Lamalera

Lamalera, Indonesia

Travel Blogs from Lamalera

Lamalera Travel Blogs (2)
Village of the whale hunters, Lamalera, Lembata island, Solor-Alor Archipelago, Indonesia travel blog

Village of the whale hunters

A travel blog entry by idarich

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... which is bartered as lamp fuel at the surrounding markets. Bones are used in construction and carved into ornaments. Visiting Lamalera and accompanying a fishing boat presented a moral challenge to us: of course, we instinctively find the idea of ...

Of mice and (wo)men. And whales., Lamalera, Indonesia travel blog

Of mice and (wo)men. And whales.

A travel blog entry by henniterness

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... how controversial you find it and whether you would have wanted to come. "Like characters from an Indonesia Moby Dick, the hard-scrabble men of Lamalera village on the south cast of Lembata hunt sperm and pilot whales using nothing more than bamboo ...

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