Categotry Archives: Thursday Thirteen
13 Things to Eat
I’m back on my diet. From the end of July until the middle of January I refused to count calories. I did keep an eye on “My Plate” and pushed the exercise. That isn’t enough. My weight stayed at 170lb, plus or minus a couple of pounds. Wishful thinking got me nowhere. Ive been counting the calories and fat grams for about a week now and have already lost four pounds. Oddly enough, today and yesterday I had to make […]
Prambanan Temple Complex. Yeah, again.
The area just past the ticket boot for the Prambanan Temple is a lovely garden. You can see it here. It’s #10. Once you get past that, you’re faced with a jumble of rock. As the archaeologists uncover the stones, they pile them up in the area. Until they have more than 75% of a given temple, they can’t do anything with it. Considering there were 224 temples in the area before volcanic activity and earthquake took them down in […]
Prambanan Temple Complex
This week I’m just going to do 13 pictures from the Prambanan Temple Complex, which is just a relatively short drive from Candi Sambisari. 1.
Textiles in Kasongan Village
After we left the first pottery place in Kasongan village we went up an alley and came in the back door of a combination fabric and hat making operation. It was an odd place. The fabric was in an area that looked like a three sided car port with one side open not to the street but to the porch of the house it was attached to. Inside this area a couple of women worked industriously at decorating fabric. I’m […]
Kasongan Pottery Works
The area around Jogjakarta, including Kasongan Village, is considered an important area for pottery in Java. It’s called a center for the arts, and know for pottery as well as theater and fabric. The two places we visited both had pottery brought in and added the finish for resale, mostly on a wholesale basis. The first shop focused on large vases. They painted the outsides with glue, then attached pieces of colored glass for a mosaic effect. Several women did […]
Kasongan Village
Kasongan Village is a place our tour guide was familiar with. On arrival we went wandering along the byways of the town, sometimes cutting through what I could swear were their equivalent of back yards. As we ran across people we would stop to talk. Although I’m sure many of those we visited have visited with tour groups before, who we encountered seemed entirely random.
13 Pictures from a Cyclo-Rickshaw
I considered calling this 13 pictures of a back side because I was at the end of the line, but decided I couldn’t really call a rice paddy a “back 40”. This was the trip from the glamorous country-side restaurant to Kasongan Village. 1.
Lunch On The Way to Kasongan Village
After flying from Jakarta to Yogjakarta, we took a bus straight to a restaurant that was situated across from a rice paddy. Although they had tables inside, everyone chose to eat at tables set up in front. Not just our group. Everyone. Our group happened to have over a dozen people, yet they managed to come up with a table we could all sit at. It was very elegantly appointed. This particular restaurant’s claim to fame is a serving style […]
The First Half an Hour in Yogyakarta
We took a morning flight from Jakarta to Yogjakarta. On arrival we packed into a bus and went Straight to a restaurant for lunch. Here are thirteen of the hundred or so pictures I took along the way. I think it gives a fairly good idea of what it looked like. 1.
An Afternoon in Jakarta
After wandering around in a market, visiting a mosque, and talking to the local version of a relief society, we got in these tiny three wheeled cars and braved Jakarta’s traffic to go to a restaurant for lunch. This is a lot more daring than it sounds. Traffic in Jakarta is insane! Mind you I think traffic in a lot of places is nuts. Ulaan Battar comes to mind. Turns out Jakarta is far from the only city in Indonesia […]
A Morning in Jakarta
The tour I was on only gave us one full day in Jakarta. The national guide actually considered it a light day and mentioned consideration for our jet lag, but it seemed plenty full to me. We started off with a ride in the tour bus to a local market. I already told you all about that. I noticed that people tended to stare at us before, during, and after we passed. Yet I got the feeling we were hardly […]
13 Things That Didn’t Fit
I’m still working on my post about Jakarta. As I go through my notes, I’m finding a lot that won’t fit. 1. That’s a picture of a river we crossed in the bus. I think it gives a good idea of the skyline of Jakarta. But it doesn’t fit in the flow of my post, so out it went. 2. Fun fact. An Iman – Moslem spiritual leader – in the mosque we visited is elected to his position by […]
A Random 13
1. I was working on my Jakarta post, but got too tired to finish it. 2. 3. It seems like Photobucket is getting harder and harder to work with. Or maybe it’s just my ancient desktop.
13 Excuses
I was planning on doing a post about Jakarta today. Didn’t happen. Really, there’s no excuse, but I’ll make some up anyway.
13 Pictures from a Market
The very first attraction on my tour of Indonesia was a walk through a local market to a mosque in Jakarta. 1. The entrance to the area.
