Saturday night in Java is called Malam Minggu, which literally means the night of Sunday as the night precedes the day. Malam Minggu is a great time to go out and see the exciting nightlife of the city of Jogyakarta. Our excellent guide, Tis, brought us to the southern palace park (Alun-Alun) where we rode about with hundreds of other Javanese in these brightly lit up pedal cars that were blaring pop music. The other popular activity in the park is to walk blindfolded from the north end of the park through the two banyan trees in the center of the park. This is very hard to do, yet 3 of our students (Emily, Chelsey, and Abby) made it!
The following day we had a batik workshop were everyone had a chance to try their hand at the ancient art of wax resist where we used small pen-like tools (called canting tools) to apply hot wax in intricate patterns. After the wax is applied the fabric is submerged into dye then boiled to remove the wax.
We also traveled out to see the magnificently restored Borobudur temple. It is hard to believe these walls and relief carvings are over 1000 years old.
The following day we had a batik workshop were everyone had a chance to try their hand at the ancient art of wax resist where we used small pen-like tools (called canting tools) to apply hot wax in intricate patterns. After the wax is applied the fabric is submerged into dye then boiled to remove the wax.
We also traveled out to see the magnificently restored Borobudur temple. It is hard to believe these walls and relief carvings are over 1000 years old.
Excellent - looks exciting and very fun - can't wait to hear the stories!
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