Jogjakarta. View over the rooftops of Jogja and of the smoking volcano Merpati. He's still active!!

Jogja. The streets around the Sultan's palace.

Beatriz and the Sultan on Malioboro street.

I like the wall paintings a lot.

The locals want to be on a picture.

These local students like a picture too. Jogja holds many art universities and many students walk around with a big camera. We take pictures of them, and they take pictures of us.

What can I say ?? It's pure art.

Beatriz is getting some guiding on the local bird market. Not without intentions!! The man showed us around for an hour or so, and eventually we arrived at his house where he has an art gallery. And he wants to sell us his batik paintings. He made a lot of effort and the Javanese batik is fantastic, but too bad for him we are not buying. And he was the 3rd guy that day with this trick so we know what is going on in Jogja.

In Jogja the people even batik the little chickens !!

A quick picture from an art gallery, quick because it is not allowed. The batik paintings are fantastic handwork !! The artist uses wax and natural colours on a cotton or silk surface.

Java is very known for puppet shows. This puppet is carved out of a roll of buffalo skin, then painted with natural colours. The green comes from the papaya leaf, the white from a buffalo horn, and the black from some stone. Really impressive handwork.

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