Our night at the airport was relaxed until we decided to start sleeping. At the same time also these work men decided to start working. Quiet airport and some heavy drilling. Loud drilling. We changed our place from these benches were we could lay down to this first class lounge with big leather chairs with a charging point right between our chairs. (Every traveller knows what a jackpot that is :D) We woke up at 4 am to go freshen ourselves up a bit in the toilets. We actually slept really well! We dropped our bags and went to eat breakfast (egg, meet, potatoes).
The flight took 2h 45 minutes and we were mostly sleeping to whole flight. We arrived in Jogja(Yogyakarta) at 8.45am. The airport was tiny and soon we were out waiting a bus next to the airport. The bus expeariment was a bit different.. You paid your ticket and went into this glass box which was build of the ground and raised higher. The bus had a driver and this other guy to open the door and shout out the stop names. The bus just stopped in front of the stops and you quickly needed to jump in. There was also a guy working at every bus stop. If no one was coming into the bus the guy at the stop signed 0 to the driver which drove past the stop. The door in the bus was in the middle of it and just slided open.
Our first impression of Jogja was busy. Under developed and so much poorer than Malaysia. It was actually a bit of a shock to us.
We had decided to go to this Prowirotaman street cause there were more options with hotels with swimming pool which we were in desperate need of! First one we tried was a match! 175 000 / night (rupiah! That was a bit more than 50 malaysian ringgits). We went to eat at this Bamboo cafe which ended up being our favorite place and we even found it in our guide book.
Then it was time for pool what we had waited for 4 weeks! It was actually really good only proper sunbeds were missing and maybe some music. At night (after some rugby game..) we tried to walk to Kraton but we never found an entrance there. It's a sultan's palace within these walls forming a square around it.
Eventually we had to take this trishaw to the place from where we walked to this Marlioboro street with a night market. The whole place was so different to the places we had been in! This was massively under developed. People sitting and eating with hands everywhere on the ground! Street food stalls got a totally different meaning here. At the night market it was so so SO busy, loud and crowded. People staring at us and coming to talk to us.
We searched for a place to eat and eventually found one. Locals had talked about this art show thing which was a must see so we went to search the place. Really nice art work made with / By melting wax into old fashioned pen thing.. They coloursed the wax to make different colours.. After a while we left from the art gallery towards home with this local trishaw..
Since we had been travelling the previous day we wanted to have a gap day and didn't wanna leave straight to some trip.. So the next Morning we went back to Kraton and the Sultan's palace paying 26 000 (entrace and camera fees). The palace was a total waste of time. Nothing special really. So boring, one little room of nothing. Next we walked to the Taman Sari, the water castle, but didn't wanna pay in cause we were afraid that it's gonna be a disappointment too. Then we just hang out and went to this Banana cafe to read, write and drink beer. Went to eat at this different place and it ended up being shit.. :D Then earlyish to bed for the next day's trip.
The flight took 2h 45 minutes and we were mostly sleeping to whole flight. We arrived in Jogja(Yogyakarta) at 8.45am. The airport was tiny and soon we were out waiting a bus next to the airport. The bus expeariment was a bit different.. You paid your ticket and went into this glass box which was build of the ground and raised higher. The bus had a driver and this other guy to open the door and shout out the stop names. The bus just stopped in front of the stops and you quickly needed to jump in. There was also a guy working at every bus stop. If no one was coming into the bus the guy at the stop signed 0 to the driver which drove past the stop. The door in the bus was in the middle of it and just slided open.
Our first impression of Jogja was busy. Under developed and so much poorer than Malaysia. It was actually a bit of a shock to us.
We had decided to go to this Prowirotaman street cause there were more options with hotels with swimming pool which we were in desperate need of! First one we tried was a match! 175 000 / night (rupiah! That was a bit more than 50 malaysian ringgits). We went to eat at this Bamboo cafe which ended up being our favorite place and we even found it in our guide book.
Then it was time for pool what we had waited for 4 weeks! It was actually really good only proper sunbeds were missing and maybe some music. At night (after some rugby game..) we tried to walk to Kraton but we never found an entrance there. It's a sultan's palace within these walls forming a square around it.
Eventually we had to take this trishaw to the place from where we walked to this Marlioboro street with a night market. The whole place was so different to the places we had been in! This was massively under developed. People sitting and eating with hands everywhere on the ground! Street food stalls got a totally different meaning here. At the night market it was so so SO busy, loud and crowded. People staring at us and coming to talk to us.
We searched for a place to eat and eventually found one. Locals had talked about this art show thing which was a must see so we went to search the place. Really nice art work made with / By melting wax into old fashioned pen thing.. They coloursed the wax to make different colours.. After a while we left from the art gallery towards home with this local trishaw..
Since we had been travelling the previous day we wanted to have a gap day and didn't wanna leave straight to some trip.. So the next Morning we went back to Kraton and the Sultan's palace paying 26 000 (entrace and camera fees). The palace was a total waste of time. Nothing special really. So boring, one little room of nothing. Next we walked to the Taman Sari, the water castle, but didn't wanna pay in cause we were afraid that it's gonna be a disappointment too. Then we just hang out and went to this Banana cafe to read, write and drink beer. Went to eat at this different place and it ended up being shit.. :D Then earlyish to bed for the next day's trip.
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