A Bukittinggi evening
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Fast food dinner stalls
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Nasi Goreng (more)
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Tonga (more)
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Mt. Merapi
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Mt. Singgalang (more)
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Remains of a Dutch fort (info)
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Bukittingi rooftops
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Jl Ahmad Yani north
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Jam Gadang (Clock tower)
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Statue of Imam Bonjol
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Jl Ahmad Yani south
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Bukittingi museum (1, 2)
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Dadia Campua, local dish
(fruit, yoghurt, oats, jaggery)
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Minankabau wedding set
and attire (more)
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Sumatran elephant in zoo
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Pasar Atas, a Vegetable and Meat Market in Bukittinggi |
Mounds of dried fish (1, 2)
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Dozens of species
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Dozens of stalls
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Dried fish seller (more)
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Freshly killed & live fish
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Just point and buy (more)
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Assorted seafood
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Hello visitor
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Women run lots of stalls
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Brisk business
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Quartered sting ray
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Fish eyes staring at ya!
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Red meat section
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From a kill this morning
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A choice cut?
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Assorted innards
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Cow boots against the wall
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Severed leg
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More cow boots in the sun
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Assorted innards
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Fowl for sale
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Pick the fattest bird
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Chicken's endgame
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Slaughter and quarter
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Ducks in a sack
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Skinning fresh killed chicken
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Produce seller
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Heaps o' snacks
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Vegetables (more)
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Heaps o' chillies
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Chilli paste
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Grinding chillies
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A traditional Minangkabau Dance Performance |
12 lively dances performed
to
energetic music
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At Medan Nan Balinduang,
a cultural center in town
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Peragaan Penganten,
(with
a wedding couple)
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The bride
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Tari Pasambahan
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Tari Pasambahan
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Tari Bagurau
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Tari Bagurau
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Aluang Bunian
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Tari Indang
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Tari Indang
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Tari Piring
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Day Trip 1: East and South of Bukittingi |
House on a plantation
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Avocado (tree)
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Cinnamon bark (tree, sticks)
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Chillies
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Cheekoo fruit
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Cacao pods (tree)
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Drying cacao beans
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Holy cacao!
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Cloves (tree)
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Lemon grass
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Soybeans (Squash)
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Eggplant
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Basil (Tulsi)
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Turmeric (root)
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Our guide (middle) with
one plantation's owners
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Plantation owner
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Yellow hibiscus
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Poinsettia
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Coffee mill, water powered
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Grinding coffee beans
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Fish farms in the village
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Woman working
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A Minangkabau home
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Padang-style lunch for two!
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A family at lunch
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Sanskrit in pallava script
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600-700 years old (1, 2), (from
kingdom of Adityawarman)
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Meeting Room (more)
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Giggly girls
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Queen's house (front, back)
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Ceremonial drum
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King's palace (being restored
after 2007 lightening fire)
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Rau-Rau Village
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Minangkabau design
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Typical rooftops
(former rice store)
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Papaya
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Inside a home (exterior)
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Bollywood fans here!
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Room adjacent to kitchen
(more)
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Kitchen (doorway to it)
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Another house
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Another interior
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Kitchen fire on sheet of iron
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Modern Minangkabau house
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Average village house
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The inheritance of women
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Another old house (1, 2)
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Women in the village (more)
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School teacher (more)
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Pausing for a smile
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Two boys
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Schoolgirl
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Balimbing village house
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Another house
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Village scene
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Rice paddies near Balimbing
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Rooster
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Lake Singkarak (more)
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Kids having a *great* time
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Soursop fruit
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A small river
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Rice paddies (1, 2)
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Water intensive crop
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Terrace farming
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Handicrafts souviner shop
in Pandai Sikek village
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India-inspired dresses & designs
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Young weaver
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Wood carving
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A typical big mosque
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Day Trip 2: West of Bukittingi |
Koto Gadang village
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Koto Gadang street
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Meeting House (more)
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Close-up of wood carving
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Fruit bats (1, 2)
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Filigree silverwork
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Landscape w/ village (more)
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Roasting peanuts
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Lake Maninjau (more)
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Volcanic lake (1, 2)
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Fishermen (1, 2)
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Caldera formed 52K years ago
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Minangkabau house
overlooking lake (1, 2)
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Mid-afternoon light
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Rice fields by the lake
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Rice and coconuts
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In a volcano's caldera
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Rice - almost ready
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Long-tailed monkey
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Weaver-bird nest
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Making (unrefined) sugar from sugarcane |
Fresh cut sugarcane
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Big juicer
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Boiling in large vats
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Sugarcane husk is fuel
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Thickening juice
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Off the fire
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Poured into cups
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Unrefined sugar (jaggery)!
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