"Yogy" Ireneandjason's photos around Yogyakarta, Indonesia (travel to yogy)

Preview of Ireneandjason's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Yogyakarta, Indonesia Entry Title: "Yogy" Entry: "we arrived back to yogykarta after seeing the temple in borobudur. with help from the locals, we braved the public bus system and the very helpful driver put us out right where we needed. we have been here a few days now and have had some packed days. the first night we went to a puppet show. these are very popular in this region. according to the puppet maker, the tradition of the leather puppet started in java. the whole telling of a story can take up to 14 hours. we saw just one small episode called the death of kumbakarna. the puppets themselves are made of rawhide, carved out by hand to make a lattice work that shows through on a shadow. then they are painted with one whisker brushes using the glue paint made from the marrow of bones. this preserves the paint for several generations, even in direct sunlight. in all the take up to a month to complete. the music of the puppet show is great to hear. but though we knew the general idea of the story, it was hard to follow, as it was in javanese. we tried our hands at a point and serve food stall and some young people came to help us---no dragon fire this time. then we got a bike tuk tuk and this little old guy had to get off and push our big american butts up the hill. we were ...
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