Rounded off the last year with an invigorating walk through Sentul, outside Jakarta, with a few friends.

The rains hadn’t been too heavy, so the muddy paths were dry and easy to walk through. It’s amazing how you can be out of Jakarta and within an hour there’s no sign of city. Of course, I don’t even have to enter Jakarta every day. Just stay on the toll road, and bypass the Big Durian to get to Sentul.

We saw tapioca being processed:

 

 

Rambutans ripening on the trees:

 

All kinds of farming:

 

 

 

And a unique ‘scarecrow system’, where bits of plastic and fabric are hung all across the fields, connected by twine – you pull one end and everything flaps about noisily to scare birds away:

 

Kids bathing in the river:

 

Laundry drying:

And the grasshopper had an eyeful of us:

 

There was a welcome waterfall after the exercise:

That made a cool pool into which we waded ‘coz we were armed with swimsuits.

No, you don’t get to see THAT photo!