Amed sunrise

David, my diving instructor at Amed in Bali told me that he had moved to Indonesia more than 20 years ago after growing up in West London. David is a lovely guy and clearly adores where he lives - he suggested that his life in Bali had been made possible, alt least in part, by selling his one-bedroomed flat in West London. 

His small business employs local staff as scuba instructors, and Ketut, our young instructor was an amazing guy - he spoke English, French and Chinese (perhaps more, but I didn't press him). I asked Ketut if he had travelled outside Indonesia, but he said that it was simply impossible because the value of the Indonesian Rupiah meant he was not able to. I was struck by the stark differences between the possibilities offered to these two lovely men, who shared this place and were clearly friends as well as colleagues. 

This recording captures the sound of the sunrise in Amed - a sound shared by a person with the means to migrate and a person without those means. 

Recorded by Rob McNeil.

Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration. 

For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration