Hotels in Yogyakarta - Prices and Reviews

Arrival in the main city close to the temples. Lots of volcano pictures from the airplane.

Taking a day trip to see to Yogyakarta to do some sightseeing with Gray LineTours. The main reason was to see Borobudur Temple. But there are some other palaces and temples on the tour as well. I will create a separate travel blog for the vacation day to see it in better detail.

I came i saw i conquered, yogya was a mixture of reggae bars, batik galleries and liberal brilliance. The town itself could be loosely described as one of the more creative and open minded places that populate java. I spent about a week here just enjoying the scenery as people ambled on by, i took in a night time puppet show that was a bit of an...

Well, the British girls and Australian guy now have names: Danni, Helen, and Lewis. Although I lost them on my first night in Jogja, we reconnected through fortuitous circumstances and headed out to Borobudur together. The Borobudur temple complex was built in the 9th century as a Buddhist monument, and it was an amazing sight ... it's made out ...

This is the first day when I do not buy any 'luxuries' - no small chocolate bars or wafers to provide 2 minutes of happiness and tear a big chunk off my allowance. I feel a tiny bit proud of myself. I have two painful stories to tell today. The first I will endeavour to tell using some statistics. For the second, I have to rely on your good-natu...

A sizeable proportion of Indonesia's 225 million people live on less than $1 a day. 'Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals' is to be the theme of the annual VSO conference in March. To help participants focus on and learn about poverty, four participants - including me and the director of VSO Indonesia - have been asked to live on US$1 a ...

Going from big-city Jakarta to Yogyakarta was a slight culture shock. From people not caring about you being a tourist, everyone in Yogya wanted to be our friend. In fact, many of them claimed to have many Canadian friends, mostly in Montreal or Calgary. At first I fell for it, just like I fell for the story that there is an art festival that is...