Hotel Brongto Yogyakarta

... a surprise... they all wanted photos with me, Devon and Robert. This actually got really tedious, especially the people taking photos without our permission. What I find so silly is imagining them later on, pouring over these photos of themselves with white people. Why so amazing?! We left after half an hour. Back at the hostel me and Devon went back to the dorm and stayed up chatting till about 4am, despite the fact that Devon had to leave for his train at 7am!

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... no sink, just scoop from the bath and the pool had a green slimy bottom, which was being “cleaned” – not hopeful for a swim!

We rested for a bit and then went for a walk down the main street of this area – Jalan Marlboro (named after the Duke of Marlborough, but we don’t know why so you’ll have to look this up if you care). It was hot and the batik sales people were out in force ...

... m sure were horrified at the sight of her ghostly pale skin. They also happened to be at one of the big bars in town on the same night as Hanan and I met up with the brother-in-law of one of our former co-workers. The brother-in-law, Win, worked at the bar/guesthouse/tour organizer as a scuba guide and spoke to the DJ about helping us celebrate my 25th birthday (a few days early, but so what). As I think I mentioned before, one of the members of the English herd was turning 19 and ...

... a certain film I like... anyway I was walking round this monastery and was stunned to find that even right next to and I mean RIGHT next to a fairly busy road, the site was near silent. It was so peaceful, calming and made me feel amazing. Were it not for the sleeping sitting up lark I think it would be amazing to live there.
I returned to Yogya at around midday and spent the rest of the day doing nothing and feeling very relaxed. I left the following afternoon.

... The "wow" factor has long since left us, but we knew that we were likely to be visiting an impressive site that will be just another day to us. Camilla and I spent the final morning walking in Yogya's centre. We went to the palace, and had a guided tour around the small part that was open to the public, before taking a becak (like a cyclo) to a batik (tie-dye) museum. The paintings here were very impressive, and I would have loved to ...

... like when you call a call center which directs you to india to talk about an american product in china, Everyones clueless and just an employee. So i keep demanding they call the hotel and the hotel has no clue of anything and we go on in circles, i kept telling Everyone we either see a sunrise or we get our money back 1 of the 2 and Asians NEVER give money back... until finally we just agreed they'd give us a guild to make sure we didn't fall off the mountain and ...

... time. 4:35. I pointed at the clock. She laughed. "Employees always late. Jam karet (rubber time). Owner sets clock ahead so we get here on time." So this morning I found three clocks and photographed them all at the same time (which was 5:45 AM). The moral of this clock story is simple-- Agung Losmen is a lot like Indiana. When you're there, you never really know what time it is. The room itself had some hygiene issues--they ...

... aller voir le palais d'eau construit en 17.... quelque chose. Le sultan avait 35 femmes et 150 enfants alors cela prenait au moin 2-3 bassins, chacun separe. Un pour les enfants, un pour les femmes et un pour lui. Puis le marche aux oiseaux a ete notre visite suivante. Beaucoup, beaucoup d'oiseaux en cage. Des poussins de toute les couleurs, (bien oui des punk, Ils sont teints, bleus,vert ...

... Mal könnte ich damit eigentlich ******** Bingo spielen. Von dem Gegenstand der Konversation habe ich nicht wirklich viel mitbekommen und übersetzt wurde nur ganz selten für mich - naja, das gehört halt dazu. Trotzdem war es ziemlich nett. Mittwoch war ziemlich heftig, da haben wir Opfer von dem großen Erdbeben vor ein paar Jahren besucht. Das geht einem dann doch bissl an die ...