The hunt
Back in 2011 I wrote a story, impressed then by the impact of modern days on the hunters’ village of Lamalera. Despite some anachronistic mixture of new and old stuff, they seemed to resist in…
The living dragon
When the group traveling thousands of kilometers just to see the dragon heard the ranger telling that they will maybe not see the reptile in just one trip, they exploded in rage. They were just…
When sun goes down in Bali
It is about dusk and Matahari, the eye of the day, is hiding behind the volcano. It is too hot for six thirty in the evening and I feel like this day is abruptly ending…
Elephant in da house
Through the morning mist on the river, the boat coming from downstream made its approach. The two boatmans swiftly exchanged hand signals, then ours turned the long and narrow boat towards a tributary of Kinabatangan…
Snorkeling with kids
Just a bit before turning three years old, Vlad went real snorkeling and enjoyed real fish and corals by his own. Of course he was using a proper floating costume, some safety string and was…
Bali, the movie
This is it, I glued together some videos I took in Bali. A bit of temple dance, a bit of cock fighting, gambling games played inside the temple , green rice fields and the creepy…
The batak and the music
Are bataks born with the gift of music or it is just a side effect of drinking tuak instead of water? I met this 8 years old kid , not spoiled by tuak yet, and…
Timor Lorosae – the movie
A quick edit and here are almost all videos we took around Timor Lorosae. Nothing special, just dropped them in .. chronological order.
Local series – off season
Couple of weeks ago I watched “The Cove”, a documentary about a place in Japan where dolphins are slaughtered using a very precise and efficient procedure. Somehow strange to head to Lamalera right after. Lamalera…
No more headhunting
some pictures from the last leg of our trip… There was a human skull on the flat stone near the northern beach of Kepa Kecil, but that tourist took it as a souvenir. That was…