Ibis Malioboro

Yogya. Malioboro. Nasi gudeg for dinner. Strolling along the famous old Malioboro. Street vendors selling locally designed t-shirts and traditional batik shorts and shirts and tops and sandals and thongs and bags for Indonesian Rupiah 25000 (AUD $3) ...

... we were able to somehow flag down a taxi (pretty much non existant on that motorway!) to take us to the safety of Malioboro (street of our hotel and tourist hub).  An adventure anyhoo. Trev's not feeling the best today so I've been walking about ...

... in all her hostessy excellence took us for a walk around Yogya's town center, through its most popular street called Jalan Malioboro. Hundreds of meters of t-shirts and other assorted tourist crap of course, but also blind beggars, shouting becak drivers, ...

Who are you?  That was the recurring theme of our "Religion" tour today.  We had booked a four hour religion tour via motorbike  Our tour guides were two fantastic young (I guess anyhow...) Indonesians - the guy Hindu and the girl formerly ...

Here I am again in yet another "sketchy" internet cafe attempting to update you all with our latest and greatest adventures... here's hoping the autosave function actually works this time!!  Grab a snack (or two) this may be a very long and wordy ...