Rumah Mertua Yogyakarta
Jl. Palagan Tentara Pelajar, Tegalwaras, Sariharjo - Ngaglik, Sleman Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
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Jogya-memory
Dashing through Jakarta, a city not meant for tourism in any way, or seemingly for living, we took the 8-hour 'Exsekutif' train to Yogyakarta. The train journey was pretty fantastic. Not only was it well served, but it provided some simply amazing scenery. It seems that in these countries the traveling really is part of the experience. Looking out …
Temples and holy sites
A 10 hour bus journey led us to the cultural heart of Java, Yogyakarta; the city is also one of the most popular domestic tourist destinations. We checked into our wonderful boutique hotel in the north of the city and were over the moon that we found this little oasis.
The reason I has wanted to visit Java was so that I could see the …
Whipping up a cultural storm
Our time in Yogya keeps being extended...we've now been here for a week! As Yogya was the first big city we had visited - with no beaches to distract us - we tried to do a little site seeing. We visited the Sultan's palace, the Kraton, which is a walled enclosure in the centre of the city, where the sultan still lives with 2500 staff. We entered …
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More Temples
... even though this was small, we spent time shooting at the various parts of this complex
Prambanan
Finally we arrived at the mother ship of these Hindu temples. There were originally over 230 of these but now only a few larger ones had been rebuilt. We were allowed inside all but the largest, and the reason this was that a couple of years ago, there had been an earthquake and even though the temples had not fallen down, there were cracks in the blocks ...
Kuala Lumpur To Yogyakarta
... trip and Anna and I had that same exhilarating feeling of adventure. We arrived at the airport at half-past five and were surprised to see so many people at that time of the morning. The vast majority of them were here because they had chosen to travel by AirAsia, voted the world’s best budget airline three years running. Our driver told us that it had been like this every morning for quite some time now and joked that AirAsia should ...


