Monthly Archives: October 2015

Padang – The Land of Minangkabau

Posted on October 17, 2015 by jipp

So, there’s this place called Padang that I went to as part of my trip to West Sumatra recently. It was more like the access point to Mount Kerinci – the highest volcano in Indonesia for which we went to … Continue reading →

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Keep Climbing

Posted on October 9, 2015 by jipp

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing” – Barry Finlay

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Across Many Mountains

Posted on October 4, 2015 by jipp

It was winter of 1959, the same year the Dalai Lama went into exile and the prophecy made by Padmasambhava, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, was being fulfilled in a terrible way. This ostensibly 1,200-year-old prophecy says: “When the iron … Continue reading →

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