Rumah Palagan Yogyakarta

... for the long trip ahead of us. There are three classes of trains that I knew of we could catch, the first one being for the general public, affectionately known by the locals as chicken class (because of the amount of chickens being transported in the carriages). The second was bisnis class, a step up from a regular train but by no means luxurious, and the third being eksekutif class, which was the top of the range. We had booked in bisnis class which was great as we had ...

... pace from the white bread that you get in most hostels. We then supplemented with omlettes and fresh squeezed juice next door. One thing that we were warned about in the travel books, but didn't quite understand fully, were the people dragging you into "their" art studios. Until...Kevin got trapped that morning. Being slowly drawn into some back alley and given a tour of the studio and production process, Kevin began to realize what ...

... work is in progress. I met a group of Indonesian students who were nice and friendly. I chatted with them whilst we looked around the temples and they offered me a lift back to Malioborough street, not far from my hostel, which was kind of them. In the evening I needed to use the internet for my blog and to skype mum and happened to meet Stu, a guy I briefly met in Jakarta, he too had plans for leaving ...

... Tracey out of the place after she started getting upset and was threatening to liberate them all. We then visited Taman Sari, or the Water Castle, a short walk from the bird market, which was once a pleasure park of palaces and bathing pools for the Sultan and his entourage. It was originally built in 1758 but was ruined over the years by war and earthquakes and is now in the process of being restored.

The main reason for our visit to Yogya (well ...

... relented and let two of us in for the student price which saved us a little money].

The main site consists of four temples scattered around the large complex. The one you will see first, and the most popular of the four temples, is called 'Candi Lara Jonggrang' (otherwise known as 'Candi Prambanan'). Candi Prambanan originally hosted 232 temples, but most have been reduced to rubble. People visit Candi Prambanan too see the main six temples in the ...

... ze mna przywitac. Zdaje sobie sprawe, ze niejeden pierwszy raz uscisnal dlon bialemu. Pierwszy raz na Jawie spotkalismy tak szczerze serdecznych i zyczliwych ludzi.
Oczywiscie nie bylo tu alkoholu i nikt niczego pod stolikami nie polewal, muzulmanie po prostu nie pija.
Z usmiechem i pozytywna energia wracamy do naszej villi. Musimy sie przepakowac na jutro. Przewodnik zaprasza nas jeszcze na nasi goreng (ryz smazony) na kolacje.
O 20-tej idziemy spac. Mamy 4,5h snu.

... temple. We had Nasi Pucel for lunch from a local vendor in the grounds, which was a rice and tofu based spicy dish, served in a banana leaf rapped in paper! We ate in a touristy restaurant, paying around £1 for food instead of 30 pence each, and met a couple of English girls that had come from Mount Bromo, where we planned to go in a few days time. As they had just started travelling, their reactions were comical to us due to their ...

... ceiling fans.... Also i am looking forward to a break from the unrelenting heat every day it hovers around 40 and a cool evening maybe gets down to 28, its funny coz back home 28 feels really hot but here 28 is like cool and refreshing. Well not much else to say perhaps that i havn't been sleeping well my pillow is made of concrete my shower is a bucket and the toilet is a hole :P and the bathroom is like a hot humid sauna but doesn't smell fresh....

... I was wrong. So what Mohammad could not awaken, my new neighbors took care of. Yesterday I saw on the clock it was 6 PM, so I wandered down the street for dinner. It felt like the sun was pretty high in the sky for 6:00. When I got to the warung I eat at, the clock there said 4:30. I asked a waitress, who checked her cell phone, and it was 4:30. I walked back to the Agung and found the girl I am tutoring English and asked about ...

... to the Manguntur Tangkil hall where the Sultan holds audience. The palace today retains the atmosphere of a by gone era through the installations of lifesize wedding and palace meeting dioramas, traditional Javanese gamelan orchestras, antiques and heirlooms which adorn the royal buildings. this is good vacation destination on Yogyakarta.