Kalimantan Villages & Views
Central Kalimantan Days 5-6 Right now, as we motor in the early morning toward our final dock in Samarinda, it is pouring hard rain. I am on the top deck… Read more »
Author Archives: Varya
Mahakam River
East Kalimantan: Days 3-4 I am on a houseboat on the Mahakam River and can hear at 4:25 am the call of the Muezzin to prayer in this solidly islamic… Read more »
Kalimantan Jungle Time
Day 2: Monkeys and Apes Encore The great joy of being at one of the three orangutan feeding stations is watching the great red apes swing in from high tree… Read more »
Pangkalanbun & Orangutans
I am under my mosquito netting at 3 am with jet lag at the comfortable Rimba Orangutan Eco Lodge, surrounded by deep jungle and a river. Yesterday with very… Read more »
Kalimantan Indonesia
There was one very off-the-main-track travel destination I wanted to visit and given that my age only increases, it seemed like this was the time to do it. So… Read more »
Inside Iceland
Reykjavik As you have read in the news, the tremors are numerous now in Iceland although we only felt a few of them as most are undetectable but the excitement… Read more »
West Iceland
Earth and Horses: Day 6 After a very extensive buffet breakfast, Pavel and the 5 of us head out on our last day together to the nearby Grabrok volcano crater…. Read more »
North Iceland
Water and Fire in the North: Day 4 Northern Sights: Day 4 It is early in the morning when I awake and decide to go out for a walk in… Read more »
South and East Iceland
Glaciers and Beaches: Day 2 The wonders of today’s drive include the great Mýrdalsjökull ice cap which we are told covers the most feared Katla volcano which violently erupts every… Read more »
Iceland Viewpoints
Reykjavik Reykjavik is a big city by Icelandic standards — as there are only 375,00 in the whole country and 140,000 people in Reykjavik. And then consider a tourist… Read more »