Yogyakarta - Day 2

Anyone serious about seeing Borobudur should consider staying at the Hotel Manohara...its location simply can't be beat and the rates are reasonable...a night at the hotel includes unlimited access to the temple, plus, for an extra $15, the opportunity to access Borobudur before sunrise and importantly...before it is open to the general public...

we have signed up for the tour to visit borobudur in the pre-dawn in order to experience the sunrise...we need to gather abt 4am and every1 was given a small torchlight...we reached the temple abt 4:30am with very sleepy face...da sky was really dark, what we could do is wait n posing the camera for the best view....

however, a bit dissapointed as the hast was very heavy...the view wasnt really perfect...since we were hungry and every1 looked sleepy funny face...we went for buffet breakfast and backed to hotel to rest for a while...

notice me? with a towel on me...too cold~~ n i 4got to bring jersey...every1 hair was uncomb...haha

1 more "family photo" b4 we off for breakfast...impressive isnt it?

tk, CL, jp and i went back borobudur to take photo abt 9am...though it looked 10am+...the crowd was so scary!!! full of local n foreigner!! luckily we get the chance to take the whole borobudur just now, else i dun c any chance we can take the paranomic view...

the weather is hot, but still bearable...esp when i see the sky colour i love...it is very "sky blue" and the white cloud can be seen so obvious...i hate grey colour cloud...

too bad...a lotsa buddha head has been stolen...

i love all the photos we took in Yogya esp these...all have been taken in sunny day...

we packed and departed from Hotel Manohara b4 noon...we have booked for 4 days transportation wif CL's fren, it was MPV...the uncle, whom they call as Bapak fetch us for lunch after we checked out the hotel...

we took Nasi Padang as our lunch...sounds fancy, but it is actually our econs rice...malay econs rice 2 be precise :p the food are ok, average, but it was expansive, which probably because we are tourists...~~ so they just potong harga...can u imagine an egg cost IDR 8k ~ RM2.8??

things like tat, cost us total of 250k IDR ~ RM90...we eat like a millionaire -___-|| by end of the tour we found tat eat in proper restaurant is way more cheaper than roadside coffee shop...so pls be alert when u be there...!!

the next stop after lunch was Water Rafting! i've been so eager 2 try water rafting!! now's my turn *wink wink* it took abt 3 hours to finish the river rafting, the whole journey was perfectly wonderful for us~ we laughed the moment we stepped in the raft...throughout the 3 hours journey, we've been dumped in the river, swam in it, hit by the paddles and more to go...! it was very enjoyable, i am utterly fall in love with this sport! tat moment, i asked myself since when i did not laugh happily like this?

at night, we moved into backpacker hotel...RM40 per pax...unexpectedly, princess (according to celta mates) like me has no problem 2 overnight in this kinda environment :p to my suprise, this homestay is way better than what i imagined (@ least equiped wif aircon, heater and toilet is clean)...every morning breakfast provided, a big swimming pool and mainpoint is, it is in middle of yogya town...

really happy today :) how great if everyday i am enjoying life like this?