Inna Ambarrukmo Palace Yogyakarta

... I retorted. Idiot.<br><br>After this me, Devon and Crystal sat around together, while luckily Asan ****ed off to bed. Around 11pm Robert took me and Devon to the Tugu monument a short distance down the road. This was built when the Sultan who founded Yogya first arrived in the city, and it is said that if you touch the monument you'll fall in love with the city and want to come back. When we got there there were already a few groups of teenagers there ...

Four of us shared a taxi from the airport (prepaid taxi coupon &#8211; so no need to haggle. In Indonesia things are different from Malaysia and haggling is the norm for just about everything!) <br><br>We&#8217;d booked ahead as we weren&#8217;t sure how busy Yogya would be. We were tired and it was a bit of a downer to find that the &#8220;mid range&#8221; hotel with a pool actually was even more tired than we were. Cold shower ...

... ll miss you!<br><br>[Tom: As a postscript, I have to include a couple of Andy Starling quotes from Yogya for sheer amusement: <br>i) 'If you want to know how big my penis is, ask my, er, your mum...'<br>ii) 'Leave my tiny penis and my mum's hands out of this'.<br><br>Don't ask. The man is a true goon.]<br><br>[Andy: Hahahaha I can't deny that I said that! But if you're including that, then I'm mentioning the little girl who said. And I quote. 'You could be famous in Indonesia' :)]<br>

... racing as to what it entailed. It is called Ratus and we asked to speak to the manager who had told us about it the day before. I will just say it was a interesting conversation and she offer to show us so if your interested in what it is email me and I will tell you. After another nap we hired a trishaw, Traditional three-wheeled and pedal-powered cart, known as becak and headed to our sliver smith class. We ran to a shop to have bakso once we got there because we hadn't ...

... that what is a tourist attraction of great natural beauty for us is also a sulfur mine for the local population. These poor guys begin their climb up to the summit (and the sulfur) long before sunrise. They must be used to the 3km hike by now but talk about a ****** commute to your job. Once they reach their destination they fill two baskets with chunks of sulfur that have oozed out of the cracks in the earth and have hardened into yellow rocks that are ...

... country city architecture of non-uniform concrete blocks all over the place that are storefronts, restaurants and apartment buildings. There were political banners lining the streets in anticipation of the national elections. Walking the gangs, you see clothes drying from people's balconies, street vendor stands, kids playing football and loads of Javanese sitting on their front porch, smoking their clove ...

... Gott, dieses Gefährt ist ca. aus dem letzten Jahrhund**t - und zwar bevor Autos **funden wurden und üb**lebt keine 5m. Nach ein** knappen halben Stunde Fahrt war d** Bus g**ammelt voll. Von oben hat es bissl reing**egnet - die Däch** sind hi** halt alle nicht so wirklich dicht.... Und bei den Tempeln haben sie mich dann rausgelassen. Mit mir ist dies** Wand**predig** ausgestiegen. Meine Güte, d** war irgendwo eine halbe Stunde vorh** eingestiegen und hat aus d** Bibel ...

... the wind against my face looking around at the new world around me. We stopped at each place of worship for about an hour and over the course of the morning, we became more comfortable with each other. I feel incredibly fortunate to have had two liberal, open minded guides who were not at all afraid to speak their minds about the taboo topic of religion. The guy (so wish I would have had them write their names down) was a devote Hindu who loved to joke ...

... if it was an antibiotic or more of the gut-paralysing drugs that I have already tried. I jumped across to the internet cafe to search for the answer - unfortunately, the only references I could find were in Bahasa (the language of Indo) and were no help. Desperate for help, I trusted the pharmacist and started taking the medication last night. We'll see! <br><br>Although Yogyakarta (pronounced jogjakarta) is a fine city, the real reason for the ...