escapade to solo - part 1

last week, my working team went to Solo for our client's company visit. it was fun. aside from learning about their latest technology and information, we and the media were invited to learn how to 'membatik' at Kampung Lawean. i was very excited. though i didn't draw the pattern, but i did most of 'menchanting' and coloring process. we learned 'membatik' on an unfinished t-shirt. the people at Kampung Lawean will finalized our t-shirt and send it to Jakarta.

Then, we were accompanied to see several tourism places at Kampung Lawean. The first one was a small mosque or Langgar in bahasa. This Langgar was built around 1500-ish, with a bit frightening story. it is called Langgar Merdeka. The most interesting part on this Langgar was because thay have this tower on the 5th floor. to get there, we had to climbed a very narrow stairs. on top, we could see Solo. it was very remarkable. to add my enthusiastic, our liasson officer was a good looking man hahaha. what can i say, i am allowed to see all good things God has created for us, including men :D

the next place we visited was to batik production places. There we saw the making of a sheet of batik, both 'writting batik' or the printed one. We also saw the coloring and washing process. and we were offered to buy a pretty cheap batik. i bought one for IDR 90thousand. yeaay! Then, we saw a bunker on a house's basement. It was built on Pajang Kingdom, if i'm not mistaken. It was scary and dusty. At first, i would like to try to enter the bunker. one second thought, i didn't think i'm not that brave. and i could caught on flu. hence, i decided to stay and watched someone else tried to walk on that bunker.

Aside that, we also saw a cemetery and several other old places around Kampung Lawean. it was fun and exhausting. but, it was the best decision to take the media (and us, of course) to see the beautiful places at Kampung Lawean.

I sure hope that one day i can go there by myself, and discover some other beautiful and old places there. finger crossed :D

this is half story of my short escape to solo.
i will share the others later..