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Join me on a pre-dawn climb to Kawah Ijen in East Java, Indonesia, where blue flames flicker across the crater and the mountain appears to burn blue. At two in the morning, we climbed into darkness. The mountain seemed asleep. Only the crunch of volcanic gravel beneath our boots and the occasional beam of a headlamp broke the silence. Around us, the night swallowed everything. Then, without warning, the earth began to… Read More

Photo by gang liang – Majestic stone carving amidst lush tropical jungle in Bali, Indonesia Wherever I travel in Indonesia, I notice them. At first it was just a curiosity. Statues on street corners. Another outside a home. Then more standing quietly in courtyards, tucked beside doorways, watching from temple gates. Some draped in cloth, some dusted with offerings, some so weathered they seemed older than memory itself. They are everywhere. Photo… Read More