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Yogyakarta, blue sky, paddy, and spicy – part 2

Day 3 of my Yogyakarta trip. Sorry for the photos, too lazy to filter anymore. Today we plan to go to the town of Yogyakarta and do some walking and discovering. Heard from friends that there’s a Bird Market and a shopping street call Malioboro.

So we woke up early in the morning to catch our Guest House’s breakfast which was included in the rates. Discovered that the area behind where we had our breakfast was very nice. It was just a small area, but decorated/landscaped very nicely. So after we eat, we did some early morning shooting.

A path from the breakfast place to the garden at the back. The taller building behind the pondok is actually the “house” next door!

Leaf-less trees – probably the gardener plucked all the leaves down so no work for him.

A closer look at the small hut. This is the small hut we chilled in later tonight.

A wooden house further back with a small pond fill with fishes. Look like some house in those chinese kung fu novel.

Hamyu, the kung fu master who stays there!

The gardener haven’t got time to clear the leaves of this tree yet.

A shot from the house towards the hut.

Flowers in the morning is always good.

A ladder up to the erm… top of the bamboo?

Path leading the the hut passing by a basin.

Siewmei standing in front of the nice hut.

Early morning model shooting.

This area is behind the wooden house. A lot of bamboos and it’s quite nice to shoot.

Early morning jog?

YenC in the morning.

Not enough sleep.

Nice color combination.

After a while, Shyng finished her breakfast and join the shoot.

Flowers everywhere!

Based on her shadow, it’s 9:42am.

Asked her to went into the house, apparently is a store room. What a cool store room.

Old-skool photos hanging along the wall.

After we ended our early morning photo session, we called 2 cabs to get us to Bird Market. It’s a place where they don’t just sell birds, but a lot of other pets as well.

“Fighting fish”? That’s what I used to call it during I’m very young. I’m still using the same term to address these kinda fish. Natural born fighter.

Fishy for the fish lovers.

Turtles are selling for quite a cheap price here based on Shyng. All camera shy. Hehe.

The look of the street around Bird Market.

Besides pet food, you can also find human food here.

One of the pet food for your pet bird I guess. Red ants and red ants eggs! The whole thing is alive!

Crickets. Damn a lot of crickets.

Very gross worms.

Geckos are sold here too.

It is not call Bird Market for nothing.

Walking inside the market makes me feel like I’m gonna catch a bird flu.

We were walking towards the back of the market. Because from far we can see there’s some kinda monument there.

The small road of Bird Market.

Even Obama visited the Bird Market. This is how famous it is.

This is the monument we were heading to. It’s the Water Castle… well… what’s left of the Water Castle.

Taking photos inside the damaged structure.

Look at Hamyu and Jook’s pose!

From on top of the Castle, you can see  almost the whole Yogyakarta.

Me walking to find a nice spot to shoot.

But where the heck is my camera?

Shyng a bit off in this picture.

Based on the shadow, it’s 11:43am.

Top down view.

/Jook-ing around.

Heroes.

Another shot of the inside of the structure. Maybe it collapse due to the earthquake. If you wanna know the truth, please Wiki it yourself.

Behind the Water Castle, is where people live.

Looks normal on top, but there are actually underground tunnel below the houses.

Siewmei posing behind one of the entrance to the underground tunnel. Very nice structure.

Roof of the entrance.

A house further down the street.

Siewmei plucked a flower from the ground.

Further in, you can see how the housing area of Yogyakarta people looks like. A cute kid still wearing his pyjamas. Siewmei didn’t let the chance ranwaway. Haha.

Hanging the clothes very high to catch maximum sunlight.

In front of one of the houses there’s a nice bench.

The local kids showing his ability.

Thsi is another roof of another building that lead to another tunnel. Looks like fish scale.

We’re underground.

Looking up at the opening of the tunnel.

Jook trying to get a good shot.

This platform is where i looked up and shot the 2nd previous shot. Very nice place, like a maze.

After walking for quite some time, we got hungry. And heard from the friends that came back from Yogyakarta, this place, the Water Castle Cafe, is the nice place to hang out and chill.

Portraits and a lot of photos were hanging on the wall.

Portfolio of one of the owner I think.

A home feel cafe. Nice~

Siewmei pretend to read something.

The entrance to the toilet.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the toilet. Very nicely decorated.

They even got a wardrobe inside the toilet.

It’s a huge toilet. If you enjoy shitting, this place will enhance your experience!

The violin that the owner plays.

One of the owner having an afternoon snacks session.

Very relaxing place as after the owner finsihed with his tasks, he’ll play his violin there. He asked this foreign lady is she could play the violin, and she played some Irish stuffs. Very nice.

One of the youngest owner of the place. Look at him feeling the music.

The oldest, enjoying his afternoon and his life, playing the ukelele.

Old chair.

Siewmei taking pictures of the nice toilet.

We wrote, drew, and signed something for the owner. Hopefully he stick it somewhere in his shop.

Outside of the cafe, there’s this drink that looks like chendol in Malaysia. It’s kinda sweet.

Workers at the Bird Market trainig their pigeon.

After finished walking around the Bird Market, our next destination is the shopping street, Malioboro. We chose an alternative ways, well, at least for us, to travel. Horse cart! This is the horsie that pull our cart. The driver is an old man and 6 of us squeezed into the horse cart. Poor horsie. Hahaha…

Squeezing into the cart at the back there.

Off we go to Malioboro.

Horse carts in Yogyakarta are quite respected in the traffic. Although the cart was travelling quite a slow paste, but there are no honking from the people behind.

Looking down to the wheel.

Passed by a resting cart. Looks like some cowboy town.

And here we are! Jalan Malioboro. The famous shopping street in Yogyakarta.

The street looks not much different from Malaysia’s street.

A lot and a lof of locals and tourists.

Look outside of the street, it just looks like some small town street.

A shop selling some traditional snacks

There are “Petronas” snacks inside! Wonder what are the ingredients.

Jook holding an edible bowl made out of rice. Didn’t manage to try la cos nobody bought it.

While waiting for the taxi. All damn tired already.

Proof of visit for Siewmei.

Not sure what Jook trying to do here. Hahaha…

Group photo at Malioboro.

After we took the cab back to our guest house. Showered and took some rest. Then walk out around our guest house again to look for our food!

We actually passed by this restaurant the day before. And finally it’s time visit it. Remember I just went to Bali around 2 months ago, there’s a place there call Jimbaran and it’s famous for it’s seafood. So I think this restaurant brings in the food from Jimbaran. Just like in KL eating Penang Fried Kuey Teow.

The pond in front of the restaurant is actually a aquarium filled with prawns!

Fishes for you to choose.

Clams are one of the cheapest seafood there.

Calimari anyone?

Not sure if these prawns are from the pond.

Pointing down to the pond to indicate there are live prawns down there.

Price list.

Vicious fire ikan bakar.

Waiting for our food to come. They actually serve the food on banana leaves.

Quite a nice environment. One problem is that there are lizards on the roof. And one of it actually shit-ed! Luckily none of us were that lucky to kena.

We were quite early there and you can see the restaurant was quite empty. But later it’s kinda full with people.

Siewmei ordered the coconut juice which looks very delicious.

Chilis in Yogyakarta is no joke.

We ate using our hands! The waitress said is one of the tradition there. So we followed and it was quite weird to eat seafood with hands. You can feel the texture of the fish you are eating.

Hamyu praticing it.

YenC also not bad.

The most professional of us all. Shyng.

Hamyu spotted this girl behind me. Hahaha.

After the dinner, we did some exercise (walking back to our guest house) and prepared the snacks we bought from Jalan Malioboro to chill at the pondok I shot in the morning.

Having snacks and enjoying our teas kampung style, under the pondok!

That concludes our third day at Yogyakarta. One more part to come, our last day in Yogyakarta. Coming soon.