produced by bees in the form of tiny scales which are "sweated" from the segments on the underside of the abdomen. To stimulate the production of beeswax the bees gorge themselves with honey or sugar syrup and huddle together to raise the temperature of the cluster. To produce one pound of wax requires the bees to consume about ten pounds of honey.
You are so lucky!
This is time,I envy you I always wanted to go there!!!!
Is it true,that you can find some vending machine with girl knickers inside that school girls leave there and that dirty old men by from the machine!?Some one told me this once,and I always doubts it?
Did you see any?
xxxxxEnjoy!
Coming soon to a low-cost airline near you... As you probably already know, Scandinavian Airlines have recently retired all their 27 Dash Q400s due to unreliability, so when Merpati Nusantara, Adam Air, Sriwijaya and all their friends have run out of 737-200s and 727s to crash this might be an affordable and welcome addition to their fleets.
I took an active interest in flying around on domestic airlines during my stay, circular daytrips is my specialty which was difficult to set up in Indonesia. I think the next time I come back I will allow for some overnights as well to really open up the possibilites.
Btw, I love that random facts list... ;)
there are clock in UK airport!
Hi Pete,
Nice to see you are still having a great time...I am almost 100 %I saw some clock in Heathrow ,Gatwick and Standead!
xxFrancoise.
welcome I have been following your blog, it is very interesting. Iam Indonesian living in Sydney. I would like to recommend you to go to Sulawesi- tanah Toraja to watch their unique funeral proccesion and go to Bira beach and also floating village in sulawesi as well, also go to Papua to see the primitive locals. I think you should try scubadiving too. how bout joinning 3 days cruise around Komodo island too.
well too many places to go actually , please enjoy while your are there, but watch your belongings and don't trust them about money.
Food Porn! Loving the blog your so funny, and i must say eating is more than a hobby, its a religion. at least it should be, we could all be foodists. Anyway keep up the food porn!!
Well.... It might get dark in a few hours and you wouldn't want to walk down the volcano in the dark. You might hurt yourself, have a nasty fall or something..
Nice experience, I'm Indonesian and I feel that we don't respect the earth just like you do. Only few of us consider to keep the earth clean and green. Visit my blog: "Discover Indonesia"From Blog: A true life tsunami story as told by Uncle Bill
Pangandaran Beach Really enjoyed reading about Pangandaran. I visited there in September 2000. Agree about the food- just fabulous.
Thanks for the update about the tsunami. I post on many Indonesian forums and will put up the link to your blog. Pictures of Green Canyon brought back lots of memories. I, too had a swim, but did not jump bravely like you did.
Pamela.
Miles
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