PasarBurung

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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’ ; Travelogue Day 10

Jakarta : For four hours I was lost in the maze of lanes of Pasar Burung, the famous bird market behind Pasar Pramuka in Jakarta Timur (East). Its more than 150 shops were not only home to lakhs of birds held in cages of all sizes, it also had a number of them selling bird feed—from insects dead and alive,…