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TravelPod Member ReviewsMerapi Volcano Yogyakarta
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Didn't climb it
henniterness 18 contributions Toronto, Canada Apr 19, 2011
Nice walk on its foot. It rained, but very interesting. See pix.
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Merapi Volcano Yogyakarta
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Joe-ja!
Next stop: Yogyakarta, Java's centre of art. Pronounced Joe-jakarta. We flew from Jakarta in a quick hop. Thomas, the manager of the hostel we booked, awaits us at the airport. He is from Papua, another Indonesian island. We learn that he has an anger management issue, which is typical of Papuan people. He calls it a 'temper’. We have a hard …
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...tour around Yogya #2.
From Borobudur we hopped back on our scooter and tried to find our way to the Merapi Volcano viewpoint. Still active, the volcano is considered to be very dangerous. We wanted to trek up the mountain but the logistics of the operation were too complicated, time consuming, and expensive. We opted for a viewpoint across from the volcano.
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Related BlogsMerapi Volcano Yogyakarta
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In Merapi's shadow
... (long) Dieng Plateau trip which was rather a poor man's Roturua & we got a lot of tropical rain. We returned via a Merapi volcano evacuees shelter & donated the rest of the clothes we had bought out - there was a whole village there with no real ...
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Yogyakarta
... cities of Solo and bigger Yogyakarta, the temples of Borobudur and Prambanan close by, the active Merapi volcano and, without doubt, the massive capital of Indonesia, JAKARTA. Solo's night food stalls that lined the streets were the towns highlight. ...
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Why is there no one here?
... and dredging the river for ash. Apparently the town had only just opened up again after a bout of eruption by the nearby Merapi volcano; lucky timing! This also meant that the nearby temples were closed as they were still covered in ash which gave us ...
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Merapi eruption period...
... ;a typical tourist tour of town. My first impression of the city was a big ashtray!!I actually arrived there when Merapi volcano, the most active of Indonesia, was already erupting for a few days. I have mixed feeling about my visit in Yogya...i didn't ...
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Yogyajakarta
... were able to find stairs which led us to the top of the ruins and this was an excellent spot to see Yogyakarta and the Merapi volcano looming in the background. I personally found this much more rewarding than the part of the kraton that we paid ...
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Yogyarkarta
... had a great view from the top. On the drive to Borobudur, we saw the remains of deserted towns from the recent Mount Merapi volcano eruption and it went on for miles. There were people with shovels still trying to rescue their homes. In the afternoon, I ...
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Batik and Temples
... , but luckily we had GPS and an Indonesian sim card on the phone. It was all worth it! What an amazing sight! And the Merapi volcano in the background letting off steam; it's an active volcano that last erupted in October last year. We spent ...
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Hiding from the Batik students
... some batiks today (yeah I got some little ones), I decided Ive had enough of this city...scrapped my plans to visit Merapi Volcano (the one that errupted earlier this year...there has been so much devastation to this city this year...volcano, earthquake, ...
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its too hot to jog in Jogya
... , we were delayed a bit by 200 locals digging out their town from under 10 feet of ash that had been deposited there by the Merapi volcano (and the subsequent ash flows), which had erupted in late November of last year. Its amazing to me how many natural ...
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Joe-ja!
... fall sick, so their experience of this stop is a tad tainted. We cover a little of Yogya town, see Borobudur, Merapi volcano and Ramayana Ballet besides the stunning temples of Prambanan. Borobudur: A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Indonesia’s single ...
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