Sri Wibowo Hotel Yogyakarta

... body language. What a cock.

Back on the road and we headed to Prambanan. This is a site consisting of a huge, tall and pointed Hindu temple (apparently one of the largest in South-East Asia), surrounded by several other temples, all built in a formation. Unfortunately, a recent earthquake had messed a few of them up, and they were covered in scaffolding... bad times. We had a wander round, though had foolishly opted for a guided tour, which was ...

... who drove us to a local place to eat Gudeg, local Jogja food. We then went to a street vendor and had a jogja burger, we sat on a mat int he road eating it and had one of the many buskers irritate us with a song, Rolly gave him some loose change so he would move on. After we said goodbye to Erna, as she had to meet a friend. In the evening Rolly and Carlos went to have an early night before I headed off soon after.

... the TV on. Especially if your masseuse has a case of the snorts like mine did!

We also found a Batik Art course which we wanted to sign up for but unfortunately the courses were all full. So, we are having to put that on the back-burner until we return to Indonesia at the end of our trip.

From here, we had another overnight train back to Jakarta to catch our Borneo flight.

... having toiled in aforementioned fields. A strange exception to the pale-craze has been in Japan, where we have been confronted with two extremes: on the one hand, pale women here are EXTREMELY pale, as in unhealthy-looking and see-through. One the other hand, though, we have seen some younger teenager-type girls wearing bronzers and blushes to give themselves a more swarthy appearance, and some younger girls clearly have been spending time outside in the sun playing sports or whatever, as ...

... in peace and enjoy the carvings without bumping into large groups of other tourists.

The final circular platforms have an open plan allowing you are great view across the local area, especially Mount Merapi which towers above the clouds. There are no carvings here, but hundreds of smaller stupas circling the central stupa at the head of the monument. The central stupa is empty and apparently represents nirvana, the smaller stupas surrounding it house ...

... 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 ...

... I got into the streets of the company town so people were milling about and socializing as they tend to do in very hot countries when the sun goes down. There was even a small mosque right there in the jungle. I just want to say right here that I am very very tired of being called to prayer 5 times a day. I mean seriously, can you not take the responsibility upon yourself to set your watch and get down with praying to your god? Do you really need some ...

... a vast difference as compared with the islands of Indonesia I had previously visited. Yogyakarta is a city of 3mm people. Java has a population of 150mm, making it the most populated island on the planet and the largest area with the highest population density on the planet. 3 out of 5 Indonesians live on this island and the majority of its residents are ethnically Javanese. The eastern part of the island, is covered ...

Heute morgen bin ich also gegen 6:30 aufgestanden und hab mich auf den Weg nach Solo gemacht zu ein** d** Organisationen mit denen wir hi** arbeiten. Bin mit 2 Bussen zum Bahnhof und hab dann dort **stmal ne 3/4h gewartet, weil ich natürlich wied** viel zu früh war. Im Zug hab ich dann eine Australi**in getroffen, die hi** studi**t und auch nach Solo gefahren ist - haben uns nur kurz unt**halten, war ab** ganz nett. Bin dann mit dem Taxi zu d** Organisation gefahren (da ...

... differences/significance of each place. As most of you know, world religion fascinates me and I always have so many questions. This was the perfect tour for me and Trev, well, he was pumped to cruise around on a motorbike :-) The bike ride out to our first stop, the temple, was phenomenal. Trev was on the back of the guy's super modern bike and I was on the back of the girl's (maybe) less modern bike. We all sported Super Dave helmets which made me ...