In 1995 Mark Eveleigh bought an Indonesian/English dictionary from a travel bookstore in London. He was working as a security guard at the time, and for much of the following year would use his night shifts to teach himself Bahasa Indonesia in preparation for an expedition into the heart of Indonesian Borneo. Since then the British-born writer (who lived most of his first decade in West Africa) has travelled widely in Africa, Latin America and Asia working for some of the world’s most prestigious publications – including BBC, Telegraph,
Guardian, Independent, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveller and CNN. That Borneo expedition was the start of a quarter-century love-affair with Indonesia which has led him to more than a hundred Indonesian islands.
If he were ever told he could only travel in one country for the rest of his life he’d choose Indonesia.
