Holiday in Jogja

Yep.. Its holiday. Time to release stress and all burdensome. Time to go out from Bandung :)

So, me and my friends on the first of July took a train to Jogjakarta :) Actually this is the third time I come to this city, in 2010, about 2 months ago and here I am again visiting this city again. I dont know why I do like this city that much. Maybe because I always find something new in there.

Anyway, we were supposed to go at 5.20 am that day but our train had some problem and made our schedule was delayed. So our train was finally off at 8.30. It was annoying of course but we'd prefer to delay our schedule rather than having any problems in the middle of our way.

It took about 8 hours to arrive and we were so tired but excited :)

Finally on 5.00 pm we arrived and directly went to our housing. We put our stuff there and went near our housing to search for our dinner. We lived near Malioboro street and looked much quieter than last 2 months I've been there. Maybe because it was on vasting month for Moslem so people prefer to spend their holiday at the end this month after vasting will end.

After we ate we back to our housing and got some rest to start our journey next morning.

And so, in the morning we woke up early. We had some plans to visit some spots which are the main destination in Jogja such as Keraton Jogjakarta (royal of Jogjakarta), Taman Sari (Water Castle), Benteng Vredeburg (fort) and Pasar Beringharjo (tradional market) and Taman Pintar (place for science which is so fun especially for kids) .

I have visited all of these places before and I can see the difference especially when we came to Benteng Vredeburg. That place was much comfortable, cleaner and techno.

found this old typing machine which produced 'Sinar Matahari' newspaper long time ago

each figures represent history

What I like also in this city that there is no public transportation except Transjogja (bus), delman (a carriage and horse) and pedicab. Because we want to explore the city, we chose to go by foot that day. And after our journey has finally ended that day we were so exhausted. Before we slept we pasted patch or rubbing c**nterpain gel on our legs. Our room also smell with cajuput oil because the air was windy.

Next morning we went to temple. Maybe because we were too exhausted we only visited Borobudur Temple at the time. Because I've also visited this temple twice I didnt go inside the temple. Me and two of my friends who also visited the temple before chose to sit outside the temple and some of my friends who hasnt seen the temple yet went to explore. While were waiting of our friends we sit under the tree and enjoying our time to see people around. Most of them were tourists. It was great to see how they spoke with different language and act.

After visiting that temple we were back to our housing. One of our friends didnt feel unwell so she decided to sleep. While the others also chose to stay in their room to take a rest. Actually I didnt really exhausted that day and decided to go outside with one of my friend. We planned to go to Beringharjo but later on we decided to watch movie in XXI cinema. Haha.. yes this is ridiculous. We can watch movie in Bandung so why did we go there just to watch movie? Well.. with the reason want to try XII cinema in Jogja we went by Transjogja. We heard that cinema is the special building to watch movie unlike in Bandung that we enter mall or plaza to go to XXI.

So we reached the cinema and saw an announcement in front of the building 'Transformers ticket movie has been sold'. Fiuhh thank God I already watched that movie before. I even watched in 3D :). I saw every theater in that building there is no 3D theater yet and saw a long line to book ticket for that movie. Ckkckk.. And so we decided to watch horror movie 'Deliver Us From Evil" :p

And then we went to our housing and get some rest to prepare ourselves for our next journey.

And then we go to Gunung Kidul. And found beautiful beach. So breathtaking :)

Welcome to Watulawang Beach :)

ahh..this is what I call holiday..sand, sea, sun and sky..

btw we purposefully looked for a quiet beach and voila it seemed we own this beach :p

And then we went to next destination. Ratu Boko temple. Actually we had no plan to go to this temple but our guide suggested and I was so happy :) This temple looked so nice and warm. Best time to visit is sunset. Yep.. I knew now why sunset looked so beautiful in there :)

We really excited that day. Cant believe that day would be the last day because we have to go back to Bandung next morning. So we wont spent our night in vain. We went to alun-alun Keraton (wide park near the royal of Jogjakarta). There were so many beautiful bycycle there.

And so we ended our journey then and went to our housing again to take a rest. We catch our train in the next morning at 8.30 am. Bye for now Jogja..Matur nuwun..thank you for the wonderful journey :)