Yogyakarta
A short run through Yogyakarta took us through the Kraton, sultan's palace, and the adjacent bird market. The Kraton didn't impress me much with alabaster dragons and the sultans green plastic spoon on display (along other everyday items and palace furniture), but the bird market turned out to have almost every exotic bird and animal we could only hope to see around here in the wild. It was heartbreaking though educational to pass by the cages and crates of owls, giant spotted geckos, flying foxes and one very miserable looking loris (nocturnal lemur), all clinging hopelessly to the walls of their prisons, waiting to be bought and made into pets, meals, or paperweights with shiny glass eyes.
Yogyakarta Gallery
Yogyakarta Gallery