Cahyo has built a small and basic resort in the area, comprising five bungalows and five family tents on the land.

FORBES: By Sonya Angraini (Forbes Indonesia)

The ophthalmologist and his family were still living in tents, although they did, thanks to extension cords running from their half-destroyed house, have electricity now.

WSJ: Ben Fountain on Haiti After the Earthquake | Traveler's Tale

That's the case at MWC in Barcelona, IFA in Berlin and CEATEC in Japan -- at SXSW in Austin, however, bars, tents, parking lots and even single-family homes host manufacturers large and small, and instead of starched button-downs and cufflinks, attendees sport t-shirts and tattoos.

ENGADGET

Families sleep in large plastic greenhouses on farms, tents have been erected in gardens, and homes that were built to house a single family now shelter dozens of people.

BBC: Syrians hide underground to escape struggle for control