Indonesia

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!