Indonesia - Back like never before!

"Amole" - the name of a Tembag. neighborhood, as well as a greeting in the local language.

Selamat Datang! Welcome to our blog! There is so much to tell... the difficulty is deciding where to begin. The main purpose of this blog is to introduce and share our life here in Tembagapura with family and friends, but of course not to exclude any wandering blog-a-bonds taking interest in the goings on of Papua Indonesia.
Although we enjoy greeting the local Papuans in their native tongue, we do not live in the Amole neighborhood. Our "new" spacious townhouse is in the quiet and very muddy West 1 neighborhood. 

We live up stairs in TH 4!

We have yet to meet our neighbors. Our plan for taking evening walks to meet them has been thwarted by rains, but we are hopeful for opportunities in the near future.


Check out some of the locals we have been getting familiar with: 

The views are really something to see as well:

The valley where the helicopters fly up and down. You can also see the "barracks", or trailers, where many of the workers live. 

There are many creeks and rivers that run and fall down through Tembag.

The buses around here are no joke!!!