It was quite easy to familiarize ourselves with the Indonesian language, at least as far as the culinary art is concerned. Several simple words, such as nasi (rice), mie (noodles), goreng (fried), rebus (cooked), bakar…
Posts tagged Sumatra
Jungle boogie in Sumatra
Even though over the last thirty years Sumatra has lost more than a half of its tropical forests, its still home to an astounding number of plants and animals, many of them critically endangered. Some…
Cooking with Nora – Indonesian cuisine on Sumatra
Our next destination was Bukit Lawang, one of the last remaining sites for wild orangutan spotting. The jungly Gunung Leuser national park is slightly commercialized, with tourists bringing both money which sustains the park and ilnesses which threaten the…
Poopie luwak!
While travelling through West Sumatra, we are excited by everything that grows, flowers or bears fruit. As far as the edible world is concerned, we have already spotted (with a little help from the guides)…
Welcome to Ricky’s Beach House
We left behind the chaotic and hellishly hot cities of Java and moved to the less populated and more wild Sumatra. And right away we’ve found ourselves in heaven. Authentic Sumatra is an ecoturism project…