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All the carving is hand made.


Sea view just opposite our hotel room


Jepara bunting is totally different from what we have in Malaysia. They have alot of bamboo so they use it and it looks great.


This is the town


Statue of KARTINI


Teak shop. This shop got quite alot of nice product


Where is the female lion?


Teak trunk, just cut down from the forest. The one i'm stepping is only 20 years old teak. The best teak is more than 40 years but nowadays very rare.


This harley is very cheap if you buy at Indonesia.


The best wood is the one at the bottom.


Horse carving.Chinese will like it very much


Wall unit horse carving.


When I saw this sign, I was wondering what is SWEEKE? SWEEKE means CHUI KEA in hokkien. Other saying is call frog


This one haven't pour in the soup


Looks so weird but once you taste it, sure can't stop.



JEPARA KFC. See how lucky our Malaysia people can enjoy KFC in the air-condition place but at JEPARA, either you tapau or you eat it there beside the road side.



Kelapa Muda and the sign shows you that the seller is sure profit (Pak Untung)


You will see alot of these people at the roadside when you park your car. They are parking attendant. Just pay them some money.


Old lady carry all these thing for sell. Her face looks so cham..


Ice cream seller. Can you see the cart? looks old and he need to pust it from a place to another.


At night, we had our dinner at a restoran near seaside and they serve seafood.


errr.... Only one table got customer and that is us. no customer also we need to wait our food to be serve so long. haizzzz.....

Woke up around 8.30am. Later around 9am our breakfast is serve in our room. The hotel only got 2 menu for breakfast either continental or local. Every morning is the same thing.

Maggi goreng and fried egg with orange juice. (local breakfast).
After breakfast we go to visit the supplier. Today i got the chance to see their carving skill. Their carving skill is very good and all the carving is very detail.




This guy do the flower carving for the arm chair head rest. One day he manage to carve 5nos and he do it very fast. All the teak wood furniture are hand made and their usage of machine is very less. While i was visiting this kind of place, my mind was thinking how about these people health?. Everyday they work and smell the wood dust and even their kids also. I never see got any of them wearing the face mask while working. I hope that the GOD will bless them because they really do the hardwork and their life there is very poor. Hardly for me to see their house got fan. I saw only 2 supplier out of 30 that have standing fan at their house.



This kind of view is almost all the same when you visit the teak wood shop. The place is very dusty. In another word, maybe can name it as a "CITY of WOODDUST".




When ever we go to visit the supplier, they will serve us mostly Teh Botol SOSRO



At Jepara there are alot of this small stall at the roadside selling petrol. But the petrol price is double compare with the petrol station you pump at the town.


when we was visiting the supplier, suddenly i saw a shop selling BEER. I just walk in and to my suprise they sell beer in a drum. The local beer called "Bintang Draft". We bought a drum and share. This is how we buy beer at Jepara.....


At night after dinner, we go visit a showroom own by foreigner. The accessories item all very nice.


Before going back to hotel, we drop by at a supermarket to buy extra beer and groundnuts since we are already there. The nuts is very ho chiak, once you pop you can't stop.


Night view outside our hotel.

Wake up early in the morning to get myself ready to airport but still feel blur blur because i just take a nap for 1-2 hour. My poor buddies also blur because he need to fetch me to LCCT.
poor guy


our flight was on time and we reach Solo around 9.30am. this trip i went with ching, jeya and mani.



the usual view inside the flight


this two guy sure looking at the pretty stewardess....


When we reach Solo our driver and agent already waiting in the car. The journey to Jepara takes around 4 hours drive from Solo. Along the journey when we reach Semarang the road is jam, full of lorry and is dusty because the road is not tar road but we call it sand & stone road. This town is very busy because people are using the port at Semarang for import and export. Few people walking and selling tit bits, cigarettes, drinking water and etc in the busy road where the car is jam and slow moving. They will walk to your car and if you need something you can just buy it.



saw this in a group of two sing song at the traffic light and when the car stop they will come over to get some tips



This is the place we had our lunch.



the menu language is different abit from Malaysia



four of us order nasi ayam.



heyyy..... look here. don't be so yau kui (hungry ghost) keep on eating.


ching : hey melvyn what drinks you want?
me : er.... dunno what to drink also.
ching : try this la... teh botol sosro.
me : hah.... why got tea in the botol?
ching : try la.
me : oklah. i nak teh botol sosro.
(after few minute the drink is serve)
me : why the taste got some smell?(feel like cheated by ching)
ching : haha....smell like jasmine is it?
me : yalah.the smell very strong
ching : i think you will never order this drink again.
me : not really la. as long the teh is cool than is ok.



After finish our lunch, the journey continue. at 2.30pm we finally reach Jepara. When we start entering the town, i saw some shop selling the teak wood along the both side of the road. As we went deep inside, i saw the teak shop more and more until we reach our hotel.


teak shop along both side of the road.



finally we reach our hotel at Jepara.



we stay at the one on the right. All the rooms they name it by the sea creature. we stay at the rooms called "Duyung"



apartment style with 2 rooms and a very big living hall. The only thing no good is the water because when using the tab water the taste is like the sea water.



Mr.Mani and Mr.Ching discussing the itineary with our driver.



try to act cool....



while they busy discussing, i walk around the hotel and take some photo.the swimming pool is just opposite our room. nice view...



ching and jeya will choose the product and mani will negotiate with the supplier and my job is taking the product photo and i learn how ching choose the product. this trip i really learn alot of things from the senior.



this type of dry kiln is no good compare with the one in the oven.


this one is better. the raw wood will dry.



at nite we had our dinner at the road side. The food is nice especially the sambal. people here don't eat much vegetables. they prefer chicken, chicken and chicken. that is their life. We order crab (kepiting in indonesia language), ayam goreng, burung goreng and ikan goreng. the worst part is when the burung goreng is serve i still can see the bird head still there. it makes me feel very geli......