 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. |