Atmospheric perspective. Munduk, Bali, Indonesia. 2010
Posted by razzbuffnik on August 11th, 2010
This is the view at sunset from the restaurant terrace of the hotel we stayed at in Munduk (the Munduk Sari Villas).
Looking west from Bali into Java, this scene looks down across clove plantations, then through the Bali Barat National Park, over the Bali Straight into Java with the Raung and Ijen volcanoes in the background, nearly 100kms away.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:47 am
I grew up looking over a layered seascape of 2 different nations’ islands and mainlands while sitting in Canada and staring at the U.S.A … and thought it all very similar at a distance.
But now I realize that it is very similar … except for what people think … and imaginary bordering off of areas.
August 12th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Ross
It is all the same. The more I travel, the more I think that the idea of nationhood is such an artificial human construct.
August 14th, 2010 at 8:46 am
Hellooo! You are home with a sunset photo and NO shame-based excuses for taking it. Yea! It’s hauntingly beautiful.
August 14th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
nationhood, yet another “great” European invention… I still remember how surreal and artificial the border with Austria seemed to me when I was a child, that one part of a meadow would be “in the West”, and the other “somewhere completely different”.
August 15th, 2010 at 3:28 am
Pat
Thanks.
Yep I’m back, but it would seem catching up on various things has delayed my posts and comments and visits to other blogs. I’m hoping to be on top of things by Monday and get back into my “normal” blog activities.
Grass
When I was travelling near the border of Bosnia and Croatia, I remember thinking to myself that it’s not a good idea to live near borders in Europe.
August 16th, 2010 at 7:26 am
A beautiful image, razzbuffnik. And the discussion here makes me reflect on the American obsession with walling off it’s southern border, as though one section of the desert is so much different than the other. They say it is to keep those others out, but it also functions to keep us in, safe from experiencing anything different.
August 16th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Donald
Thanks.
I think that so many governments try to control their population by using fear of “outsiders”. We have the same issues here in Oz with boat people and it’s a hot topic in the upcoming election here.
The interesting thing for me, is that borders create inequalities in wealth.