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Lombok: Guide and Field Experience Everything you need to know about Lombok after 1 month on the ground: real budget, areas explored, comparison with Bali, and in what conditions this island makes sense. Introduction Lombok is often presented as a calmer alternative to Bali. That’s partly true. But this island offers much more than that.…

When you travel for a long time in Southeast Asia, some experiencesgo far beyond what you’d imagined at the start. The Pasola, on the island of Sumba in Indonesia — an island located an hour’s flight from Bali, but twice as large and a hundred times less touristy —clearly belongs in that category. On March…

I hadn’t planned to stay two and a half weeks in the Tetebatu area. At first, it was just a stop. A rural area at the foot of Rinjani, known for its terraced rice paddies and forest walks — not really a village in the dense sense of the word, more a scattered cluster of…