Last fall one the specimens of Amorphophallus titanum flowered in the Bogor Botanic Garden. Of course, by the time the Jakarta Post had managed to report that it was happening and we went along to take a look, the flower was looking a little droopy! The titan arum has the largest inflorescence in the plant [...]
April, 2009:
Gunung Rinjani (3,726 m)
View at Picasa 09-Apr-2009 16:11, Canon Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, 8.0, 6.2mm, 0.004 sec, ISO 80 Climbing one of Indonesia’s highest mountains is a good challenge. At 3726 m (12,224 ft) Gunung Rinjani dominates Lombok; it is active, with a huge crater lake where there is a new cone that last erupted in 2004. [...]
Lombok Part 1: Gili Islands
View at Picasa 07-Apr-2009 12:57, Canon Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, 2.8, 6.2mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 80 We finally managed a holiday in Indonesia where neither of us were sick, unless you include Gill being seasick while snorkeling off Gili Air (this particular incident involved Andy mistakenly swimming through the floating carrots and wondering what [...]