
In the local language, the word “surfing” translates to “mind ski”. Does this mean it’s all in the mind? Or is it because of the penetrating experience of riding your average wave here? Either way, the term works.
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Category: Trips
I lost my soul in Sumatra
Ya’ahowu
At the bend of a dark path

This is what the local rusty boat I embarked looked like, after spending a night in a fisherman shack in the middle of a mosquito-infested mangrove. It’s been a pretty wild travel to get to this place.
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Welcome to the jungle – Part 2

Looking out from the beach, it was quite in line with what I had imagined. In reality, the length and perfection of the waves exceeded my expectations. They were seemingly so wild and powerful already, which was assuredly far from the actual figure from shore. You could feel an uncommon amount of energy by the continuous flow of projection producing open cavities of water peeling flawlessly along the mile long stretch of reef. It was not more than a singularity born out of far and powerful forces of nature hitting a profoundly exposed and perfectly shaped area of land. There was no such beautiful thing in the world, a truly masterpiece of nature.
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Welcome to the jungle
Behind the rainforest – Part 2
With the rocking of a peaceful swell in the wild Indian Ocean, Joe was overwhelmed by such waves of memories and shades of the past on the slow-moving ship. By that time, he was torn about figuring out why he was in the position that he was in, unleashed somewhat earlier by an unreal situation at home. He was fighting to control an immeasurable urge to kill. Even many years later, here far-off the coast of Sumatra, he couldn’t help but think about that crazy shit that had been driving him mad for so long.
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Behind the rainforest
Kind of blue – Part 2
Kind of blue
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He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
— Moorish proverb
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This place is a pretty remote part of the bloody world.
I’ve been raised in such a tropical island ghetto which is probably why I like enduring the horrifying long travels to these far-off corners of the globe. There’s room for valuable insights here in the face of compulsive materialism and raging narcissism that have become the appalling standards of our modern living.
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