Astounding Pulau Jawa

  JAVA ISLAND, INDONESIA

 

 

 

Leaving Bali by sunrise

 

 

 

 

Reading the newspaper…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buying batiks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yogyakarta’s local market

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Somewhere off the beaten track…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Hitting the roads of Java

Interesting facts about Indonesia:

- the 4th biggest population on earth, with over 250 million people - 742 languages - the world’s largest archipelago: 17.508 islands (11.508 of which are inhabited) - the most populous island: Java (estimated 140 million people) - largest Muslim nation in the world, with over 220 million Muslims (88% of the total population); other religions include Christianity (9%), Hinduism (2%) and Buddhism (1%). - Indonesia incorporates 10% of the world’s forest cover and has some of the worst deforestation rates on the planet (every year, an area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland is lost) - most diverse: Kalimantan is one the most biologically diverse places in the world, with twice as many plant species as the whole Africa - the country in the world with more active volcanoes: 129 - the biggest lizard: Komodo dragon (the largest specimen having measured 3,1m) - the largest flower: Rafflesia arnoldi - the longest snake: the reticulated python (measuring up to 10 meters long)