Walking on

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.”
Ellen DeGeneres

Batam Island

I made a trip with my family to Batam island, which is in Riau Islands Province of Indonesia, last weekend. The 415 km² (160 miles²) island has a population of 713,960 in December 2006[1], most of whom are Malays (85%) and Chinese (14%). A few indigenous Orang Laut tribes also live on the island. Click [...]