Up early to buy hats and make some photos around the homestay.
The guys from Griya Harja take us to the bus station “Indonesia style” with 3 scooters. It’s quite fun. This time we’re in the front of the bus so we can see more of the street life. The shops don’t really stop on this 1 hour drive to Jogja. From the Jogja station we take the “1A” bus and Jane has an argument about the price (which we later find out has genuinely gone up – or not – who knows).
Our “Hotel Seribu Satu Malam” is in a an alleyway of a side street of Jalan Malioboro. It’s nice with an open courtyard with palms and fish – but it’s got mosquitos (Emma and I find this out). The older guy on the desk tells us to buy our train tickets in the supermarket which we do, although we have to game the machine a bit by lying about mobile numbers.
Evening entertainment is a wayang puppet show. You can watch both sides, the shadow play or the back where you can see the colouring of the puppets and the large band with traditional Javanese instruments. Although wayang is heralded as a Javanese invention, it bears similarity to the Chinese puppet plays. To follow the stories you need a better grasp of Javanese mythology.
On the way back the tuc tucs get lost and try to charge us double. Jane’s not having any of it.
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