Borobodur

... Pangandaran on the south coast of Java (a tsunami killed 600 people there in July and destroyed many houses) - visiting Borobodur, the world's largest Buddhist monument - seeing dawn break over Bromo Volcano and then climbing up to the crater rim, where ...

... , it's Ramadan right now, and we virtually had the temple to ourselves! Haa haa...and it was incredible! The Buddhist temple of Borobodur was built approximately 1,200 years ago, was discovered in 1818, and is built in the shape of a stupa. It ...

When I arrived in Yagyakarta I was keen to check into somewhere nice after the awful guest house I stayed in the Surabaya. I found a really nice hotel for Rp 60,000 (4 pounds) a night. The main reason for coming to Yagyakarta (pronounced Jogjakarta or ...

... What is most important here is the fact that for this period of time, I was a celebrity. For the Indonesians visiting the site, Borobodur was not the tourist attraction – I was. Over the course of two hours, I posed for photos with at least 40 ...

... , with fresh coconut cream. Enak! At 0715 hrs caught a becak to catch a bus to Mutilan, then on to the famed Borobodur, which had recently opened after being destroyed by an earthquake. It was a beauty difficult to behold because there was no vantage ...