Just humour me. There were no bears in sight but the town was called Yogyakarta!
We went to some fairly amazing temples including the biggest Hindu temple in the world and even went to one with a tree outside that was much more interesting than the temple itself. It has roots hanging down from from the branches. Yes you read correctly. An upside down tree. But that wasn't the good bit. The good bit was you could swing from them which, as you can imagine, consisted of a lot of Tarzan impressions.
At one of the temples, Bodobadur, there were 2 school groups patrolling with the sole intention to practice their English and get some photographic evidence! Basically meaning there were literally hundreds of 12 year olds saying "mister, mister! Photo?" It did get a bit tedious after a while...
Another temple actually looked a little like Angkor wat but this time was called Prambenan. As we got there, we thought it looks like a much better condition version of its Cambodian counterpart, until we realised that a lot of it was destroyed in an earthquake and was rebuilt a few years ago!
This area in Indonesia is actually an ecologist geeks idea of paradise so to experience a bit of it, we decided to rent mopeds and drive them up the side of an active volcano, along an off road track. It sounded like a better idea at the time! So, along with 5 others, we set off with the directions "head north until you see a massive volcano". Easy!
The only real problem was that there was a large storm coming in and through the torrential rain, we couldn't see a massive volcano..! That didn't overly deter us as we had our trusty ponchos and some misplaced confidence! We managed to get a bit lost and, although partially recovering, we still found ourselves on the side of a volcano trying to traverse very much off road, wet and slippery conditions. Still we kept going until Sean fell off so we went for a little walk up instead. Because of the low cloud, we could still see very little of the volcano but because of fading light, we had to call it a day.
Still very exciting, but no lava to be seen. Not even the crater! Slightly disappointing.
We even had the chance to watch some traditional ballet! Not quite what I was expecting but it was very nice. Massive anticlimax though as one of the leads had to cut off his genitalia in an act of love but he only waved a knife above his head. Still, they would go through a lot of actors otherwise wouldn't they?
We went to some fairly amazing temples including the biggest Hindu temple in the world and even went to one with a tree outside that was much more interesting than the temple itself. It has roots hanging down from from the branches. Yes you read correctly. An upside down tree. But that wasn't the good bit. The good bit was you could swing from them which, as you can imagine, consisted of a lot of Tarzan impressions.
At one of the temples, Bodobadur, there were 2 school groups patrolling with the sole intention to practice their English and get some photographic evidence! Basically meaning there were literally hundreds of 12 year olds saying "mister, mister! Photo?" It did get a bit tedious after a while...
Another temple actually looked a little like Angkor wat but this time was called Prambenan. As we got there, we thought it looks like a much better condition version of its Cambodian counterpart, until we realised that a lot of it was destroyed in an earthquake and was rebuilt a few years ago!
This area in Indonesia is actually an ecologist geeks idea of paradise so to experience a bit of it, we decided to rent mopeds and drive them up the side of an active volcano, along an off road track. It sounded like a better idea at the time! So, along with 5 others, we set off with the directions "head north until you see a massive volcano". Easy!
The only real problem was that there was a large storm coming in and through the torrential rain, we couldn't see a massive volcano..! That didn't overly deter us as we had our trusty ponchos and some misplaced confidence! We managed to get a bit lost and, although partially recovering, we still found ourselves on the side of a volcano trying to traverse very much off road, wet and slippery conditions. Still we kept going until Sean fell off so we went for a little walk up instead. Because of the low cloud, we could still see very little of the volcano but because of fading light, we had to call it a day.
Still very exciting, but no lava to be seen. Not even the crater! Slightly disappointing.
We even had the chance to watch some traditional ballet! Not quite what I was expecting but it was very nice. Massive anticlimax though as one of the leads had to cut off his genitalia in an act of love but he only waved a knife above his head. Still, they would go through a lot of actors otherwise wouldn't they?
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