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Timuran MG.III/103 Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, 55153, 62-274-373482

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 homestay programme. The guesthouse was pretty smart with a nice big swimming pool and the best breakfast yet (it let itself down slightly later....) Our first day we visited the Sultans Old Palace (Kraton) in the city centre and avoided the cyclo dri...
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia danstravelworldSo this is our last big stop before we complete the circle and head back to Singapore. It isn't highly recommended, as you can see from this blog, but we found it to be perfectly fine. Although, when Lisa did go out on her own, she did get a bit of grief from the local guys. Wonderful culture that enables you to leer and heckle strangers. Yogyakarta, or Jogyakarta, or Jogja depending on who you speak to, is a pretty nice town with a historic citadel in the middle called the Kraton. But, to be...
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia lisamcsherry3am Friday morning, my "Argo Elis, Eksekutif Klas" (or something like that) train pulled into the Yogyakarta train station. I woke up to find that my glasses had somehow lost a screw in the middle of the night, setting one of the lenses loose. Not to worry, I found the lenses, and deployed the contacts immediately. The two Spaniards and I set off into the adjacent budget guest house enclave and fended off an army of touts (they're not as annoying here as in Nepal) claiming everything was full...
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia sirrocko711Picking up where I left off last time... After a relaxing stroll through the Kraton, I began some aimless wandering around the old town. A voice rang out: "Hello! I must talk to you because you have white skin." Turns out he was an innocent English teacher looking for someone to practice with and sat me down under a banyan tree to chat. He makes most of his money by touring the US demonstrating and selling his batik paintings (traditional Javanese cloth & wax artwork), and returns to Ind...
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia sirrocko711
... 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 ...
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia jasi... 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 ...
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia nealinthailand... 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 ...
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia chiapoe... 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 ...
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia planetvale... 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 ...
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia keithb6
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