Beggianfeel Hotel Yogyakarta

... the authority on everything. He asked us our travel itineraries then proceeded to tell us what was wrong with them and where exactly we needed to stay at each place we intended to visit. He then saw Lisa eating a mango and took this as a queue to talk for at least one minute about why his favourite fruit is the banana, and also why he's a vegetarian. We all kept looking away in an attempt to make him shut up, but someone who is so socially inept is oblivious to ...

Every 17th of August the Indonesians celebrate its independence day. It has become a cultural tradition in many parts of Indonesia to play what they call "panjat pinang". The activity involves men climbing each others' back to get prizes up an oily pole. The point of the event I think is to get people to work as hard as they can until they can get all the prizes hanging up the pole on a round hoop, which usually starts in the morning until late ...

After our Bromo climb we bundled into a minivan and hossed it to Yogyakarta, home to Indonesia's 'must see' Borobador temple.<br> <br>Yogyakarta turned out to be one of our top Indonesian Cities, Very clean very friendly and a lot more relaxed than Jakarta. We organised a trip to the temple, stopping off at a silver factory along the way. <br>As far as Temples go, Borobador is pretty impressive ...

... now I will return home with crazy-looking scars on my toes and heels that weren&#8217;t there before. Hanan even got a mosquito bite on the bottom of this foot! Those hurt real bad. Most guesthouses that acknowledge their susceptibility to mosquitoes will provide a decent net that drapes over the bed, and those are actually quite nice to sleep under because you don&#8217;t have to worry if your limbs are sticking out of the sheets for fear that they might get bitten. Bed bugs, however ...

... up an hour or two earlier than the other lazy bums so I could get a few things done before we left for Vietnam. I got some money changed, went to the internet cafe, and bought two new pairs of 3/4 length trousers after selling my initial new pair to Tom. On my travels I bumped into 6 Indonesians wanting to talk to me, or sell me things. Maybe Tom's unicorn stories are indeed true; you do get approached more when on your lonesome [Tom: No doubt about it!]. <br><br>In ...

... out with geography teachers!!). Had a few beers in the evening and the next day off to the Dieng Plateau, an area that had been recomended I visit.<br><br>A long drive to get there with possibly THE worlds worst driver even by Asian standards. He insisted on driving nearly everywhere in second gear and loved overtaking on blind corners. We visited some lakes, an active volcano with a boiling mud pool and still more temples. The best/worst part of the day was Josef, our english speaking ...

... It was called Prambanan. When we got there we once again had to pay $11 to get in when the locals paid about 70p. The temple had been badly damaged in an Earthquake than happened here in 2006, so much of it was structurally unsafe and therefore out of bounds. But we walked around some of it, that looked like a small version of Angkor Wat. We had lunch at the restaurant and admired the deer in the field, who were very timid. The complex was made up of 4 temples ...

... cherishing his brand new vehicle which probably set him back a few cows and his virgin daughter drove at an agonizing 3-5 mph whenever there was a bump in the road and you can just imagine how slow it became when there was no road to speak of. Finally we arrived at the coffee plantation which is right smack in the middle of a huge (145km wide) extinct volcano (do you see a pattern emerging here?). the suv pulled up to the guest house that they had built ...

... the surface water around you, spewing out of holes in the ground, is boiling at your feet. Gases escape from small holes and finally, a big, black oil-like pit of water bubbles away given off fantastic heat. After Dieng we visited the magnificent temple at Borobadur. Again hewn from the local rock, this is a huge, imposing structure built on levels with intricate carvings, Buddha statues and stupors (upturned ice-cream cones hiding meditating Buddhas). The ...

... her promise of the best funny T-shirt shop in the universe being close by to this restaurant - hilarious Western sized T-shirts for $1.50 CAD each. How could we resist? Our driver had no clue where it was and after driving up and down Jalan Kaliurang a couple of times, Trev spotted a Steak, Shake, and Shisha restaurant. Perfect. We hopped out of the van telling our driver we were done with our tour and would find our way back to the hotel. Wow ...