Boarding the longboat in Balikpapan, Borneo.

Borneo’s Smoking Skulls and the Sacrificial Swine: Dancing for the Dead in a Longhouse

By S. Bedford I expected certain quintessential experiences while backpacking in Indonesia. Publicly embarrassing myself while surfing in Kuta Beach, for instance, or losing my sunglasses to a furry fiend at the Monkey Temple in Ubud. What I did not foresee was winding up dancing in a death ceremony in a longhouse on the island…

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Maldives by Seaplane

Flying and Boating into the Maldives By Anupam Chanda As the aircraft took off from Trivandrum I realized I’d left back my sunglasses at the Bangalore hotel. The kind of glaring overexposure I was headed to needed protection for the eyes almost all along as long as the sun was up. Its quite amazing how…

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