did you know that bananas grow "upside down"? new to us! and sometimes people cook and eat the large red flower hangin' under these green bananas
this spider (about the size of Major's palm!) was eating breakfast when we passed by and snapped his picture
transport via river. we briefly walked through a community where these river boats are made, often by family-owned and -run businesses.
mud farming? ... groups of men fill the boats with the fertile mud from this river; others fill the baskets and load them onto men's heads; those men walk up the bank and drop off the mud in a holding area, where it waits to be loaded onto trucks and shipped to other, less-fertile areas of the island.
coffee cherries ripening on the bush. ironically, Java is a huge exporter of coffee, but most people here drink instant coffee. hmmm
like hot? try these peppers, served "on the side" of several dishes... small bite of pepper, large bite of food
many, many foods are fried. here we see a "sampler" platter at a cafe near the coffee plantation we visited. fried cassava, fried banana (yum!), and fried veggies
duck herding? actually, yes. the herder is hidden behind the vehicles, but will take these ducks to feed in a certain area off the road... is that the ugly duckling I see there in the middle? he looks a little different...
