Window to Indo, July 2012

A selection of images from my trip to Java and Sulawesi in July. This was not my first time to either place, but they are both visually fascinating, as well as rewarding for the great coffees we have sourced here. Be warned that a few photos from the Sulawesi funeral Pesta are gory.

Robusta

Robusta is still an important coffee crop, although you don't see much of it in the higher areas...

Kopi Sunda

An old type of Typica coffee found in the area, might be an original coffee brought by the Dutch...

Inputs

In a local village shop, an abundance of fungicides and insecticides for the crops....

Snack Break

This guy was selling bags of brightly colored rice gel and coconut goo - it was beautiful but...

Tempeh

Sunda diet, which is quite healthy. I didn't even know that tempeh was originally from Indo.

Early Morning Saturation Java Sunda, about 2 hours from Bandung, terraced rice fields against jagged peaks in the first...	Home on the Terraces A house surrounded by rice in Java Sunda, in the morning light.	Distant Peaks to the North Java has much active vulcanism, and the dramatic mountains that crown the horizon act as a...
Hauling Coffee Down the Hill On Foot In the Pacet area, coffee is carried on foot, or motorbike, down narrow footpaths	Rice The key staple of the area, the entire

Sunda area is a breadbasket for the large cities near by...	Covered, Raised Bed Drying Drying under shade, which is gentle and uses air as well as solar heat to dry the coffee.	Ghost fish The aesthetics of Sunda life are appealing, with gardens and ponds a part of the household. This...
Visitors at night Evening guest in the bedroom, quiet and non intrusive, although I was told they will pee on you...	Papandayan Volcano, Java Sunda In what is becoming a tradition, we walked up to the Papandayan cratar. Coffee grows on the...	Sulpherous formations at Papandayan The steam vents form unique sulpher crystals at Papandayan