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- Model: NIKON D70s
- Exposure Time: 1/1600 sec
- Date/Time Original: 5/3/2007 3:12:38 PM
- Flash: Flash did not fire
- Focal Length: 18.0 mm
Descending from Danau Gunung Tujuh back into Pelompek village, the jumping off point for our three days of backpacking, we were accosted by four local men who grilled our guide, Pak Juharli, for half an hour. The gist of their complaint seemed to be that wealthy, foreign tourists were climbing Gunung Tujuh and they weren't getting their fair cut of the money. Juharli had to pay them off. As part of the payoff, he hired them to take us from the base of the trail back into Pelompek village on their motor scooters. Here two of them wait for us to climb aboard. Gunung Kerinci rises in the background.