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Yogyakarta Slideshow
Yogyakarta
Travel Blogs from Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Templing in Yogyakarta (& Swine Flu)
So our afternoon train brings us into Yogyakarta and we make a beeline for the 'mid-range' backpacker ghetto having already tried to book somewhere online. Duta Garden Hotel run an establishment of 3 units - one posh hotel, one guesthouse and one ...
Forget bungy jumping forget spiders and ...
... day of travel. We got on a public bus from Cemero Lawang to Probolinggo, where we were due to meet our bus to Yogyakarta. I don't think there is a word in the Indonesian language for full. The bus driver stopped every 5 meters for every local who ...
Hello Misterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
... one of the classes. We had an awesome time with Mia and Piety, going shopping and at dinner (she even tried to pay!). Mia even drove us all the way to our place that night! We are so excited to go to Borobudur tomorrow and enjoy our last day in ...
Borobudur and Prambanan
So today was the big day, the whole reason for us coming all the way to Java. Today we get to visit Borobudur temple. Borobudur is the world's largest single Buddhist monument and we were so excited to finally get there. We ended up going on a tour ...
Borobudor, Yogya & how to cook indonesian!
I am currently in Yogyakarta after a pitstop in Borobudor where I spent a night in a bamboo hut, bargained for batik dresses ($2 a pop) and made an unusual friend in Jamal, an elder local who was the proud owner of a home-made go-cart type vehicle and ...
So you think your temple is big then?
... a Kylie Muslim remix by the driver (kind of grows on you after a while) and I add another 9 hours to my journey. Yogyakarta is a stones throw away from two of the largest temples in Asia, Prambanan and Borobudur. The history is impressive, I join a ...
Yogyakarta
We left Surabaya on the 6pm train, expecting to arrive at Yogya at 7.30am. This was a slight miscalculation on my part. We were told by the train staff that we had reached Yogya at about midnight so full of joy we alighted onto the platform, the ...
Temples and holy sites
A 10 hour bus journey led us to the cultural heart of Java, Yogyakarta; the city is also one of the most popular domestic tourist destinations. We checked into our wonderful boutique hotel in the north of the city and were over the ...
Working in Yogya
I thought I'd tell you a bit about some of the work I've been doing. There are three organisations I am working with, and two are in Solo, but Matahariku (based in Yogya) are the most active. I've already spent quite a lot of time with people from ...
Palais d'eau / marche d'oiseaux
Salut tout le monde Nons allons......bien, Nous etions tres fatigue alors nous avons du aller faire dodo tot apres une saucette dans la piscine. Super c'est mieux que la douche froide. hihi (il n'y a pas d'eau chaude dans notre chambre) ...
Batik art and viavia cafe
... dus. Cogimos el tren, al menos otro tipo de transporte, la verdad era comodo y se podia fumar (jeje).... y nos fuimos a yogyakarta, en el medio de java y famosa por el batik, cierto, solo habia batik.... Alli estuvimos unos tres dias vagabundeando, ...
Another fix of temples
Yogyakarta, or just Yogya for short, is known as the cultural city of Java. The city itself has a few places worth looking round such as a couple of decent authentic Javanese markets, the Kraton walled palace area and Taman Sari water castle - all made ...
Escaping Yogyakarta
... iced coffee at the mall, we returned to the backpacker area, picked up our luggage, and waited at the train station. The train, unfortunately, was an hour late, but it came sure enough. By 3am, we were onboard, asleep, and our way out of Yogyakarta. ...
Barriers
... accessing what we want, or need. From this we started to think about the barriers that deaf people face here in Indonesia, using the idea of a wall that stops us from moving forward, a wall that stops us from getting into the future ...
Yogyakarta Day 121 (18th Sept)
... was quite cold because of the altitude we were at, I even had to call upon my trusty stone island jacket for the first time in Indonesia. After having a less than impressive spagetti Bolognese I crashed out on my bed ready for the climb of Bromo ...
Buddhism at its Finest
... of the stone stupas. After yet another restoration project, Borobudur is now the biggest tourist attraction in Indonesia and my primary motivation for heading to Yogyakarta. After a very long day of hiking Mount Bromo at sunrise and then sitting in a van ...
Noen dager på Java
... den lille klumpen i halsen trengte ikke lenge på å løse seg opp. Nye eventyr ventet, og rastløsheten hadde fått viljen sin. Yogyakarta, en by en smule større en Oslo i folketall svarte på ingen måte til mine forventninger. Yogya er kjent som det ...
Looking for a place called home
... the children! They are holding sessions for teachers of deaf, blind and mentally-impaired children from 60 special schools around Yogyakarta. My deaf colleagues are working with SASB to teach the 'total communication' method - this means teaching with a ...
Yogyakarta: Contrast of Java & Magic of Borobudur
February 22-25, 2009: Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia Charms and Pitfalls of a Large Javanese City I arrived on my overnight bus in Yogyakarta on Feb 22 and made my way by motorbike taxi to my guesthouse, the Jaya Losmen, on Gang II in ...
Yogy
... , which took 2 hours and it was fairly horrid. Very hot and uncomfortable. We changed at Surabaya and got a business class ticket to Yogyakarta. We had planned to go to Solo but changed our mind on the way (we keep doing that - the joy of traveling). ...
Random Pics of CIty life in Yogyakarta
Not much story here-- just a few interesting pics with a little narrative on ...
Batik & Indorock
... heard about Superman Is Dead, that the band was called, but Isabel informed us that they are the most popular rock/punk band in Indonesia. More people had turned up and it was really crowded when Superman Is Dead started to play and at the same time an ...
Yogyakarta
... Borobudur, passing the ash covered villages. It's a sad sight, but natural disasters seems to be the norm here in Indonesia. Straight for the stupas, I climbed the stairs to the farthest level. It's closed off for restoration from the volcano eruption. ...
Yogyakarta
... the stress of a celebrity lifestyle we opted to head back to the minibus and back to the hotel. Our last day in Yogyakarta, and indeed Java, was spent in the city looking at the Kraton, which is the Sultan's Palace. Being a relatively ...
Batik and Temples
After another very bumpy minibus ride away from the coast, we took the train to Yogyakarta, Central Java: Bisnis class. On this 4 hour trip the only difference from the economy train was a few fans in the ceiling, no sales people and a ticket that cost 6 ...
Volcanic Bromo Sunrise then Yogyakarta
... it you'd pay but if you didn't you'd give them back 21:00 We got off at Surabaya and bought new tickets from there to Yogyakarta, first class again, for only 90,000 (5.80) for a 400km/ 5 hour train ride away! I'm appalled at how much our train tickets ...
Back in Yogya
Am Montag bin ich also nach Yogyakarta geflogen. War ziemlich nervös, ob ich das alles auf die Reihe kriegen würde, aber ich bin gut angekommen, hab dem Taxifahrer verklickern können wo ich hin will und jetzt bin ich also in diesem ...
"The Big Durian"
... I got up there early--6am--before most of the tour groups arrived. Tomorrow I'm off to Solo, which is Yogyakarta's main rival in the competition to be the cultural capital of Java. From there I'm going to see some amazing temples and ...
Yogyakarta
Two days in Yogyakarta to see the awesome Bhudist complex at Borobudur, the largest in the world. Absolutely breathtaking. Our tour guide, Happy (really), was a fascinating guy, born a Muslim, but a keen studier of Bhudism and Christianity - he prays to ...