Morning comes to Tugu
Morning, 5am. Tugu Macan, Sumatra, Indonesia. I wake to the mosque's loud broadcast of morning prayer. The singer's deep vocal resonance vibrates through the closed door and stone walls. I lie in a small, hard ...
“On the road through Indo” diary entry 1
We head for the jungle. Up and up we go on the only road out of Padang toward the village of Tugu Macan. The one lane - narrow, uneven, mostly made of dirt or stone ...