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Ancient ruins, Architectural building, Religious site, Historic site, Ballet
TravelPod Member ReviewsPrambanan Temples Yogyakarta
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Prambanan Temple
mimpi 6 contributions Jakarta, Indonesia Oct 22, 2012
Prambanan temple is one of heritage in Indonesia.
The legend of Bandung Bondowoso has built a thousand of statues for one night as a request of a beautiful Princess named Roro Jonggrang daughter of a King named Prabu Boko, the Princess refused him conditionally because her father has been killed by Bandung Bondowoso.This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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Amazing
mickariane 0 contribution Paris, France Sep 28, 2012
Don't miss out on the visit, which can be done on a single day with Borobudur.
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Hindu wonder
dutoiz 7 contributions Fourqueux, France Sep 17, 2012
Very beautiful temples you can enter. Definitely worth seing, more intimate than Borobudur.
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Nice to see but more a quick glance
broesen 2 contributions Münster, Germany May 7, 2012
Better get a guide to find some explanation to the religious background of the temples... otherwise you might loose interest soon
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Part Three ( The Great Prambanan Temple )
wildan_ 0 contribution Indonesia Mar 28, 2012
The Great Prambanan Temple
From madukismo, we continued the outdoor activity to Prambanan Temple. This temple location was long from Madukismo. Time that needed to arrived in the temple is about 30 minutes. We went to the place by our bus. In the tour, I saw more wet rice field that wide and were planted by rice, or other plants. I also saw some farmers who were working and mountain from the distance. My tour was very comfortable and running well.But in bus i fell slepy and i slep in here.But suddenly i was waked up by yudha , and he tell me if we arrived in the location.
When, we were arrived in the place, we eaten a foods and snack before entered the temple. The food was delicious. I eaten it until finished. After all students were finished, we started to entered the Temple through enter door. We have to queue and gave the tickets to the agent. In the around of temple, the place was fresh and clean. More of grasses and plants were planted in the around of place and it makethe place looked very green. But, to went to the temple, we must walk about 200 meters. In the street, we were given information by guide about story and history of Prambanan Temple. Prambanan temple was location on Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It's also called Candi Sewu or Candi Roro Jongrang. Prambanan was builded on Yogyakarta. This location was interested to be visited. According the story from Buddha's culture, Prambanan Temple was maked by Bandung Bondowoso who was delegated by Nyi Roro Jonggrang. And Bandung Bondowoso had to finished his task for 1 day and the temple was 1000. But, for 1 day, He just maked 999 temples. So,he used his power to maked Nyi Roro become the last temple. In the inside of the temples,there are many of the beautifull scenery so,i and my friend took photo's in here .
In here there are many of piece of detritus of the temple i didn't know what that can maked it. But take the pictures..............This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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Buddhists 1 Hindus 0
comfortablynumb 6 contributions Mandurah, Australia Nov 4, 2011
Prambanan was a beautiful temple to visit. It is, however a bit of an anticlimax after visiting Borobudur the day before. We admired the durability of the amazing detail in the rock carvings over all this time. We will visit again in the dry season so we can see the sunset at the temples and watch the traditional dance performance with the temple lit up in beautiful colour in the night.
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Stunning
utamifajari 5 contributions Indonesia Jul 9, 2011
Beautiful Temple.. Breathtaking .. the temple still cantik / beautifull even it got little crashed because earthquake hit Jogja.. the park was so lovely and clean.. and there are lots deers near the temples.. cute ..
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Night view amazing
henniterness 18 contributions Toronto, Canada Apr 19, 2011
Sadly missed out on this during the day. Must return.
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Prambanan Temples Yogyakarta
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Sultans, slangen en sateh
Vanuit Bangkok hebben we de oversteek gemaakt naar de eilanden van Indonesië. Met de nodige stress zijn we gelukkig op tijd bij het vliegveld gekomen. Waar we normaal gesproken meer dan ruim op tijd met de tuktuk en de trein naar Bangkok Don Meuang verttrokken, liep het nu allemaal even anders. Het was file en we hadden een beleefde tuktuk die niet …
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Yogya, here we come!
One of the great temples that I'd been wishing to visit. Although the temples here are not as grand as the ones in Siem Riep in Cambodia, Prambanan and Borobudur are unique in their own ways. Finally....I'm here. The time for the tour was not that suitable as December brings tons of rain...still had a great time despite 2 days of rain and gloomy …
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Yogya - Cultural Capital of Java
Yogyakarta, short Yogya, is Java's most popular tourist city. …
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Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta is the urban cultural centre of Java, and appropriately, our home for a week there was a funky gallery and family-run hotel (losmen) with art on every wall. Figures swirled like genies out of huge open hands and geckos were painted on every ceiling. Sculptures and batiks covered every flat surface. There were two roof-top terraces and …
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I left my heart-a in Yogyakarta
Ever since I learned about gamelan music in Java I wanted to experience it live and at it's birthplace. The gamelan is like a type of orchestra that plays music in interlocking rhythms. Gamelan music is fairly popular within college ethnomusicology courses and it can be heard daily in Yogyakarta. Yogyakarta is the cultural heart of Java and we …
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Retomando la senda mística... templos en indonesia
Llegamos de noche…bien de noche…tras 11 horas en una van que se movía como juguera dado la calidad de los caminos, aún llenos de ceniza de los volcanes y la verdad es que bien cerdos…pero llegamos, tras haber avanzado apenas 380 kms...
Yogyarkarta es una ciudad grande, pero bien amigable. Nuestro hostel estaba en la … -
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Hindu history and modern Yogyakarta
After been left in awe of the beauty of the ancient Buddhist architecture at Borobudur we decided to see what the ancient Hindu's have to offer. We where not disappointed by the Prambanan and Sewu temples to the East of Yogyakarta city. There aren't many signs to assist with finding them so although we knew we where on the correct road we weren't …
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Pram-ba-nana
I had to think of bananas to finally get the name of this temple right. And later on, I happened to read a short story by some author who referred to it as Pramadan, obviously confusing it with Ramadan. Come on, really???
I loved hanging out at the Prambanan temple complex. I roamed around it for hours! This "National Archaeological Park … -
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Temples and trees
So there I was in Yogjakarta. We
arrived very late the first night. 1st day was relax day
by the pool with Leen. My Dutch friend Haitske whom I had met on
Komodo coincidentally landed in Yogja, so she joined us in our
laziness ! The evening was nice, we went for dinner in the
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Prambanan Hindu Temple
Prambanan Temple is constructed in the 10th century during the reigns of King Rakai Pikatan and King Rakai Balitung. Soaring up to 47 m (5 m higher than Borobudur Temple), the foundation of this temple has fulfilled the desire of the founder to show Hindu triumph in Java Island. This temple is located 17 km from the city center, among an area that …
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Big Fish Little Fish, Hotel is a cardboard box
... guy we were with spoke a bit of Indonesian and asked them for money to take a photo, good lad. Next up was the Prambanan temples which resemble the Angkor Wat towers. We stayed there a couple of hours, feeding the deer (NOT a euphemism), listened to a ...
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Borobudur and Prambanan
... from our time in Bali, we have learnt a little about the Hindu religion and we felt able to understand and interpret the Prambanan temples a lot better because of our knowledge. After we had finished at Prambanan we headed back to the hotel and caught ...
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Oh no! Bali Belly!
... Ballet, which is not a ballet in the western sense, but simply a dance and musical performance. The lit Prambanan Temples served as the backdrop and when the full moon hovered just over the tallest tower, it seemed almost surreal - ...
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Good temples, good food, rubbish palace
... even open as a sign of good luck, two free fresh orange juices. Much more spectacular than the palace are the Prambanan temples just outside Yogya - well preserved 9th century Hindu and Buddhist temples. The main Hindu temples look quite Indian, though ...
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Yogyakarta
... world historical site. We did get tickets to the Ramayana performance, which was spectacular against a backdrop of the lit-up Prambanan temples and the full moon. The next morning we were up early again. We had scheduled transportation to two areas ...
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Borobudur/Prambanan Temples
... I've been spoiled with the last few days and the bed is rock hard but it is cheaper. Today I went to see the temples of Borobudur and Prambanan. I decided to opt for the cheaper route and got the public bus. I think I saved quite a bit of money but it ...
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at the ballet..
ok so today we went to see the ramayana ballet at the prambanan temples. in simpler words: we went to see a ballet telling a local story near yogya. the open-air theatre is right next to the prambanan temples, which is very gorgeous. instead of booking a ...
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JogJakarta ( or Jogja as the locals call it)
... a glimpse of the single dancer moving robotically to the rhythm of the clashing music, and agin decided to dip out. Having been introduced to yoyga " the cultural heart of java" we wilt ready to tackle the famous Borodudur and prambanan temples ...
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Raindrops....
... the last cheap room for us. We dropped off our still dirty laundry again and rented a bike to ride around town and the Borobudur and Prambanan temples the next day. Yogya was made out to me to be a great city with lots to see and a great vibe going on. ...
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You wanna buy an elephant?
... had her Indonesian book and was able to communicate with him on some level. We headed out to visit the Mendut, Borobudur and Prambanan temples and Mount Merapi. We stop to have chicken soup (sop ayam) for breakfast and find out that we are expected to ...
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