Hotel Asia Afrika Yogyakarta

... there and I immediately recognised some the style of some paintings, we had seen similar ones in the art shop the day before. He explained that the artists swap work with each other so that their work is available all over the gallery. The artist showed me one of his pieces, and funny enough it was a style that I had mentioned to Kate that I liked from the last gallery.<br><br>Meanwhile, Kate had been speaking to another artist who showed her his paintings. Coincidentally she ...

... it reminded me of the Great Ocean Road trip (good times!!). It was really cool and an adventure how the bus kept going up and up and up into the hills, it might have been the highest I have been in a bus. When we arrived at our hotel it 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 tommorow.

... entrance ticket, parking fee, guide service, drinking water.<br><br> Exclusions<br><br> Flight ticket from / to Jogja, airport<br> tax, personal expenses, accommodation and any other item not specified as<br> inclusions.<br><br> What to bring<br><br> Comfortable outfit (shorts and<br> t-shirt), sport shoes or strap sandals, sun screen, hat, your fit body<br><br> <br><br>

... comes with it's own legend; "After her father King Boko was defeated in battle, the Javanese princess Loro Jonggrang reluctantly agreed to marry his victor Prince Bandung, but only if he built a temple with 1000 statues before sunrise. With the help of spirits, Bandung had completed 999, when the princess lit a fire to the east of the temple. Fooled into thinking it was dawn, roosters in the neighboring village crowed and the spirits fled &#8212; and a furious ...

What to write about Yogyakarta (pronounced Jogjakarta, generally just called Jogja)...I have been here quite a while and have done so much that I don't know where to begin!!! I seriously feel like I have been here forever, but it has been under a week. I kept busy, to say the least. My initial impression of Jogja wasn't the best. A fellow traveler once told me that Jogja is like Ubud, only bigger and better...but I have no idea where she got that idea, because it is nothing like ...

... at this time i would like to say if any of you would like to see the pictures of this and are not already on my photo mailing list, just email me and i will be more then happy to add you! The second stop of the morning after the sunrise was up to the base of the still steaming Mt. Bromo where there was a trail through the moonscape and then a stairway ascending to the very precipice of this beast. this is something i dont think you would ever be allowed to do in ...

... Yet, traveling around Yogya, I saw endless poverty with poorly constructed shantytowns squeezed in between the cracks. Outside of Yogya, in Java, there was even more poverty as there are constant street beggars and never-ending stalls of hopeless merchants selling absolutely useless stuff that has clearly been on the shelf for a long time. I understand that Indonesia has a massive population, but compared with some of ...

... da restare a bocca aperta. Alla fine del concerto io e Matthew andiamo a conoscerli; inutile dire che ha cominciato a piovere birra da ogni parte e dopo un po' ci hanno invitato nel loro "ufficio". Ovvero la panchina lungo la strada di cui vi parlavo prima. Vaghi ricordi, tipo il maltese che prende in mano la situazione e comincia a suonare, visto che in Australia si guadagnava da vivere cosi', una bottiglia di orripilante whiskey indonesiano, almeno una ...

... off to find a more reasonable beer round a couple of corners on Jalan Prawirotaman I. And we did find an excellent spot (the name of which strangely escapes me) where large Bintangs were ours for 15,000 rupiah a pop. Mind you we did have to suffer a troupe of Elvis impersonators ( how unlikely is that in Central Java ? ) and a rambling conversation with a bloke who makes trumpets and had once visited Somerset in the UK as a guest musician. Next morning it was up far ...

... and its surrounding and made our morning excursion enjoyable. However, it was pretty awful seeing a lot of Buddha's heads were missing because people stole them for money :(<br>To learn more about Borobudur temple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur< br> <br>After a couple of hours of exploring the temple, we were ready to head back to our ...