A S M A T --Traditional Cloth

ASMAT --From Behind The Lens

A S M A T --Go to The Future

Learning is a long process that begins at an early age, in every place and occasion and do not know when to end. The long process that will usher in a human child step into the future. A period invisible these days but can be prepared until the time arrives to give the best that has been prepared

A S M A T --El Nino 2015

Smog

Sun Behind The Fog

Ground Cracked

Looking for The Water

ASMAT --SHCULPTURE BIS PARTY

ASMAT --The Red Twillight

HA LONG BAY, VIETNAM

UNESCO World Heritage Site inscription: 1994

The trip from Hanoi, the capital city of Ha Long Bay Vietnam to cover around 165 Km distance through the slippery roads paved. Along the way seemed motorists wearing a bamboo hat, carrying livestock and crops. At some point looked craftsmen developed a ceramic from basic ingredients powdered chalk, and fields stretching up finally to breathe scented sea salt. The journey is long enough certainly tiring, but a variety of restaurants serving a variety of culinary prepared hot and delicious, of which sea food is pureed. Around the crowded restaurant hawkers pearl trade with all foreign tourists both domestic mupun. Pearls were white and dark, strung into a bracelet or necklace in a variety of models, offered at a price fluctuations through bargaining. Hawkers pearl receiving Vietnamese Dong and the US dollar, the currency that applies to all transactions in Vietnam.

Ha Long Bay is one of the tourist destinations in Vietnam, precisely located in the Gulf of Tonkin, Quang Ninh province, in the northeast of Vietnam. This tourist destination has an area of ​​43,400 ha and Including over 1600 islands. Various hotel class ready to open the door, from the understated class inn, medium to post modernism style building towering starry. Less likely to visit Ha Long Bay without a stay, because the positions are quite far from the capital. From the terrace storey hotel, the sea looks beautiful sapphire blue, the atmosphere around the quiet, away from the boisterous roar of a motor vehicle. Nightlife available also in this place, tourists who enjoyed the nightlife opportunity for relaxation by listening to music and dancing.

The morning after sufficient rest, a traditional-style ferry and guides have been waiting at the dock. While waiting for certainty bergeraka ferry mothers pearls hawkers returned to the tourists, offering a variety of models strand pearl necklace and bracelet. Transactions take place in sign language as well as English in broken or through a pertejemah to reach an agreement. Except tourist destination Ha Long Bay is a pearl, jewelry that symbolizes sincerity. When preparing the oncoming ferry, all hawkers pearl leaving immediately for sell  jewelry on another ferry.

In the first minutes of the ferry moving, the atmosphere seemed normal, nothing special, except that the foaming waves in the wind whistling. Travellers who passed waved a friendly smile even though we did not know each other. While the small boats seem drove, loaded contains tropical fruits. The wind grew louder.

A few minutes later looked small islands without inhabitants overgrown with tall green trees. The farther the ferry moved small islands appears more and more with a similar but not the same shape. In the distance the islands appear as faint mist shrouded in mystery. When the ferry approached the mystery that still surrounds the thousands of other islands, far away. The entire passenger ferry struck. The islands are numbered about 1,600 pieces, it looked as if emerald stones scattered over a vast blue cloth. Beautiful islands that seemed inexhaustible, gradually becoming more common with hills towering high. Each traveler is busy snapping the camera to capture images as evidence, we've got this amazing place.

Finally ferry stop on an island that is most great, we trooped down to watch the different natural wonders. Cave is very big and long that has been built systematically to the weather condition. A long hallway artificial nature it finally came to an end, the open sky which provide cool air. Some merchants selling souvenirs, handicrafts of shells, pearls, keychains, stamps and postcards. We can not linger in this place. Ferries to wait for a return trip.

Fatigue treated with dishes, sea food, vegetables, fruits and fresh drinks are processed by an expert taste too tasty, hard to pronounce. We sampled each menu without getting bored to stomach felt tight and then back up to the deck to see the splendor of nature that is rarely encountered in other corners of the world. Blue sea and thousands of islands scattered mist-shrouded. Such destinations in Indonesia are in Raja Ampat, Sorong, Papua. But I settled in Asmat nearly 20 years have not even been to the island chain except the pictures strewn across social media.

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ASMAT --The Amazing Fambrep River