I've only just started posting again after being away for 3 weeks in Indonesia with my son.
I managed to bring back about 250 snapshots and video clips, so thought you might like me to share a few.
24 miles outside Bandung city on the island of Java is Tangkuban Perahu volcano. The stink of sulfur is everywhere and almost nauseating in some places. Eggs cooked in the boiling waters of the crater taste pretty good after a long trek into the center of an active volcano

If you want to gauge the size of the crater, consider that there are people walking across the ridge on the far side and you can't see them in this picture

When a volcano erupts and pours its pyroclastic flow through a village it doesn't leave much behind, and when it does it at 2.00 am it takes a lot of people with it

Borobudur Temple, built around 800 AD is 25 miles from Yogyakarta on the island of Java. It is the worlds biggest Buddhist temple and it's in the middle of the worlds biggest Muslim population.

Rob and I stopped to get our pic taken by a local 3 levels below the top. The Stupas (domes) in the pic are made from blocks carved out of volcanic stone, there are 72 Stupas and each one contains a stone carved Buddha statue.

To walk to the top of Borobudur the way the original pilgrims did it would add up to a bit over 4 miles, meditating on 2670 carved stone panels as you went. It takes a few hours to do it without the meditation and if you ever get the chance to do it, TAKE A HAT, I didn't and the result was painful.
