Peti Mas Hotel Yogyakarta

... light. So much so that we ended up buying two pieces, Kate got an abstract and colourful piece, and I got a nice black and white number of a Budda image sitting in front of a sunset. We haggled and got them down to 200,000 rps (£13) for them both, which we didn&#8217;t mind paying as he had shown us a fixed price list before which helped us identify paintings we could afford.<br><br>We took the opportunity of having a driver for the day to go to the train station and book ...

... round like a spastic. Essentially there's one fairly sizeable street running east to west, and the hostel is off a side road leading north from it. The driver simply couldn't find it, but was giving me no indication as to the status of his quest. I first knew something was amiss when after ten minutes he stopped by the side of the road and asked some random people directions. They didn't know the hostel, so he asked me the number, despite the fact I'd already seen him ...

... a bad headache from the previous day and, unsurprisingly, it was not long before his head was pounding again. We left after two rather unmelodic renditions and headed instead to the nearby bird market with its hundreds of ornamental cages full of a wide variety of birds. What we weren't expecting to see, however, were the numerous tiny cages housing puppies, kittens, rabbits, monkeys, lizards, hedgehogs, pythons and various other creatures. Dean decided to ...

... want to take pictures with, including Latinos, Black people, and I&#8217;m sure if indigenous peoples from other lands had the means to visit these countries, the locals would want to take pictures with them too. They want to take pictures with you because you are foreign and you look different. Then, they can develop the picture and pass it around to their friends, saying: &#8220;Look, I saw Angelina Jolie at Chairman Mao&#8217;s mausoleum in Ho Chi Minh City.&#8221; For the most ...

... me (and my Harry Potter likeness) so as we walked past another school tour, I pointed at Andy and shouted 'sangat tinggi' (which translates as 'very tall') to make them all look at him. Very funny. More internet followed, then our evening meal and more time spent in the mall arcade. Andy became addicted to the basketball game but even the little fat kid playing was better than him.]<br><br>[Andy: Only Tom actually heard the 'humongous comment...so if it sounds made-up ...

... Yogyakarta - the cultural center of Java. I had been looking forward to this part since we decided to go to Indonesia. On one side of the city is a Buddhist temple and on the other is a Hindu temple - both from the 9th century! I really like my ruins. We decided to explore Prambanan first - it's the Hindu temple. With the help of our Lonely Planet guidebook and the locals, we managed to avoid paying for a ...

... school tour so I had seen enough of the temples then to wander around with the kids answering their questions. Every so ...

... three circular tiered platforms with 72 stupas all around and one massive stupa at the top. It doesn't appear to be 40m high to the naked eye because of the girth of the temple. It is a pyramid that is both steep and covers a lot of surface area on the ground. Once I got inside the temple and walked around (with respect for the Buddhist tradition, a visitor is instructed to walk around each level in a specific ...

... rlich an die Entfernung vom Flughafen und war beruhigt, als sich der Taxifahrer damit zufrieden gegeben hat, als er nach den Kilometern fragte. Als ich mit der Volontärin hier in die Stadt gefahren bin am Montag zum Essen haben wir ein Taxi im Zentrum genommen und sie meinte wieder 13.5 Kilometer auf die Frage des Taxifahrers. Erklärung: Die haben hier keine Hausnummern und die Straße ist ziemlich lang, also machen sie stattdessen Kilometerangaben.... Strange new world!

... Santa!" :-) From the palace we checked out Via Via Cafe and booked what looks like extremely interesting tours for the next couple of days. Tomorrow we do a Religion tour where we explore (on motorcycle! :-)) the Muslim, Christian, Budhist, and Hindu faiths - apparently there is a lot of "discussion" involved on this tour... Should be great - as long as I stay on the motorcycle! And yes, we did break down and take a couple of becaks today (easier than ...