Ruteng - Wae Rebo

Brazil - Germany World Cup game.
Getting up in the middle of the night became a World Cup ritual for us. Somewhere we could hear the Indonesian supporters of Germany cheering.

Visiting Wae Rebo.
A remote Manggarai village "close to" Ruteng. From Ruteng is was a 4 hour motorcycle ride to Denge where the road ends. We spent the night there, hired a guide and hiked for 3 hours to Wae Rebo the next day. 

A nice place to live. The traditional village exports a lot of coffee and children. At times it seemed like we are in a daycare center. I.e., it was rarely as quiet as on this picture taken in the morning.

The eldest of the village.
We had to pay a small amount of money to show respect to the village and the ancestors, then they started a ceremonial speech ,which - we think - included words such as "German" and "foto". After that we were allowed to walk around in the village and to take pictures. Too bad we speak only very little Bahasa (and unfortunately we couldn't find an English speaking guide). Hence it was hard to communicate with the people and so we silently observed the village life. We stayed the night and returned to Denge the next day in the morning. 

Back to Denge I.

Back to Denge II.