Motorcycles carry just about anything. |
Puppies for sale on the street. |
Freshly dyed threads. |
Wax is collected in an instrument. |
The wax is then drawn on the fabric to define the batik pattern. |
Stamps can also be dipped into wax to create batik patterns. |
To enter temples you must cover your legs with a sarong. |
Smart individuals bring their own along to avoid a sarong rental charge! |
The rules. Note the spelling and rule #3. |
Inside the temple. |
Rice paddies terraced up the hillside. |
Houses next to the paddies. |
Rule #1 concerning vendors: never look at them or what they are selling. Rule #2: never touch the product. |
Gunung Batur volcano. Note the black areas from a recent lava flow. |
Fruit stands line the roads in Bali. |
Monkeys cleaning each other. |
Vines to the sky. |
Monkeys climbing the stairs. |
This was my outdoor shower for the last couple of nights in Bali. Pretty neat to have a shower out in the open! |
Fresh coconut milk to drink. |
The coconut milk stand. |
The swimming pool was much nicer than the beach. |
The beach during low tide. |
These colourful boats take tourists on rides. Sort of like an outrigger with an extra float. |
Todd and me play a large game of chess. |
Now in Yogyakarta and this is the Buddhist Borobudur temple. |
Carvings in the rocks of the temple. |
Students from a nearby school that came to the temple on a friend trip (and asked tourists questions to practice their English and French). |
View from the top. |
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More students asking me questions in French! |
East of Yogya there's also the Hindu Prambanan temple. |
Reconstruction of one of the temples. |
Mimosa sp. grows wild in the grass. This common house plant is sold in North America as the "Sensitive Plant". The leaves fold up when you touch it. |
The Bird Market in Yogya has many unusual birds, like Barn Owls. |
Rabbits for sale in the Bird Market. |
Live bird food. Yummy! |
Pigeons. The free ones are weighted down on their backs so they can't fly away. |
Female woodpecker. |
Pigeons are carried on the back of a motorcycle. |
More live bird food. |
Parrot. |
Part of the Kraton in Yogya. |
The Water Castle south of the Kraton. |
My birthday dinner: a large pizza (that's as big as they come in Indonesia), a beer, jackfruit, mango, chocolate bar, and snake skin fruit. |
