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Bali and Lombok – Tourist Paradise and Real Life Experiences in One
Blog: The 4 Season Travel Blog - 23 June 2009
Bali and Lombok is in many ways Asia’s perfect summer travel destination. While Thailand goes through their rainy season over summer, Indonesia actually has it’s dryest months from May to September.
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Favorite Food From Traveling the World, So Far
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 19 June 2009
One of the best things about traveling is food. Dave and I seem to plan our days around our meals. We wake up in the morning and while we are eating our breakfast, we discuss what we are going to have and where we are going to go for dinner. We love food. Food makes us happy. And when we discover new and delicious food, well, we are in heaven.
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Show me the way to go home…
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 3 June 2009
By Zev Lowe, KF8 Indonesia Watch as Jemy, the Kiva Coordinator at my host MFI, Dinari Foundation Bali, takes me on a nail-biting, jaw-dropping white knuckled ride home. This video is just one minute long, but the actual journey took half an hour. *** Zev Lowe started work at DINARI Foundation today. He recently completed his MBA at [...]
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Is a Kiva loan really interest free?
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 1 June 2009
By Zev Lowe, KF 8 Indonesia The US dollar has recently risen significantly against many currencies. When I arrived in Bali to begin my Kiva Fellowship with DINARI Foundation, I received 10,295 Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) for each of my US dollars. This is 10% higher than a year ago, when the US dollar was worth 9,350 [...]
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Welcome, Kiva, to West Timor!
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 6 April 2009
West Timor is the country equivalent of Robert Downey Senior. The usual reaction is “West Timor? I didn’t know there was a West Timor. But I’ve heard of East Timor so I suppose it makes sense”. And indeed it does make sense, especially if you live here. West Timor, formerly a Dutch colony until it was [...]
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Jungle Sanctuary
Blog: Curves and Levels - 14 March 2009
We were on the great, fabled island of Sumatra, having been carried across from Malaysia with great speed on a loud, smoke-belching passenger boat, now heading inland about 75 kms. as a crow might fly west of Medan or about three hours uphill by rough road into the rainforest at the southern boundary of Gunung Leuser National Park.
