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...earthquake that registered 8.7 on the Richter scale. Unlike the quake that struck in December, this one did not create a devastating tsunami. But in Nias, just 70 km from the epicenter, death and destruction were instantaneous. "Everything happened so fast," says Nasima Zai, 42, a shopkeeper in Gunung Sitoli, Nias' largest town. Nasima was in bed when her house started to shake. She woke her husband, grabbed their two young children, and tried to make it down three flights of stairs. Floors and walls collapsed, the lights went off, and the family found itself trapped beneath the rubble. Relatives...
...Gunung Bromo, Indonesia, 2,392 m It may be an easy 30-minute hike from car park to crater rim, but Bromo's frequent rumbles and gaseous emissions serve to remind visitors not to take this giant too lightly. Time your trip to Java's famed volcano for the dry season (June through October), and clear skies should afford stunning views of the surrounding Tengger Caldera. Sunrise watchers should start out at 3 a.m. from the nearby town of Cemoro Lawang, and cross the Lautan Pasir?the sandy plain at the volcano's base. From here, a concrete staircase leads...
...will help you acclimatize to the thinner air; and, for safety's sake, consider hiring a local guide who knows the route and can read the mountain's moods. With that checklist complete, all you need to do is choose your summit. Here are four of our regional favorites: Gunung Bromo, Indonesia, 2,392 m It may be an easy 30-minute hike from car park to crater rim, but Bromo's frequent rumbles and gaseous emissions serve to remind visitors not to take this giant too lightly. Time your trip to Java's famed volcano for the dry season...
Knott has studied these animals for over 10 years in Gunung Palung National Park on Borneo, Indonesia, which is home to about one tenth of the world’s orangutan population. They are the world’s largest exclusively tree-dwelling mammal, and they have the longest birth interval—only giving birth every eight years...
...believer is supposed to take food or drink from sunrise to sunset. But as Ramadan ended, the religious fasting in large parts of Indonesia had become full-scale famine. Parched by drought, the rice crop in Java had failed; in Bali, last year's eruption of the Gunung Agung volcano had buried two of the island's largest rice areas under volcanic ash. In central Java, an invasion of rats, many 18 inches long from head to tail, had decimated rice stores and created a serious threat of bubonic plague; in east Java, local extermination campaigns have already...