Towards a better Me~

 

I have positive energy filled up my mind now!

I wish the energy is here for me forever... lols

Okay~ I always want to be a better me...

So I set some goals for myself in this coming October...

1. To keep fit, work out frequently to cut the fat in my tummy.

2. To read more, read can improve me.

3. To learn cooking, as I want to cut down eating processed food

4. To eat more fruits, fruits detox our body system

 

I want to see a better me in Nov, I can do it!

Well, it's raining cats and dogs out there now, I am going to zzz.

Good night~

 

 

Candi Prambanan

Another not to miss temples to visit at Jogjakarta, Candi Prambanan

We nearly miss this as of some little incident happened...

Yet, we did make the visit to the temples before leaving Jogjakarta.

It was a good one!

 

Candi Prambanan was titled as the world heritage site too

The temples history is made up of the combination of Hinduism Empire and Buddhism Empire

How they have fought for their empire, and how they have combined the power of both empires

To sustain for the most powerful empire at that time.

 

Entrance to the temple: 125,000 rupiah per person

Temples will be closed by 5pm everyday,

there's Ramayana Dance performance in the park at the evening, costing 250,000 rupiah per person

we didn't manage to watch the performance, due to our time arranged was out of schedule

and we didn't feel like watching it after viewing some comments from TripAdvisor.

We know the temples history quite well, as we hired a great tour guide, Mr. Subarto

He did much study and research on this temple and the Candi Borobudur too 

 

There are many temples here, which some were collapsed due to earthquake

Now, they are still in the progress of re-building some of the temples.

So we could see the fallen stones lying on the ground, waiting to be re-built.

The main three of them are Brahma Temple in the north, Vishnu Temple in the south, and the biggest among the three which lies between Brahma and Vishnu temples is Shiva Temple

 

A closed up on the collapsed temples.

It shall be taking a long time to re-build, as it's not easy as just build but to join up the stones based on the crafts made to the stones, it's like making up the jig-saw puzzle.

Another place we can see the great ancient masterpieces of Hinduism and Buddhism architecture

All stones were crafted and stacking up to form the temple 

 

It was a hot sunny day when we were here.

So coincidence, there are school activities conducted at the park near the temples

So there were many school kids found visiting the temples too.

 

School kids with happy faces.

This is the most happy times of every kid

I knew it as I came across the times like this too!

 

The kids were so happy while taking picture with me!

I have no idea what made them so excited.

May be it's purely the happiness they have at their age!

Kids are adorable! I am happy too!



Candi Borobudur

 Candi Borobudur. A world heritage at central of Jawa.

A temple of Buddhism.

 

Despite of the lamp cum speaker pole, I love this picture much.

Love the combination of color that made up this picture,

The cloud at the sky, the tree, the layer of hills and the stupa.

 

Awaiting for the moment of sun rise, the moment of feeling awesome.

The sun was slowly crawling up... what a good morning to all~

Orange sky, great mountain with the misty landscape, plus stupa of the temple formed a good picture.

 

I have witnessed the great sun rise at Candi Borobudur. Fantastic!

 There were tourists clapping their hands applauding this wonderful moment.

 Amitabha Buddha.
The Buddha statue is inside each of the stupa in this temple. Unfortunately, some of the Buddha head of the statue was being stolen away which formed a head-less Buddha in the stupa.

 

The Amitabha Buddha in the stupa

 

 Nice stone craft surrounding the temple. It told the story of the temple.

 

The temple shows the great workmanship of building and construction of old times.

Amazing works that could not be found in nowadays.

It was found that Buddhism existed at the land of Indonesia before the Muslim.

The temple was built by stone, stacking up one by one, and joining up without a piece a nail.

 

Amitabha Buddha. This is truly a holy ground of Buddhism.

 

Candi Borodudur. Awesome World Heritage Site worth your visit here.

Entrance fee as follow:

Sunrise Package - 380,000 rupiah (starts from 0430 -1700), enter from Manohara Hotel

Normal Package - 190,000 rupiah (starts from 0600 - 1700), enter from Borobudur Park

 

 



Saraswati Borobudur

We have a wonderful trip to Jogjakarta mainly for photography at the world heritage sites,

the Candi Borobudur and the Candi Prambanan.

Landed at the Jogjakarta Adisucipto International Airport,

which is named after the hero of their national air force team.

We hired a taxi to send us to Borobudur, which took 1.5 hours for us to reach there.

It cost us 250,000 rupiah for the transfer from airport to hotel with a pit stop of  having lunch at the local famous restaurant for the famous ayam goring (fried chicken) and gudeg (boiled jackfruit with egg and cow skin)... which we found both dishes tasted moderate to us only.

 

Saraswati Borobudur, where we have stayed in for 3 nights here.

 

Quiet atmosphere in this boutique hotel

 

Luxurious classical interior of the hotel  

Statue found in the hotel, believe it would be the god of Saraswati

 

Swimming pool in the hotel, water of the pool is chilling cold. 

 

The corridor with a strong of colonial style

 

2013 ~ Year of visiting Jawa Tengah

Borobudur is located at Jawa Tengah, a small town that is not really fully developed

Tourists here mostly will be staying in the hotel, as there's nothing great and attractive in the town except for the world heritage temple, Candi Borobudur

Foods commonly found at the warung (food stall) are the Mie Ayam (chicken noodle) and Bakso (meat ball noodle). Hardly found the restaurant with tradition Jawanese dishes on the street, so we mostly dined in the hotel.

 

We hired an andong (horse buggy ride) to visit places  in this small town,

and we named the macho horse of our andong Pak Jonni (Johnny)

Andong is one of the main transportation in this small town.

My first ride of andong was interesting... while we stepped on the buggy, I was worrying that the horse won't cope with our weight and would have the buggy upside down while the horse would be whining... I was wrong, think I watched too much of cartoon! lols...

Beautiful kampong (village) scenery in this small town. 

 

I would describe this small town, a quiet and peaceful town.

It worth a visit for us to break away from the busy city life, and enjoy the quietness here.