The Adventure Begins!...Almost

We just finished our last week in Iloilo and tomorrow we will be heading back to Antique. During our last few days we decided to hit up the Museo Iloilo, a minuscule building near the provincial capital. Lora thought it was especially hilarious and took some pictures.

We also ran around taking pictures of the different street vendors. Some vendors hang out on the sidewalk all day waiting for customers. These are generally the fruit or knick knack vendors. I love them because when a pang of hunger strikes while I'm running errands its never far to the nearest fruit vendor. Green (unripe) mangoes in soy sauce are delicious! At about 4pm, swarms of snack vendors flood the sidewalks eager to take the pisos from grimy little hands. These vendors usually sell some type of deep fried food. For about the past year, fried fish balls have been extremely popular (I think the idea came down from Manila). A classic snack is a bag of deep fried peanuts which come in four varieties: spicy, garlic, sweet and salty. These are a favorite of KC, who sometimes fries his own peanuts in a wide range of spices (curried peanuts are surprisingly good!).

Tomorrow we head back to Lora's old site to clean up, study for the GRE and say goodbyes before we head on our big SEA Adventure!

If you'd like some information on tourism in Indonesia check out this website. I don't think its the official Indonesia tourism website, but its the most fun! To see why, make sure you read the fine print at the bottom of the page. We just found out that we will be there during the great feast that ends Ramadan, so I'm sure we'll have stories about that in October.