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November 16, 2012:White Crater near Bandung Indonesia

The day before Martha's wedding, she provided car and driver and Erna provided the tour. What a day!! Getting there - starting at 6:30 and winding our way through traffic

Closer view of the crater and lake

A typical Bandung morning

nov 16 0916 bandung morning

Nice early morning sun bath for the homes

nov 16 0919 bandung morning

Looking west

nov 16 0922 bandung morning

A typical scene - wall to wall vehicles - traffic moves at about 5 km/hr - literally

nov 16 0931 morning traffic

Another view

nov 16 0936 morning traffic

Out into the countryside - rice fields

nov 16 0948 rice fields

And rice field workers

nov 16 0955 rice field workers

Mosque

nov 16 0960 mosque

Now about 2 hours later - at White Lake - filling an old volcanic crater with a sulfur-like something. Steaming off in patterns I can't figure out

nov 16 0978 white lake crater signs

Little peaks of sulfur

nov 16 0984 sulfur evap

The sulfur lake

nov 16 0986 sulfur lake

With a reflection

nov 16 0997 sky reflections

I have a new lens - 50mm f/1.8 and I'm going to try it with all our ladies. Here is Erna and her sun glasses. Nice reflection of me in her sun glasses

nov 16 1013 erna reflection

My reflection

nov 16 1013 my reflection

Hwee Hwee

nov 16 1023 hwee2

Ellen

nov 16 1037 ellen

Sulfur Haze

nov 16 1048 sulfur haze

Hwee Hwee and Sundy

nov 16 1065 hwee2 sundy

Sulfur haze

nov 16 1068 sulfur mist

Minjie and Wan Zhi

nov 16 1078 minjie wanzhi

Sundy and Hwee Hwee

nov 16 1083 sundy hwee2

Sulfur mist

nov 16 1113 sulfur mist

Sulfur Mist

nov 16 1120 sulfur mist

A fun family - pre jump

nov 16 1137 family

A jumping family

nov 16 1138 jumping family

Sulfur mist

nov 16 1153 sulfur mist

Erna - thinking - about the next adventure - past tea fields

nov 16 1199 erna

A tea field. In India (near Coimbatore, I've seen tea fields but did not notice the geometry of the paths

nov 16 1215 tea field

These tea fields simply enchant me

nov 16 1266 tea field

Another field

nov 16 1270 tea field

Next destination - another lake, without sulfur

nov 16 1348 lake boats

Hwee Hwee and Sundy thinking

nov 15 1352 hwee2 sundy toys

The lake

nov 16 1358 lake

Hwee Hwee and Sundy

nov 16 1360 hwee2 sundy

The man with the goreng machine (frying machine)

nov 16 1366 fry man

Fry man

nov 16 1370 fry man

Another view

nov 16 1372 fry man

Vendors

nov 16 1376 vendors

Reflections

nov 16 1388 reflections

Sundy and the lake

nov 16 1401 sundy lake

My Team

nov 16 1402 my team

Erna

nov 16 1418 erna

Erna

nov 16 1420 erna

Fry man

nov 16 1421 fry man

And Minjie found me a nice Argiope

nov 16 1422 argiope

Smoke man

nov 16 1429 smoke man

And more tea fields

nov 16 1450 tea fields

Another

nov 16 1455 tea field

And another

nov 16 1459 tea fields

And another

nov 16 1463 tea fields

And another

nov 16 1479 tea fields

Back in Bandung - and traffic

nov 16 1484 bandung traffic

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