The first few days in Java

Prambanan Temples

On our rickshaw

Some of the material we bought!

This is going to be a very short and sweet post this week until I manage to get a longer time on internet. All is  fine in Java and Lisa and I met up on Thursday night in Jakarta with me arriving in a very smart car with a driver- too long a story to relate but I was befriended by a young Indonesian girl in the bus who happened to have rich parents!.Lisa and I decided to escape the very busy city of Jakarta the next day and head towards Yogjakarta but unfortunately due to a Budhist holiday all the trains were booked.  Not to worry, we headed off to Bandung a city about 3 hours from Jakarta and spent the night there. The next day we left at 7 am and got the train to Yogjakarta which was about 8 hours. The scenery was beautiful and we travelled through lots of padi fields, amazing terracing, lovely little villages and mountains until we finally reached our destination. It was still the holiday weekend and Yogjakarta was SO busy full of people who had come to celebrate the Budhist celebration. We wandered around for ages looking for somewhere to stay but everywhere was fully booked. Eventually to cut a long story short we ended up sharing a hotel room with 3 very charming Polish travellers who we seem to be travelling with now!
  Anyway, my time is running out and so the story will continue of our visits to the amazing Borobudur and Prambanan temples today and of the shopping frenzy that Lisa and I seem to have found ourselves in!! Tomorrow we are heading off to the volcanoes Bromo and Ijen and then hopefully Bali. Will hopefully catch up soon.

Yogjakarta

Batik