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We are currently on another island called Sulawesi. We flew from Flores to Bali for 1 night, then here.
The valley we are in is called Tana Toraja, witch in the local language (not Indonesian) means land of the hillbillys! The local people have huge funeral ceremonys and sacrifice’s lots of water buffalo! they dress up in these really cool beady outfits and sing and dance. The houses they build are really amazing too, they have huge curved rooves and ornate wood carvings. There are quite a few tourists here. There is also amazing plants and animals: as many dragonflys as there is flys in Australia, at least triple the amount of butterflys and millions of frogs! Some are smaller than than the fingernail of my littlest finger, and some bigger than my hand!There are lots of Cacao trees and Cofee bean trees too.
Because there are mainly French tourists around here the local kidds you meet say ” halo, bon-bon?” (whitch is “halo, lolly?” in French) so then you give them a little tofee thing and they go mad and shout: DUA, DUA!!!! withch is Indonesian for “TWO, TWO!!!” its cute. Yesterday was natinal independence day for Indonesia. There was lots of marching in the street and people celebrating!
We have been in Flores for the past 12 days . On the first we went to an island called Rincha ( 1 of the only 2 islands in the world were the Komodo dragon exists) . We saw about 10 of the dragons they where quite scary, but very lazy! We then made our way up to Bajawa were we went on a tour and saw how they grow cacao bean coffee bean and vanilla bean! It is a very mountainous place.Yesterday we climbed a mountain called Kelimutu.Up the top were 3 different colored lakes, one was bright aqua! The other 2 were brown and dark black , in the rainy season they can also be red! Tomorrow we fly back to Bali then to Sulawesi.
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