heaven on earth /re:Tanimbar Kei/

Tanimbar Kei, Souteast west mollucas

i never expected how beautiful this island was, the most wonderful journey i've ever been. from the first timer fery ship ride, then we continued with 3 hours mini speed boat ride with turquoise ocean around us. aaaaah the most excited feeling ever. when the village looked slowly, we can see the upper village and the lower one from the middle of the bay. after we arrived, the local people welcomed us with their hospitality and also their ritual to welcome people. they served their traditional food, hot tea and one old woman sang a song for us. this little heart smile a bit when i heard her tremble voice yet so strong and beautiful. i thought it was a symbol that they are kind and happy that we came to their village. 

we had 9 days there, but the locals have steal our heart already that they are our family too. i will not share about 'the architecture things' like our first aim to come to their village. ooh i'm not lying that my tears falling down while i write this post, i'm so in love with Tanimbar Kei with everything in it. They never tired to companied us to get all datas there, they gave us tea time with snacks every morning and evening, they invited us to enjoy the beauty of this island like went to cave, beaches and lend us snorkle equipments to enjoy the corals. i remembered when they ivited us to the most exciting beach, the beach has big waves and we were having fun all day long. 

i can see that they have powerful bond each other, they never forget to help each other, have fun together everyday, and make everythings are seems fun even it's just small thing. they have big tolerance, although they have difference faith but they respect each other. i saw it when on of local people died, they (muslim, hindu, cristian, chatolic) attended the funeral. 

I think they have the most quite and calm home ever, i saw that their key of happiness is be grateful and don't be greedy like i see in the majority big city 'everything is about money' but they never have thoughts like that. they have each other and keep their culture and their faith together whatever. and our relationship doesn't end after we back to Jakarta, we keep our contact. sometimes we do video call to keep contact.

well, actually now we are processing a book about Tanimbar Kei. i hope this book will finished well and as a reward to the locals because they are super kind to us and we won't forget because they are our family too.