photos from Jakarta

Here are a couple from the day of museum-going I had with Thersya in Jakarta. Unfortunarely, I have no photos of Thersya. Oh, well. More reason to go back to Indonesia! She & I sketched out a rough agenda for a trip...maybe that Peter & I can take with Mike & John? Or Josh & Anna? Or Meaghan? Or Kirsten? Hmmmmm? A few weeks in Java & Bali?

Anyway, I wrote earlier about the staircases & cannon, but here are some brief details again. The cannon was brought to Batavia, the center of Dutch culture in Jakarta, when the last of the Portuguese territories were taken over by the Dutch. These beautiful spiral staircases were one of Thersya's & my favorite parts of the museums. The collections weren't curated well at all, but the buildings were incredible...Dutch colonial structures with beautiful windows & staircases; big, old, wide floor boards; and some gorgeous old pieces of furniture.