Yogyakarta Bird Market

Yogyakarta , Java, Indonesia
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    Attraction Type:

    Flea/street market

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    9of 12 attractions in Yogyakarta

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  • 1

    there's a market for everything...

    163 photos

    ... a bird market right in the middle of town, near the Sultan's palace.  I thought I'd check it out...never been to a bird market before...expected a bunch of caged birds for sale.  My main objective was to not breathe too deeply so as to avoid ...

  • 2

    Big Buddhas of Borobudur

    22 photos

    ... inside, airy and shady outside, and in all honesty held little to interest me, so I headed in a roundabout way to the bird market to the compound's east. This was more engaging despite the likelihood of picking up a number of strains of avian flu. ...

  • 3

    Yogyakarta - Day 180-181

    29 photos

    ... first sultan around 300 years ago as the official royal resistance, now it's a hooch potch of shops, markets and houses. The bird market was a real spectacle but slightly cruel. Dozens of birds in tiny cages pecking at each other and showing signs of ...

  • 4

    Another Day on the Back of a Moped

    20 photos

    ... and removing the paraffin wax each time they prepare to dye. According to the Lonely Planet there is supposed to be a huge bird market nearby, but Agoes seemed to think that it had been moved. The other suggested itinerary includes a visit to the Kota ...

  • 5

    Culture Capital of Indo

    33 photos

    ... masonary and so forth :) Because I liked the city I spent a few more days just hanging around and I visited the Palace and the bird market and the old Royal Baths. The Palace was a bit of a disappointment as they wouldn't let me in. The bird market was ...

  • 6

    Yogyakarta

    9 photos

    ... with everything easy to reach by foot and all spilling off the one main road.Walked down to the Sultans palace,where the bird market was with stalls full of hand local made bird cages and after walking round looking at the hundreds of birds in tiny ...

  • 7

    Yogyakarta

    69 photos

    ... Fantastic galleries of battic art, nice lanes particularly at dusk with the call to prayer drifting all around and one astonishing 'bird' market with the most eclectic livestock I've ever seen - puppies, bats, snakes, monkeys, cockroaches, cocks, orange ...

  • 8

    A Palava in Java

    10 photos

    ... upset and was threatening to liberate them all. We then visited Taman Sari, or the Water Castle, a short walk from the bird market, which was once a pleasure park of palaces and bathing pools for the Sultan and his entourage. It was originally built in ...

  • 9

    Yogyajakarta

    3 photos

    ... I mentioned this annoying fact of Yogya to the students that interviewed me but I know this won't make any difference. From the bird market, I noticed an old building in ruins that loomed far above the rest of this flat city.  Since it wasn't ...

  • 10

    Very cosy and appealing place

    1 photo

    ... . I bought 1 painting there and Sofia bought 2 and Esther bought 1.  We all loved the batik paintings and the next day we forgoed the bird market and palace and went to do a batik class for the day.  I was good fun but look a long time we were ...