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Nik & Whitney, 2008
Kelimutu lakes. Bali, Indonesia.
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Random post from earlier blog stories . . .

30 Day Visa

It was immediately apparent that the $25 30 day visa in Indonesia was not long enough so we made an executive decision to stay for 31 days for a mere $20 extra. While in Sumatra we took a night boat to the remote Mentawai Islands south of Padang. There we stayed with a local Mentawai family and enjoyed jungle trekking and experienced traditional Mentawai medicine man rituals. It became apparent why all the medicine men are all so thin and wiry; the rituals go through the night and involve singing, chanting and dancing until you collapse from exhaustion. Then you repeat.

Dancing away evil spirits

Mentawai medicine man dancing away evil spirits


Posted by nik 02/06/2009, revised 02/24/2009

Ygnacio Valley High Cross-Country
1999 Champions
CIF North Coast Section - Division I

Individual Record
1998 Individual NCS ranking: 35th
1999 Bay Valley Athletic League: 5th (All-League, First Team)
1999 Individual NCS ranking: 9th
1999 Individual Far-West ranking: 25th

Nik, Abdullah Jamali, Anthony Lopez, Daniel Walker, Felipe Escobar, Michael Croxton, Harvey Rios
 
1998 NCS results
1999 Ram Invitational results
1999 State results

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