Santika Yogyakarta
Jalan Jend Sudirman No 19 Yogyakarta, Java, 55233, Indonesia
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Jogja
... a sort of workshop that had paintings everywhere and he showed us a price list, suprise suprise. The type of painting is called batik and he showed us one being worked on, it's basically painting on fabric. He insisted we wander around, in honesty if we were on holiday I would perhaps have bought a cheap one as some of them are quite impressive but no way I'm lugging it around for another 4 months. He proper pushed us before we eventually just left.
From here we ...
More Temples
Now if it wasn't for Borobudur being such a huge site on it's own, another World Heritage site, Prambanan would be widely known, but then again, before I visited Borobudur, how many of you knew of it? To be honest, I knew about Borobudur but I had no idea about this other site, so I did some quick reading, and with our driver from yesterday all primed up and ready to go, we hit these other temples.
Candi Sari
A tiny temple, full of school kids and one ...
Yogyakarta, Borobudur and Prambanan
... which is the main/cheapest place to stay. To be honest it's pretty much one street with hotels and restaurants on, the backpackery bit anyway. So I had a walk to find a hotel from the book and found the owner of it by chance and he showed me to the hotel but the prices were about 175000R when I wanted to pay about 80000R so he showed me to his other hotel then his cheaper hotel once he had finally told me what the prices were. So the room looked good and was cheap so I ...
Prambanan
... in at a cheaper rate while Anna and I paid US13 each. Even the entrances for foreigners were different. There was a lounge for us with coffee and tea provided but it was badly made and Anna gave it up after one sip.
The temple itself was awesome. Located about 18 km. east of Yogya, Prambanan was a Hindu temple complex built in the ninth century, then abandoned probably either because of volcanic eruptions or power struggles. The ...
Joking.. hee hee hee
... guy! I wanted to take him with me everywhere! he made everything fun!
Our luck held out with the weather and it didn't start raining till after we got back on the bus!
When we got back to the harmony inn I decided to make full use of the pool even though it was raining :) it was awesome swimming in the rain and I had fun chatting to Angus and Andrew and angela whilst floating in the rain! I have to admit I did do the andy dufrain escape scene of ...



