Raja Ampat’s most celebrated viewpoint is the hilltop lookout on Piaynemo (aka “Pianemo”) – a relatively small island near the southwestern end of Waigeo – the archipelago’s biggest island.
You are looking at just part of the 360 degree panorama.
Pelican Yoga will show more of it in a future, multi-image post.
(Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 3.21 pm on 12 October 2024)
Three mornings later we’d disembark at Sorong, on the western tip of the nearby, “Indonesian” part of New Guinea – the world’s second largest island.
Sorong’s human population – which exceeds Hobart’s but is a deal smaller than Canberra’s – is several times larger than that of all 1,500+ of Raja Ampat’s islands.
From Sorong, we flew to the megacity that is this teaser series’ next destination.
In “real terms”, now, Jakarta is probably “our” planet’s third largest metropolis.
Jakarta is very much bigger than are New York, London, Beijing….and most of the other so-called “global” cities.
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