THE IMAGES OF KALIMANTAN
SYNOPSIS: Mainly photos today. :-)
I am giving myself a little break writing. Instead, I will compile two photo essays on the images I will take with me from Kalimantan. Much may have been lost in the Dayak culture (headhunting, for one, will not be missed!). But there also was much to see and many wonderful people live there. In the first set of images you will see glimpses of daily life as I observed it from my boat. People washing clothes, bathing, buying petrol in plastic containers, preparing fish in various ways, and just socializing.
Through the second set of images, you might get a better sense of the living conditions. Colorful, tiled homes often signify a more prosperous family. Wooden structures and tin roofs indicate poverty. Mosques were always a striking difference (a step up from the surroundings) just like medieval churches must have been.
See you back in Java.
