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Traveling and Writing
This website is about traveling and writing. Being on the move and being emotionally moved. Two different but interconnected things. Spotting places and losing your heart. Temples, pyramids, cities and ruins, forests and mountains, valleys and rivers, volcanoes and lakes, daily life in the streets, the world as habitat for writing.
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The Author
Derk Cools was born in 1939 in Den Haag / The Haque, the Netherlands. He got his degree in social geography and economics at the University of Utrecht(1958). As a civil servant with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, he developed expertise in regional (economic) planning at home and abroad. In 1994, he retired and moved to the Netherlands Antilles, the island of Curacao. Read on: Since 1995, he traveled

26 juni 2013

West-Papua









Who knows the mysterious, almost incredible story how the people of the Grand Valley ( Baliem vallei) could hide  so long -  without hiding - behind the high mountain ridges along the Northern coast of West-Papua and  how  an American pilot discovered them on a summer night (1938)  by the little lights, the fires under their pots. (  translated from Zeven Dagen in de Baliemvallei, page 17 edited in Dutch by lulu.com)

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