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A short blog today, festivities are full force, so pretty busy!

The entry to the event venue yesterday was just massive! wowh, I felt like a rock star, BBT has a really good name here!

Our friend Anto from Terror Garage fame drove me to the event with his recently acquired Rometsch…  after a round of honor over the venue right up to the main stage, Welcome was overwhelming… I had to stand almost 15 minutes  on the stage before all photographer could do their job!

I thanked my friend Anto incredible for my drive up and entree, something many press people could appreciate a lot!

Even a larger surprise, friend Wawan and Rawshid from SmartVolsWorks fame  made a real PR bus for me, with my pictures on it! Unbelievable! From comments on my email this morning I can tell these pictures been largely shared already all over facebook…. so nice heartwarming!

Thank You Wawan for the invitation, after all it was your idea! And thanks for hospitality and reception, it is unbelievable supertastic!

Welcome welcome, what we see is mind blowing, never seen before, Yogya VW fest is a real VW party! with all kind of art, with loads of visitors, but especially with real stars… the cars!

Welcome to Yogyakarta VW festival, a full report follow in the next days as they expect me now back to the venue…

Believe me, it is massive…. my report will be spread in the next coming days…. too much for one blog…

This very first day we decided to kick of the whole event with a little group to experience the sunrise at the Borobudur Temple, this is the largest Buddhist temple in the world, and sunrise seems to be a very special experience there… we love to share this experience with You.

If we do something we do something in style! Before our Hotel lobby, Friday morning 03.30hr….

Buda and friends from Dakota club Indonesia (they call split window buses here Dakota, like the split window of the well known airplane) brought out 5 splits to do this trip, once we saw the buses we forgot the way too early hour right a way! The drive was magic!

We rushed the splits through early morning traffic, believe me, traffic never stops in Indonesia! we drove about one hour and a little bit… This was the first view on the Borobudur Temple, its so MASSIVE!
Everything was nicely arranged and we rushed to to tops, many many steps, especially large steps! The early morning view was exciting!

let the show begin…

unbelievable spectacle of colors, wowh, its only take 5 or 6 minutes, but so beautiful, it must be the work of the Gods!

The temple itself is impressive as well, unbelievable big, incredible build, a whole story and history, the Temple was even “lost” for quiet a couple of centuries! I try to imagine how You can loose such a large work of art…

There is 10 stories, starting from the bottom, clock wise from the east You can learn all about Buddhism and life, as after all that’s what’s Buddhism is all about… it read like a comic, and is made in all Buddha signs You can imagine… every art work is like a page, sometimes one line, sometimes two or more… I really hope I can come back one day and take my time to follow the whole way bottom to top…

an incredible massive building, with still many secrets…

After the visit we had a healthy local breakfast and decided to do some picture shooting from the buses in the entry park… welcome to tropical Indonesia…

the five buses from our little convoy!

On the way back we did a little detour and we had to fuel up… this is DIRTY CHEAP, only 0.50 Euro for a litre!!! This must be a country of dream!

driving back the back roads was amazing, little farmers, working on their rice fields, all so natural, so simple, this is far away from our Western European hectic lives!

I even found a new weekend job at a local place!  Salak are brown fruits, very well tasting! We bought many!

Same stop I tried to get some “art pictures” local people, nice local setting and old VW’s, it don’t get better! The girl was so funny, I took at least 10 pictures with her!

Hi Buda, and Thanks so much for this trip, wowh man, You and the Dakota people really took care for us this morning….! How can we ever thank You????

Local transport, yes, this still exist in 2013! Do You think these guy’s are worried about the capacity of a the new i phone? Happy life, easy, slow, and working… life can be simple!

Friday night was opening dinner, as a guest of honor we shared the table with the president of the Jogjakarta VW club, the organizer of this show!

Entertainment came from a century old native dance from Hindu period, I thought it was quiet fascinating!

and after that there was a little speech from yours truly…

To be continued with the official pictures… left of me the president of the Federation of all Indonesian VW clubs, “Volkswagen Indonesia” they shelter no less then 75! clubs! Only Volkswagen! On my right the very special guest of this VW show, the Indonesian Minister of Sport and Youth, a real enthusiast and vivid Mercedes Benz and VW collector, what an honor to get a picture with these two important people!

and a picture with all representatives from the participating clubs to the event… wowh!

to finish the obligated “red carpet” picture from our family…

today we will enter the show grounds to report tomorrow, so stay tuned!

We had to say goodbye to Yanto today, as we will travel with Wawan to Yogyakarta…
But the way to the airport was “pretty special”…. as everything when you hang out with Yanto…

Thanks God we didn’t had to drive the scooter, as they have a lot of traffic problems too!

And thanks God we didn’t had to work power lines neither… what a mess…

Down the road we stopped for some traditional Bandung food for lunch…

Yanto shows us how to eat Sambal, just pour in a good shot of Soy oil, now we know…

Typical marionette puppets, extreme cool, and plenty around!

Another traffic queue, and we think Antwerp traffic is bad?????

The propeller airplane is waiting….

Hey wait Wawan, we fly with you…

Thank You!

Our ride for the weekend wait for us at the airport, off course with driver, as Jogjakarta has loads of scooters too! Way to dangerous for skinny European drivers, you need real balls to drive a car here, and at least 14 eyes all around of your head….

And Wawan’s own Mitsubishi Diesel powered bus, a real luxury saloon on wheels!

After dinner, a nice picture…. Thanks so much to Smart Volksworks and Wawan, to arrange this ride for us!

With FIVE on one scooter, helmets? what helmets…. crazy traffic in Indonesia… and everybody is happy and friendly….

We go to bed early as we have to get up very early for a once in a lifetime experience, a mix of culture and VW, so stay tuned!