lake toba, indonesia

during her visit to indonesia in october of 1984, hrh the princess spent a night at lake toba, a large natural lake in sumatra. on october 7, she painted a picture of the lake as a reminder. she illustrated in her book, “chom chomalatee” as follows: last night i woke up several times as i was eager to get up early to enjoy the morning bliss. i got up at 5 am. it was still dark so i did some writing until 6:30 am. it’s breakfast time, which consisted of rice and gold fish from the lake. after breakfast, i went out to paint by the lake with the indonesian ambassador, his wife, and the wife of thai ambassador as my cheer squad. at 8 am, the sheriff took me to a pier. she lauded the lake as “beautiful with the water very clean and perhaps so deep that it looked as blue as the sea. this painting was done later after the sketch she had drawn that day and she graciously had it taken to be the new year card of 1985 delivered to the acquaintance in the indonesian trip.