“Country of thousand Islands” Indonesia in colorful pictures. Photo

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«Страна тысячи островов»: Индонезия в колоритных снимках. ФотоA country with unusual nature.

Rice terraces, towering palms, atmospheric fog, hides the mountain peaks and small villages on the slopes of the shores of lake Maninjau, the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Paradise on earth? Maybe…

1. We started our hitchhiking trip in Hanoi, Vietnam and got to Indonesian Sumatra. Around lake Maninjau put up a tent right near the water, on the outskirts of the village. And already the first evening these places I really seemed a Paradise.

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2. Rice fields here are located not only on the slopes of the mountains but in the plain, where the terraces as there are none. The field is only aligned in a horizontal plane, from-for what there are small differences in height.

A lot of fields, they occupy all available space coast not occupied by housing. Now rice just juice, fresh herbs really enlivens the surrounding scenery.

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3. The farther from the coast and up into the mountains, the conditions for agriculture are difficult. But the local — hard-working people cope.

Met on the path of children coming from school. The surprise was mutual.

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4. In the villages — a classic for these places houses with gabled roofs.

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5. Some peoples sense of beauty as if in the blood, and sometimes it seems that all these simple people, the peasants, have design education ) is So beautiful their homes and surrounding their way of life. The feeling I had in Norway, same in Sumatra.

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7. Buffalo with such beautiful brown eyes I saw for the first time ) Only such and have to live in Paradise.

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9. The population is almost entirely Muslim.

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10. Although there might be natives of China.

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12. Water goes everywhere, flowing streams from the mountains, and it just spread over the terraces and gardens. It flows continuously, day and night, provoking a rapid growth of vegetation. One has only to go beyond the village and up the mountain, as almost immediately the jungle.

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14. A characteristic feature of these places — almost all the houses in the village are built either on stilts and below the house, swimming pools with fish. Even around mosques, schools, under houses, standing high on the hillside, everywhere there are ponds with fish. The craze for fish farming! Many houses, sometimes two or three pools, do them on different levels, and water flows from one to the other cascades, creating a nice soothing sound.

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15. But all this stuff compared to the grandiose fisheries in the lake. Along the entire village, 100 meters from the shore, is a fish farm. Every day, from early morning until late afternoon, on the jetty, watch the people, the lake is constantly back and forth to float little boats, in which sit men in conical straw hats, and rowing with one oar.

One of them I swam over to his fish farm, almost drowned ) the Boat is so precarious and unstable that even just sitting in it is not easy, one wrong move and you’re in the water:

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20. The cultivation of rice — work really hard. No idea what might grow! And it grows…

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23. On the banks of Maninjau evening comes, the fields are empty, people rush in the mosque and at their homes, flying over a lake, echoing a distant echo, drawn-out verses of the Koran. Definitely heaven on earth…

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Photos and text by Ilya Stepanov

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