Members of the Batak Toba communitypray as oneof their barefootedmembers (at far left) enters amysticalstateduring a Batu HobonceremonyinLimbong, on the island of Sumatra.
Head 35km down the B-road, passing Batak(the site of a famous 19th-century uprising against the Ottomans), and continue deeper into the Rhodope Mountains towards Dospot.
The city's many ethnic communities - Javanese, Batak, Chinese, Melayu, Indian, Arab - have managed to stay fairly separate, each with their own way of life.