A palace, a princess without the tiara, gorgeous lighting......action!
Surakarta Travel Blog
› entry 5 of 9 › view all entriesOctober 26th, 2008 – by: tari

that long piece of material is an example of a batik piece, and that woodie thing I have no idea wot it is, but its pretty dont you think?
Arghhhh Surakarta is not part of Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta....or is it now?I will still insist its part of Central Java, aniwae
Oh yea...this entry has nothing to do with food....*the event has something to do with food tho*
Aniwae*Dont you think i used up all my 'aniwae' allowed card?hahaha i know i know thats totally outta point*, when I was in Solo, there was this exhibition in conjunction with the world heritage cities conference, and this exhibition took place in mangkunegaran palace.

thats a pair of traditional javanese err couple *statues?* complete with their wedding attire
Ok back to the story, sooooo yeah *where was I?* yes the exhibition, basically there were stalls and quarters and corners where people from all over the countries *normally traditional artsie craftie traders* sold some err stuff?I am not exactly into this kinda thing.

its called 'gunungan' *which direct translation I believe is err mountain?* I dont know why
So yea while she was having a blast stopping at different stalls and talking to different people, I just wandered around, taking some more useless pictures *trust me i took loads....maybe the number of pictures I put up here doesnt really do it justice, but I did.

some artsie craft
Aniwae, yes so my mom spent most of her time talking to those batik craftsmen, and occasionally bought some batik pieces, while moi just wandered around, taking pictures, and basically zoned out at the sight of something beautiful.
A real good sober night I would say. haha
song of the moment: because I got high by afroman *why?I dont know, haha*
p.s.Am so sorry, thats wot happened when your mind wanders a lot, you get easily side-tracked.....just like me
p.p.s this was my last night in Solo, that explains my mom's frantic *batik* shopping...Coz by the time she'd back in Solo, the exhibition would be over. And yea dont you think its a nice ending to my stay in Solo *this time round*


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