Sun and Fun

Wow, it’s been a while I posted here something last time.)’_’(

There has been quite a lot going around, but I’ll post just that what I have pictures about. J

Already some 4 weeks ago, we went for my first time, by the see – to place called pulau seribu (thousand islands). It was amazing to see sea after more than two months I had already been here.

Even if had to really “suffer” to get there. J To save some rupiahs, we decided to take some kind of big fishing boat and to get there we had to wait in a really, really smelly harbor. Actually the harbor was even as smelly as we were not able to take a single picture there.. J

But it was worth, because than after a few hours of sharing boat with many local people and animals J, we got a really cool island, and than rented a boat and were just wandering around and enjoying different snorkeling places and islands… Woooooow, gorgeous…

This is how it looks when somebody goes to sleep too early. J

There was a side effect that even sunscreen with a factor 50 didn’t manage to keep me from being burnt totally on all my body. J But again it was worth. J

Than a couple of weeks after, I went to see another volcano, this one even still active. :) So quite popular is for example boiling an egg down there. Did you know that there are around 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia, far more than in Czech, right?

And also during the same day we went for the evening we went for a hot spa close by. It was really impressive - all the local people sitting there in rather dirty water, all of the girl wearing cloths instead of swimming dress and some even wearing veil (the Muslim cover of a head). That place had an atmosphere.

Last really interesting was wedding. It’s fun – here the groom and bride invite their friends and they invite their friends and even if friends of those friends come it’s okey. :-D So an average person if he or she is a wedding freak, than can go to almost one wedding every month. J Here are pictures of a typical Sundanees (West Java region) wedding. They have a lot of funky traditions - feeding the bride and groom by different family members or themselves, tearing a chicken to see who is gonna be more dominant or broom breaks an egg by stepping on it and than bride washes his feet. Soooo sweet. :-p

There was more, but I don’t want to post too long posts, so I’ll let you know later. ;)

Thanks for reading..

Martin