On the Streets
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Asmara, a great music cafe on Jalan Tirtodipuran
They came along just after I bent myself out of shape trying to get a good angle.
The bird market, an acre of exotic birds. Guaranteed to make you blue.
Visiting relatives in prison.
She has been in that same spot ever since I started residing in that neighborhood years and years ago.
As fast as a speeding pigeon!
This home in downtown Jogja was built by a wealthy Christian. He has long since moved out but his haunted castle remains.
A whole park full of rattan structures
The entrance to Kraton (Javanese for palace) Village. The sultan owns all of the property in this village in the city center, but ordinary citizens can get permission to use the buildings for residences and shops, and can bequeath them to their heirs. The village, consisting of the sultan's palace, quiet tree-shaded lanes of modest homes and shoulder-width lanes of cramped dwellings, shops, and the Water Castle, is surrounded by high white walls. It is approximately 2 square miles in area.
A more closely-packed residential section in a narrow alley in Kraton Village.
A worker dresses to go home after a hard day's work restoring the Water Palace inside Kraton Village.
Artist Kompi, owner of the Water Castle Cafe. That's his mother with him. Wife Wening makes the tastiest fried rice and zingiest mixed fruit juice in Java. The Cafe is in Kraton Village.
The tree at the southern wall of the sultan's palace.
A compound off a lane off Jalan Tirtodipuran.
This and the next three photos are of a traditional ceremony in honor of Nyai Loro Kidul, Goddess of the Southern Sea.
Last touch.
Gotta run. Bye for now!
Indonesia Update 2017
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