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Yogyakarta

Court culture, batik workshops and village kitchens in central Java.

Understand this place before you visit

The place

A special region still governed by its sultanate, surrounded by farming villages and volcanoes.

Batik makers, silversmiths, gamelan musicians, students and farmers.

Javanese court arts, wayang, batik tulis and refined etiquette.

Gudeg, sweet Javanese spicing, street kitchens that open at midnight.

Merapi's slopes, rice plains and the southern coast.

Giriloyo, Bantul, Yogyakarta

Ibu Tatik hands you a canting and a beginner's cloth, and after an hour you understand why hand-drawn batik is priced by the week.

Mixed 4h

Kotagede, Yogyakarta

Sit inside the circle at a neighbourhood rehearsal in Kotagede, take a saron part, and learn to count in a cycle instead of bars.

Low tourist intensity 2h

Bantul, Yogyakarta

Young jackfruit, teak leaves and six hours on a wood fire. Ibu Tatik's kitchen starts the night before, and so do you.

Low tourist intensity 5h

Giriloyo

A batik tulis village in Bantul, south of Yogyakarta, where hand-drawn cloth has supplied the court tradition for generations.