Indonesian Places

Hi Folks,

We experienced great contrasts in Indonesia. Below is a pictured of Jakarta, the capital. It is an unbelievably congested city. The day we arrived Utun picked us up at the airport and we drove through the city 20 miles to his home. It took 4 hours, thats right-5 miles per hour. City streets in Chicago at rush hour are like the German autobahn by comparison.

Next to the city picture is a photo of rice fields which are beautiful and all over the countryside. The picture of Brian is taken in Borobodur, a massive and impressive Buddhist temple built about 1300 years ago. On the island of Bali we saw many rather ornery monkeys. This one got someone's shoe, I had to hold on to my glasses to keep the monkeys from stealing them. Also from Bali are a picture of the sunset over the ocean taken near our hotel there and a photo of one of the two Balinese dances we saw.

Indonesia is huge, it is the fourth largest country in the world, and we only saw a small portion of it. As you can see from these photos it is a different world from the U.S. We are glad we went and really loved the people who were the friendliest people we have ever met in our travels. But we are also happy to be back to the world we are more familiar with.

Brian and Ruth