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May 5th 2018

Published: June 20th 2018

Temples and rice fields and batik workshops. Also laundry...it was surprisingly fantastic to get clean laundry.... Read Full Entry

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More birdies

Riding through the ricefields

Planting rice

Broom salesman?

In the rice fields

Melting the wax off a batik

Oversimplifying, but to color the batiks, the artists drawing various designs in wax, and then dying the fabric (often in multiple cycles). At the end of the process, they melt off the wax and the full layering of colors/artwork is visible.

Impressive batik

Making a batik for someone important visiting from Sweden

Batik

The # of people trying to interview us was pretty overwhelming...Carolyn turned the tables and interviewed these girls

Gamalan at the Ramayana Ballet

Ramayana Ballet

Not pictured - when they lit everything in the set on fire and we were drowning in smoke... (it was impressive and unpleasant given that it was already incredibly hot in there)

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