Prambanan, abandoned shed

During our visit to Prambanan, we made a biketour through the surrounding villages. I saw this abandoned shed somewhere in the fields.

Bali boats

During our travels through Indonesia, I was able to make a number of sketches of boats. Always an interesting subject to draw, especially because you see all types of boats you don´t see in Europe.
I made the top sketches while waiting for the ferry between Java and Bali. The bottom one was of ships I saw during the trip across the waters. And the middle one was drawn just in front of our hotel in Bali, while sitting in the sun sipping on a nice cold beer.

Bandung and Dieng plateau

 

After Bandung (below you see a sketch of the trainstation of Bandung) we made a traintrip to Wonosobo. There we visited the Dieng plateau, with its beautiful multicoloured lakes and geisers. And a fantastic detailed old hindu temple, over 1200 years old (see sketch).

We also noticed that this region has a lot of potato and tobacco agriculture, I managed to sketch a man carrying (I think) tabacco leaves over the steep fields.

 

Trip through Indonesia

The past 2 weeks my wife and I went for a 16 day tour through Indonesia. We had a fantastic journey, not only because of the beautiful country, pleasant people, good food and fine weather, but also because of the excellent Indonesian guide and nice group of fellow Dutch travellers (26 in total).

Above you see the 10-day route through Java, by bus and train. Of course 10 days Java and 4 days Bali is not nearly enough to visit Indonesia properly, but my holidays are limited, so it was either this or not visiting at all. At least we had a good first impression of this fantastic country.
After a 19 hour flight from Amsterdam we arrived in Jakarta around noon.
We only had one afternoon to visit Jakarta, so we immediately went to the harbour where old wooden ships were being loaded by hand. These ships are so beautifully made, incredible. Real handicraft.
I was able to make this quick impression before we left for a tour through the citycenter, and a visit to the colonial museum.