Wae Rebo

July 7, 2010

1,200 meters above sea level, a village in West Flores tries to remember.

In the village of Wae Rebo, people are rebuilding their traditional conical-shaped houses—now that only four remain of the seven that were once there, and now that the local worok timber needed for the main pillars is hard to find because there are no longer enough fields to produce it. Generations have changed over one thousand years: they have shaped history and been s

...

More Articles