Yogyakarta - Borobodur

Something is wrong when the sunrise trip starts at 500am in the morning, which haven't include about an hour drive to the destination. So, a word of caution here. No sunrise can be seen in Borobodur unless you stay in the hotel inside the Borobodur itself. The centre only open at 6am so only those staying inside get to see the sunrise. So much for exclusivity huh?

And when the morning comes, it's very cloudy hence the pictures were all gloomy and grey. Of course my mediocre photo taking skills didn't help much too.

It will be nicer with less cloud and bright sunshine and the blue sky, which unfortunately didn't happen that day. Sigh~

Stupa with the gloomy sky at the back. It's morning mind you!!!

This is the stupa with the Buddha statue which everyone try to touch the palm in order to get some good luck. But the guide gave a sniff out of it by saying that it's not fair since foreigners will get all the good luck since they have longer hand to reach the Buddha's hand inside the stupa. The guide scores full mark with his frankness. Haha....

Then at the top of the Borobodur temple, there were a group of youngsters in 18-22 years old range looking for foreigner to chat with...in English. They were a group of students of an English community college on field trip and their trips were organized in such a way to encourage them to talk and practise their English with tourists. I think that's a good way for them to practise.

They were young and eager to practise their newly-acquired language. And I think they had an assignment of such as well.

Of course, there were so many local kids around, maybe it's the school holiday, my guess. Smile!!!


Nice place but I wish the sky is brighter and bluer haha... In terms of the temple itself, it's very impressive and once you know the story behind the restoration and how the recent earth quake destroyed some part of it, it made it appeals more to me. Physical-structure wise, I think it's not as interesting as Angkor Wat but I guess it's not fair to compare in such a way since Angkor Wat consists of a few temples with different style and kingdom.