Rice fields and mountains.

 

I look outside ;

Rice fields and mountains

And a poem rises.

 

(Ajip Rosidi 1938)

 

 

Garoet.

 

 

Garoet,  homeland of my late father,

is a regency in West Java.

With its cool tropical climate, its highland

has large beautiful ricefields.

 

 

 

Pantjoran tea house.

 

Pantjoran was the gate to

Batavia Chinatown. This building was

the former Chung Hwa pharmacy that was

operated from 1928 to 1957, and then

left abandoned.

After restoration, it was opened again

as a tea house.

Margamukti.

 

Margamukti tea plantation is located in

Bandung regency.

 

Surya Indah.

 

 

Built  c1985 this resort villas

located in Cipanas, West java,

has since been our get away  

from crowded city life.

Sunrise at Borobudur.

 

Sunrise at Borobudur temple.

 

Plengkung Gading.

 

Plengkung Gading was one of five gates of

Jogjakarta's kraton/palace which was build in 1756,

by Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono I.

The gates connected the areas within the wall

and the outside