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The manager of our hotel “Adeng Adeng” on Gili Meno is a hilariously likable, big, Bavarian woman named Karina.  Adeng Adeng, which means ‘Slowly, Slowly’, kind of a local mantra, is a very highly rated hotel for the money.  It…

There are no summiters to wake us up.  We sleep pretty well for being in a small tent at 11,000 feet.  Everyone looks pretty satisfied with themselves, and they should be.  This has been the hardest physical test we’ve ever…

Outside the tent I can hear muttered Bahasa Indonesian.  Lights, headlamps presumably, criss cross scan the walls of our tent for a 2am light show.  The summiters are gathering to make the attempt to the 13,000 foot peak of Rinjani. …

I had never heard of Gunung (Mt.) Rinjani before opening the Lonely Planet Guidebook.  I’d seen dozens of the ‘Top 100’ travel lists sent around Facebook, and they are very Euro-centric.  There’s no harm in that.  I expect them not…

Here it is!  After postponing this trip last year, we are finally going to Indonesia and it will be epic.  Our last huge adventure was Africa in 2012, and though we’ve been to some cool places since then (Turkey, Iceland,…