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The Manggarai Spider Web Rice Terraces
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 12 January 2012
After four and a half years in Asia, I really thought that we had seen just about every conceivable form of rice terrace known to man. From the Dragon’s Backbone in China to Nepal’s Annapurna Circuit to the terraces of Northern Luzon – I thought we had seen it all. Apparently not. The Manggarai tribe [...]
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The Flores Hobbit
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 10 January 2012
Our first stop leaving Ruteng was the Liang Bua cave, which made headlines around the world in 2003 for the discovery of tiny Homo floresiensis, otherwise known by the media as the “Flores hobbit”. Since their discovery, the bones of H. floresiensis have been the subject of intense scientific debate: does this population of three-foot-high [...]
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Heavenly Accommodation
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 8 January 2012
Who would have thought that overnighting in Ruteng’s convent, Kongregasi Santa Maria Berdukacita, could be a highlight on its own. Not so much for the spiritual pleasures, I might add, but rather for the earthly ones. Our first HOT shower in five weeks in the Catholic nunnery-slash-hotel has almost made me a believer. The super-clean [...]
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A Tight Corner
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 1 June 2011
Eating cold fried eggs and soggy white bread in the convent, under the scrutiny of a spreadeagled plastic Christ and an increasingly baleful Pope, Z and I await the return...
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The Great Hot Springs Disaster
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 31 May 2011
The rhythms of life at the convent in Ruteng do not encourage sloth. The sisters start their day early, in their cells up the hill, and long before dawn, according...
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We Stay With The Sisters
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 24 May 2011
“Let me explain the rules,” says the young, smiley nun, jiggling the world’s most-indulged baby who’s balanced on her shoulder. “We close the gates at 9pm every night, so you...
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Day 700: The Ruteng Clan
Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 3 December 2010
30.11.10: Seven HUNDRED days on the road!! Bloomin’ eck. After dragging myself out of bed at 6.30am, I wasn’t too chuffed when I was told that the minibus to the next waypoint, Ruteng, didn’t leave until 8am. But no sooner had I settled down under a bamboo bivouac at the side of the road to drink coffee [...]
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