Samosir Island, Sumatra, Indonesia; December 2008
I said that the kids in Sumatra were shy. Well, not these ones.
As we journeyed back across Lake Toba from the waterfall to our guest lodge on Samosir Island, we slowed the speedboat to pass by remote fishing villages. Typically each village was a cluster of about six houses, many boasting television satellite dishes alongside the traditional Sumatran curved rooves, and a church. We saw clothes drying on bushes and people fishing with nets from wooden canoes and drying the fish on small patios on shore.
At one village, there was a birthday party in progress. The kids were running about and swimming naked and two boys swam out to greet us. They shook our hands and said “horas!” (hello) and then climbed aboard the boat, somersaulted backwards into the lake and swam back ashore.
This post is part of Photo Friday, a weekly blogging event hosted by Debbie from Delicious Baby. Please go to her blog to see all the other entries this week. My Photo Friday submission last week was also from Sumatra and can be viewed here.
Such a universal picture! I love the grin.
what a contagious smile!
Such a beautiful, sunny smile! So nice to see on what is a pretty dreary day here.