The latest pictures from our trip

Last week we went to Yogyakarta-

We visited Borobudor, a silver factory, and one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia.  It was a busy week of traveling and site-seeing.  Here's some of the stuff we saw!  Enjoy!

 After driving for about 4 hours, we arrived in Banjar.  We stopped to eat, and we took a few pictures.  There was a nice J40 Toyota Jeep across from where we ate, so I had to take a picture!  Later we went to a village at the foot of the volcano where there were a ton of Toyota and Willys Jeeps.

Here are some shots of us at Borobudor.  It's the most visited tourist site in Indonesia.  It was hot and there were a lot of folks everywhere.  But it was fun to be there and the site was amazing!

Everyone going to the temple had to wear the garments around the waist....  The temple was several levels- square at the bottom and 3 circular levels at top....

Next, we walked near the foothills of Merapi.  The volcano erupted in 2010, and over 300 people were killed over the month-long series of eruptions....

 The volcano is somewhere behind the cloud of smoke...





The foundation of a house can be seen in this picture- the flag indicates that someone was buried by the debris when the flow came rushing down the mountain.....

Here's a shot of Merapi from a distance.  We were never terribly close to the mountain, but we did walk around old roads, and previous pyroclastic flows.  Here's a picture of a house we walked by.....

 After the volcano in the morning, we went to a silver factory- where they made everything from earrings to horse-draw carriages from silver.  It was interesting to see how they worked with the silver, since we have often watched our Navajo friends make their jewelry.  They used silver wire to make everything, and I didn't see many stamps or bigger sheets of silver like we would if we watched our friends in New Mexico make jewelry.

The airplane was pretty amazing- the cockpit opens to reveal a silver pilot too! 

 On the way back home, we detoured to a beach.  (it was a slight 5 hour detour!)

The crabs made some cool patterns on the sand!

The beach was not very crowded, but it also wasn't the most beautiful sandy beach we had ever been to....  Apparently our driver did not want to take us there because of the prison island that was located a few miles away!  We were the only Bules (white person) around.

Our friends Amu and Hani on the boat--

The boys had such fun, chasing the waves, feeling the current, and simply messing around! 

We took a brief boat ride and then played at the beach.  The waves were kind of big, and it appeared that there was a drop-off, so we let the kids play near the shore, but not swim.  Everyone had a blast!