Duta Garden Hotel Yogyakarta

... Kraton Yogyakarta building, represent the exisstance of the Yogyakarta kingdom.

The building itslef also represent the symbol of real Javanese building with its "joglo" type.
The big hall reprsent the big society of Javanese.

Student Town
It is here, Yogyakarta has more than a hundred ...

... and got public transportation instead. Very proud of ourselves for that. The temple grounds themselves are several acres. There was an earthquake a few years ago that toppled many of the structures, but most of it has been rebuilt. The part that I liked about this temple was that it was all the original stones and reliefs. Well, probably a few had to be re-made but they pretty much just found all the pieces and ...

... interesting ride because we first drove down into the extinct volcano and across its long dead caldera and then back out and up its lip up into the heavens seemingly until we were soon awarded with one of the more amazing views i have ever witnessed. the sun was just starting to rise over a chain of volcanos in the distance off to the left (dont ask me their names please) while right in front of us we had the view of the three volcanos growing out of the much older ...

... And I didn't even see Jakarta or the conditions of its infamous sweatshops. I learned from my cab driver that despite the current government's highly successful education and health care related initiatives, there are frequent power outages, there are poor schools and there are many that have to pay for basic healthcare. I also learned that, contrary to what I had been told, there is a flat 25% federal income tax ...

... tipo "Siete finti italiani; ci siamo dimenticati di conquistarvi perche' l'isola e' troppo piccola" o cose del genere. Le reazioni mi fanno capire che sono piccoli ma orgogliosi. Luke parla anche italiano, ma in generale (quando non vogliono farsi capire) si mettono a parlare maltese, lingua di cui ignoravo l'esistenza. Date le esperienze frustranti con i locali, hanno deciso di cambiare Paese ogni giorno, quando qualcuno gli chiede da dove vengono. "Domani ...

... a light lunch in the very civilised Ministry of Coffee Cafe round the corner on Jalan Prawirotaman I. That morning some of them had visited the Yogyakarta bird/animal market and at a cafe between the market and the Water Palace they had met what they described as a baby sloth in the teapot. When they showed me their photos of this cute creature I set off immediately across the hot heart of Yogyakarta, guided by a curious mixture of touts and off duty Gamelan ...