Mountain People of Java

West Java. Driving through an endless tea plantations and spotting local working people

West Java. Lovely local lady agreed to stop for a picture while a group of other women nearby were cheering for an ongoing photoshoot.

Kawah Ijen, East Java. Sulphur miner. Men here carry baskets of hardened yellow sulphur weighing 70 to 90kg up a steep rocky path from the crater floor around ten times a day.

Kawah Ijen, East Java. Locals trolley rider standing around, ready to take tourists up to the crater

Kawah Ijen, East Java. Sulphur miner. Some have so little and yet are the richest people I have ever met.

Mountain People of Java

by Gaile Juknyte (United Kingdom)

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