SURAYA SAJOLI: Jogjakarta Trip 2

Day 2, 20/12/2009
Today abah rented a car along with a driver named Yoniva to bring us go sight-seeing around Jogja.
I woke up at 6.30 am and gosh, the sun was already shining bright!

I went to take my shower first before I sent a good morning sms to Syazwan :)

He joined us for breakfast. Our first breakfast together :) Hahahaha. The hotel buffet wasn’t bad. Normally they served either Nasi Goreng or Bakmie Goreng and of course other usual hotel food was served as well.
We started our journey at 8 am and our first destination was Borobudur.Well, if you still remember history (which I don’t and had to google to find info), Borobudur is an ancient Mahayana Buddhist monument.

It comprises of 6 square platforms and the last three platforms represent 3 levels of Buddhist cosmology, namely, Kamadhatu (the world of desire), Rupadhatu (the world of forms) and Arupadhatu (the world of formlessness).

It is quite high and has a lot of stairs, you know, like Batu Caves.

And at each level, they have sort of like perforated bells? (I think) and inside each one of it, has a headless statue as though meditating. Kind of creepy…

Soon, after finishing our visit at Borobudur, we went to Gunung Merapi. This is where volcano eruptions usually occur and the last eruption happened was in 2006!

The weather there was quite nice. Chilly and breezy. Simple huts at the lower edge of the hill, selling local products like dried flowers, souvenirs and coffee. And yes, they sell kopi luak too which I heard, is the finest coffee beans in the world. The coffee beans are extracted from feces of this some kind of animal. And yes, my dad bought it.

After Gunung Merapi, we had our lunch at Nasi Padang Sederhana. The food was awesome. Then, we went to Kraton. Kraton is a place where all the royals live.

We took a ride on rickshaw to go-see. I had my ride with Syazwan. It was hilarious.
All I can say is, it was totally once in a lifetime experience. Right Syazwan? Lol :P

First, we headed to the horse carriage museum. There’s one thing I noticed about the people here. They seem to have this horse carriage madness going on.

Well, the royals here since I don’t know what century, they liked horse carriage. It’s like something symbolic for them.

At the museum, there were a lot of horse carriages owned by all the Kings since King I until the tenth king which is the current king.If you want to know which horse carriage belonged to which king, you just have to look at the number of wings on the door.

All of the horse cars over there are not just for kings to go sight-seeing, they also have their own funeral horse carriage with an 18-carat gold crown on it. Whoaa..

Besides that, they have horse carriage for princesses, princes, dancers and blablabla. Basically, they just like horse carriage so much.

After the horse carriage museum, we went for a little shopping spree. I bought a batik silk to go along with my Uluwatu kebaya. And it’s very cheap, only around Rm70+!! In Malaysia, you can only get that for Rm159!
Then, we headed back to the hotel but this time around, Syazwan stayed at the hotel too. He shared his room with my brother, Danial. Lol.

Well, that sums up everything on the 2nd day in Jogja and here are more pictures to look at! :)