Nice Souvenirs From The Zoo

After a long debate with my 2 turtles on where to put this post, we finally came up with a decision to put it here in my blog.

I have already shared a series of pictures on the big cat (he will appear once more in here) in Kame & Kroten’s blog…it is only fair to put the rest of the animals here, I couldn’t let too many animals roam around my turtles’ blog. Kame and Kroten will be furious if I did such a thing.

I visited the Ragunan Zoo 2 weeks ago. Although it was sad to see animals in cage but zoo is not to be blamed because it is the only way we can see those animals directly. I have several pictures with cute theme to lay upon them. The quality is not always good as I was using ordinary pocket camera.

Here are my favorite pictures:

It’s been a tiring day, I need to lay back a little

This big guy is featured in A Cute Big Cat

Indonesia Banget #6: Topeng Monyet

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It’s the 17th day of January…that only means 1 thing! Its time for my monthly post on things found (hopely) only in Indonesia.

I believe everybody knows about snake dance in India but no one knows that we also have animal show, not with snake but with monkey

This month I am going to talk about Topeng Monyet. Topeng means mask and monyet means Monkey, so…literally Topeng Monyet means Monkey Mask…but I kinda think that it’ll be better to translate it as Monkey Circus as it is showing monkey doing some tricks to entertain people. This small circus is same with street performance. Street performance in Indonesia is different than street performance in developed country, the performers will come from house to house or area to area instead of waiting in one spot and hoping people will notice them. Some do stay in one spot but mostly they will walk around suburban area.

The show is called topeng monyet because sometimes, the monkey will perform using a mask on its face. The performers usually consist of 2-4 people and 1 monkey. They will carry some percussion as back ground music during the monkey’s performance. The monkey is tied to a long chain controlled by the people. It has to be chained because they couldn’t let the monkey suddenly attacks the watcher. Their targeted watchers are small children.