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The Last Frontier of Javanese Rhinos

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When Krakatau volcano in Sunda Strait nearby the Java island erupted in 1883, its roars said to be heard from Rangoon in Burma to Perth in Australia, whilst its pumice was towering until 26 km...

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Sundanese Traditional Bathing Ceremony

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I just arrived in this beautiful city for few days to visit my relative families here after more than twenty years not seeing each other. When one of my relatives asked me to accompany her to attend...

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Grand finale: bride and groom at the final and most formal ceremony.

Javanese Wedding

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We have a large window and look down into two - crocodile ponds. At least 20 huge beasts hang out there on mud, slime and concrete.

Fried cockroaches and other yummy crawlies are in no short supply either.

For another dinner we visit the Apsara Theatre, an oasis of calm and friendly.

This is decidedly not a poor village. The houses look very orderly, some have cars parking out front. Still it's a dirt road, three kids share a bicycle to get to school and the odd oxcart rumbles along.

As we walk through the outer gate, there they are: hundreds and thousands of tourists hang out on every ancient stone around, everyone swinging at least one camera, eagerly awaiting sunrise over Angkor Wat.

Lots have built up tripods. And it's even more crowded at the temple front lake. There plastic chairs await and locals scream around offering breakfast coffee.

It's the crowds. Ever new packs of Koreans stomp into the compound, they clog every stair and passage.

There is no relaxed promenading because you are constantly hassled by beggars, taxi drivers and restaurant touts and the elegant buildings and arcades disappear behind billboards and signs advertising cheap bus rates, free Apsara dance or ADSL internet.

And the traditional Khmer sour soup with chicken and lemon grass tastes like water. "Even our maid does it better", shrugs Norah.

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