24 July 2008

Forgotten Islands



I am still in Indonesia until tomorrow. I am always amazed by the number of pretty spots that grace those tiny Indonesian Islands just a few hours away from Singapore. It is quite incredible that nobody is trying to develop tourism to these places as they are so near to the urban world and yet remain completely off the beaten path. May be they should actually remain so but unfortunately the area is being developed with factories, construction yards, shipyards, quarries and the like completely killing the natural environment and erasing pretty hills and destroying forests. The worst is that I am remotely participating to all this. I so often think I am doing the wrong job. The beach you see above will have disappeared within a year time.

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