Batik – The Real Javanese Experience

Day 1: Solo

Arrive Jogjakarta – Solo
Upon arrival in Jogjakarta or Solo Airport, meeting service by our representative and direct transfer to your hotel in Solo for overnight.

Day 2: Solo

Solo – Heritage Tour Danarhadi - Solo (Breakfast, Lunch)
After breakfast in the hotel, depart to Danar Hadi Antique Batik Museum for a full day heritage tour. You will learn and observe the traditional batik production and have a workshop with the following outline:
- history of batik and its development
- making process of batik
- proper storage of cloth
- lunch
- practicing to make simple batik pattern in one color
After finish the workshop, return to the hotel for overnight.

Day 3: Yogyakarta

Solo - Jogjakarta (Breakfast, Lunch)
After breakfast in the hotel, depart to Jogjakarta. On the way, you will visit Prambanan (Every Monday visitors are unable to visit Pelataran / Temple Yard of Prambanan Temple for preservation and conservation reason), the biggest Hindu temple built in the 9th century. After that, visit Museum Batik Jogjakarta to learn the difference between batik Jogjakarta and Solo. Continue to Winotosastro batik factory for a short workshop and learn how to draw batik with hot wax on a cotton clothes using a canting or stamp or both with one dye color. Wait until boiling out the wax and you will have a great souvenir as a memory of your trip. The last stop will be Beringharjo market and Malioboro street for a souvenir hunt. Lunch will be served at local restaurant before transfer to your hotel for overnight.

Day 4: Yogyakarta

Jogjakarta (Breakfast, Lunch)
After breakfast in hotel, depart to visit Borobudur, the most important Buddhist monument in the southern hemisphere. Built between 777 and 842 AD, this world's largest stupa houses hundreds of Buddha statues and carved panels along the base telling the story of Buddha during his life according to the Jataka tales. The iconography of the ascending terraces moves from hell to earth to nirvana. Borobudur was recently restored by a world effort through UNESCO. After that we will visit also a smaller temple called Mendut and then proceed to Candirejo village and enjoy riding ‘dokar’, the local horse carriage or you can ride a bike to explore this small village and its surrounding beautiful view of plantations and to see the local people daily activity. You will also observe local home industries like sweet potato cracker and also jamu, the traditional herbal medicine productions and also bamboo carving. Then you will learn to play gamelan, the Javanese traditional musical instruments and join a traditional krubosiswo dance which is easy and very popular among local youngsters. Lunch will be served in local restaurant.

Day 5:

Jogjakarta – Airport (Breakfast)
After breakfast in the hotel, at the appointed time you will be picked up for transferring to Jogjakarta (YIA) airport for your flight to the next destination.