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Philippines

Samar River Crossings

Northern Samar – Eastern Samar Small homestead on the riverbank near the seaport town of Gamay, Samar. There had been 5 days of rain bought on by a tropical depression so I was just waiting out the weather for a few days on the edge of the Pacific Ocean here in Eastern Samar. This is […]

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East Timor

kus kus

Timor cuscus – year 2006 The villagers of Makaleb were getting ready to stew these 2 little marsupials so I decided to attempt to buy them and take them to my friends place in Pante Macassar on my motorbike. Phalanger orientalis (timor cuscus) Timor Cuscus in Oecussi – pardon the misspelling kus kus – ha […]

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Bali

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Indonesia

Irian Jaya – Papua Barat

Irian Jaya – Papua Barat There is some political tension in Papua Barat because of an independence movement by some of the Papuans. The whole transmigration thing annoys them. The island of Java has a fairly high population so the government transplants Javanese throughout the island network of Indonesia to ease the population pressure at […]