I was lucky to get a nice tour guide. He's not an official guide from the local government or a historian. He's only an old man, a local resident who is allowed to be tour guide by Kraton Jogja, like some other people there.
Ridwan and I didn't intend to hire a guide, but this old man greeted us kindly. I think that's not wrong if he guides us. Because not many things that we can see in Taman Sari. Most of the former palace has been the form of debris. Only a pool that has been renovated.
My intuition was not wrong. This old man, I forgot his name, told different things by the results of my research. The explanation of my tour guide makes me increasingly understood that the Taman Sari was built for a king to have fun, and increasingly impressed me because at that time there's existing advanced technology in a simple way.
Check this first!
See the tower at the top? From there the sultan peeked his wives who were bathing in the pool. If he wants one of them to accompany him, he will throw his handkerchief to his choice.
In ancient times, besides the sultan, only women are allowed to enter into this complex. This is possible because all the women in (empress, wife, concubine and the sultan's daughter) who get into this garden should be loose clothes (naked), so that men are strictly forbidden by the sultan to get into the garden.
The west wing building is where the wives and princess change their clothes |
The bath tubes |
This is a bed that is used by one of the sultan of Jogja in the former building of Taman Sari resort. The length of this bed more than two feet and made of cast concrete. So huge! |
Under the bed there are holes for inserting firewood to warm the bed. On the front wall of bed is a former big mirror that was almost covered the walls, with a height equal to the bed. Please you guys think the function ;)
Arrange the rocks in this hole, and you will get a beautiful tone that you want! |
This is not just a ventilation hole in the wall. This form is a symbol of married and sexual life. But don't ask me. I forgot! Hahaha... |
All plants at Taman Sari has efficacy for virility, fertility and sexual problems. |
Still a lot of unique things and erotic at Taman Sari. Unfortunately I lost some precious photos. Later I'll go back there and tell it to you with a better picture, OK? ;)
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Note: All of the photos are my private stuff.
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Note: All of the photos are my private stuff.