Within a couple days of getting back from Hong Kong, it was off to Indonesia for 5 days starting April 13th. Bandung is the an industrial city in the volcanic mountains of central Java, full of textiles and gorgeous views. I was as excited as a little school girl when we got off the plane and it was only 85 degrees, almost chilly!
We had a great guide, who took us to the large museum built by the dutch in the 1700s. To our joy and wonderment, it was school field trip day!! One thing I never really thought about is what a museum filled with 500 school age kids from rural indonesia would think of me. To give you an idea, your average indonesian male is probably 5'5" and 150 pounds soaking wet. As I'm sure you know, I'm just a tad larger than that. There seemed to be upwards of 20 schools there, and within a few minutes, I started getting nervous requests in Malay for photos. Cutest kids I've ever seen, but I suddenly found the everyone was soon more interested in taking photos with the behemoth Matseleh (white guy) than the nearby science exhibits. The rest of the morning at the museum consisted of an unending series of pictures! Everyone else seemed to find the whole thing hilarious, and the guide said a lot of these kids were from bused in from areas where they had probably never seen someone my size....
After this it was off for 4 days of shopping and some side trips to see the country side. We visited a couple of the volcanic craters in the surrounding mountains, and drove through some amazing scenery full of terraces and tea plantations.
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