Friday, September 23, 2011

A Second in Time in Sulawesi, Indonesia

This is a photo that I took in a very remote part of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Trevor and I were on our way to run the Sa'dan River in central Sulawesi with Sobek. We were whipping along a dirt road in a 1961 Land Rover that rattled from every moving part. I was looking out the window trying to soak up every view of the beautiful jungles of Sulawesi when all of the sudden I saw a little house along the road with a bamboo fence around it. I snapped off a photo as we went racing by. I didn't know if I had captured the photo until I looked at the slide after I got home and had the slides processed. In the photo was this little boy peaking over the fence at us as we raced by. These people, of course, don't have electricity or phone service. They live very primitive lives. I have always loved this photo because it captured a split second frozen in time.

The area that we started out from is called TanaToraja. The religion in that area of Sulawesi is Pagan Christian. Just a little over 100 years ago the people there were still headhunting.