Generally, travelling foreign countries and visiting its tourist sites is like the following all over the world: you go there, say ooooh and aaaaah, look at the beauty and take some pictures.
Not so in Indonesia! You go there, and everybody else is taking pictures of you!
Like for example at Borobodur, the buddhist temple we visited near Yogyakarta. As soon as we have climbed up the thing in the afternoon heat and reached its top totally exausted and sweating, a small local girl, apparently visiting the temple with her parents, approached us to take some pictures of us with her.
Even when we decided to take a rest and leaned against the temple walls, locals took pictures of us with their mobile phones when walking by. What the hell? Am I something extraordinary to look at? Or even freaky in their eyes?
At another occasion, when we took the ferry to Bali, we have been asked by a local family to be photographed together with all its family members...seperately!
In total about seven pictures with three different cameras.
And these are just a few examples...crazy people!
I'm even thinking about printing a t-shirt that states something like "it's okay, go ahead and take your photo. It's just one buck each".
That can finance my whole trip... I really have to turn that plan into action!
My only relief is that Cisela is even more often asked for a picture by somebody. Which leaves me standing aside smiling and enjoying the situation! ;-)
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