Diminutively pronounced "Joke-Ja," Yogyakarta has historically been a big cultural center in Indonesia with a couple of major temples closeby (coming up in this post). Below Jalan Malioboro, the super-busy main drag:
The sultan's palace:
This town has more rickshaws than you can shake a stick it...
Oncoming traffic!!
Turning right... Straight into oncoming traffic. Oddly, it all works out though...
These days, Yogyakarta's cultural activity is pretty tuned into the tourist trade. Below the making of batik, coloured wax on tissue.
And the local technique for carving shadow puppets is absolutely mind-boggling. Pictures can't do justice to what this guy is creating, basically with a cut-off bike spoke, a hammer and some dried buffalo skin.
In situ:
Literally dozens of walls are covered with all sorts of street art:
Old school walls at Borobudur temple:
...it looked like this pre-restoration...
The sultan's palace:
Riding these rickshaws is a little bit of a white knuckles experience...
Oncoming traffic!!
Turning right... Straight into oncoming traffic. Oddly, it all works out though...
These days, Yogyakarta's cultural activity is pretty tuned into the tourist trade. Below the making of batik, coloured wax on tissue.
And the local technique for carving shadow puppets is absolutely mind-boggling. Pictures can't do justice to what this guy is creating, basically with a cut-off bike spoke, a hammer and some dried buffalo skin.
In situ:
Younsgters prefer using the walls as their canvas, and there's actually a pretty thriving street art scene. Below a perspective on Holland, Indonesia's old "colonial power."
Literally dozens of walls are covered with all sorts of street art:
Often political in nature.... It's also a big student town...
Old school walls at Borobudur temple:
The temple was more or less taken apart and completely reconstructed because...
...it looked like this pre-restoration...
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