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  • Let's see - Wooden building and a big flame - mmmmm

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    • Time moves on and old tech becomes less popular, just as these old fashioned rice cookers have become a poor seller, but there's still a small market for those without electricity and people who want a back up when the electricity goes off.
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      • Isn't that interesting about the travelling optician.
        Love all the pics in this thread.. been meaning to get to Bali for eons and sadly missed out this past summer. This thread gives me some hope that I will get to go someday! Great pics! What do you do there if you don't mind me asking?

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        • Originally posted by vendetta4real View Post
          Isn't that interesting about the travelling optician.
          Love all the pics in this thread.. been meaning to get to Bali for eons and sadly missed out this past summer. This thread gives me some hope that I will get to go someday! Great pics! What do you do there if you don't mind me asking?
          Thank you for your kind comments.
          I used to work as a teacher, my subject being English conversation and culture, but I left that this June for a variety of reasons, mostly because I didn't like where the school was heading.
          I left without a job to go to but soon got offered some interesting work with an NGO, that being what I'm doing at the moment. Most is from home but I'll be doing quite a lot of travelling as well (if all goes to plan), so hoping to get snaps from much more of Indonesia. The work will keep me busy and I'm planning a tight schedule in order to save money, but I'm hoping to get a few hours wandering around in each place.
          Bali is on the list

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          • A pedicab is known as a bacak (Baychack) and they come cheap, cheaper if you crowd in - poor driver





            Some bright dude has made these kids' versions


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            • There are lots of ways to make money (even if it isn't much), one is to trade in gold on the street


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              another is to strap yourself into a cart and collect rubbish (The stuff and the salary)


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              • Most small villages have a extra school where kids do religious studies but they don't tend to be high tech, not exactly set up with interactive whiteboards and a sound system ... but this one has a cat.





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                • ^Those pedicaps are beautiful, and the people look absolutely lovely. Are they as friendly as they look? Hey, a school is a school is a school.. as long as there are children ready to learn (and a teacher).

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                  • Originally posted by vendetta4real View Post
                    ^Those pedicaps are beautiful, and the people look absolutely lovely. Are they as friendly as they look? Hey, a school is a school is a school.. as long as there are children ready to learn (and a teacher).
                    I'm very happy to report the vast majority of Indonesians I've met are lovely people, usually very friendly and welcoming. A few have been bloody horrible, but that's a tiny minority I can count on my fingers without using any toes.
                    As for the school, it's a religious one designed to teach Islam, usually a moderate version intended as a life guide, but a few teach a nasty version based on extreme ideas originating in Saudi.
                    Happily, not many.

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                    • This is the Keraton Kanoman, a once proud seat of kings that would ride on on elephants for their official duties, but now a lesser known tourist attraction surrounded by a market and a few other places of lesser interest. There are several palaces in the area, but this one is easily to most difficult to access by car so is ignored by most. Seems that was a deliberate act by the Dutch in an attempt to reduce the Sultan's power and influence.
                      The majority of the structures were built in 1678 by the Sultan of the time but the oldest house was erected in 1430 . Oddly, this seat of Islamic learning also has a church, the guide claiming the bell was donated by none other than Raffles. They say it still chimes midnight every night without fail.











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                        • Street rubbish collectors don't make much, and commonly have nowhere to call home.


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                          • Disabled crossing?





                            It's very common to overload poorly serviced lorries - Straws and camels' backs?


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                            • Yep, these actually go on the road - There are motorbikes, or at least engines and all the bits needed to make these lumps of junk move.














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                              • Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell would be proud his movement is still so active in Indonesia.


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