Sorowako, also spelled Soroako, is a small mining town situated next to Lake Matano. The town serves as our home base throughout the entire project. Most of our project participants stay here, and Sorowako is also where our field research laboratory is located. From Sorowako, it takes about 40 minutes to reach Timampu, a village on the shore of Lake Towuti where we have been building our drilling barge. This picture was taken yesterday afternoon from the top of a hill just south of Sorowako. Hendrik and I were sampling different types of bedrock from the region, when we came across this lovely view of Sorowako and Lake Matano. The bedrock sampling is important because we want to understand the chemical and physical characteristics of the materials that get weathered and eventually end up in the lake as layers of sediment. -satrio wicaksono (TDP on facebook)