Yogyakarta 25th-29th June 2010 -Part II

4 day : My friend and I skip the Sultan Royal Palace and Water Castle, we went to Dieng instead. Dieng is a highland of central Java, it take about 2 and a half hours from Borobudur. The winding road is filled with tea, coffee, vegetables and tobacco plantation view along the way.

Complex Candi Arjuna, Dieng

Dieng active volcano-Dieng plateau is really combination between heaven [because is located in highland] and hell [because found Sikidang crater].




sulphur craters

sulphurs

Telaga warna, bright green color and the coloration came from the sulphur cache underneath it.

Telaga warna

Yogyakarta 25th-29th June 2010 -Part I

With MAS airline promotion ticket to Jogjakarta round trip only cost RM 291 inclusive tax, I grab my ticket and here I am in Yogyakarta.

Nasi lemak

Adit is a friend that I gonna meet up in Jogja, I contact him through couchsurfing and he agreed to meet up omce I arrived after meeting up with pleasure he invited me and my friend to stay with him although he got another guest from the state too. Adit took us to have dinner and chiling outside the convenience store like a local.

Street arts all over Jogja is the first thing I notice.

Local prefer to buy drinks from convenient store and then just sit in front of the store and chills. We are one of them too

Street performance also very common here

2nd day: Adit and his gf- Maria took us to Museum seni and budaya Jawa located at kaliurang. It take about 30mins from the city center. Indeed it is a nice place to visit if you got extra time.
entrance fees (Foreigner :RP 50,000 Student: RP 25,000 Local: RP 25,000) . Bring your student card if you got one.

Mt.Merapi

Adit took us to MT. Merapi but the weather wasn't nice to us.
Gunung Merapi located in the southern area of central Java, overlooking the ancient royal city of Yogyakarta, is the most active volcano in Indonesia.

Houses was destroyed and people was killed by the eruption of Mt.Merapi

3rd day : Adit took us to the famous Prambanan. It was too crowded during our visit. tourist are everyone.
(foreigner :USD15, foreign studens USD7,local: Rp15000)

Prambanan Temple complex, a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Borobudur
(foreigner :USD15, foreign studens USD8,local: Rp15,000)

Borobudur was too crowded, surrounded by locals and tourists thus I can't take much pictures.

A trip to remember

Visit few friends in Thailand and they organised an awesome road trip to the orphanages in Shangklaburi- Western Thailand border of Burma(Myanmar) .

Mark, Cody,Dwight, Joel and me rented a van to Shangklaburi. From Thailand to Shangklaburi it take about 6 hours journey.

Baan Unrak Children's Village is the first orphanage we visited

Dwight the funder of InsearchofSanuk organised a party -Lush2 in Bangkok to raised fund for children and we passed the donation to them.

Children taking nap

Playing games with children

Joel playing guitar and sing with kids

After that we went to Baan Dada do some voluntary works and spent a night

Learning dancing

I was guiding him to brush his teeth and take bath after that he refused to wear his cloth and i though he doesn't likes the shirt , I asked him to choose any cloth that he likes yet he refused. I couldn't understand him, end up by helping of two other orphans finally we know why! because he lost his clay and he wants it back. Now he is happily cloth on . His name is Alibaba.

Delicious vegetarian foods cook by local single mothers

Single mother make some earning

This is their bed room


Teaching children

Don't know why they are excited for banana leaf

biting hard

That's the reason! as a shade

Have a walk with them under the hot sun

Phone, Joel, Dada Prasat,Dwight,Me,Mark, Dada Richard and Cody

Thank you video from children of Baan Dada

You never know with your little help can bring a big smile on children face and even save their life. You can visit Baan Dada and Baan Unrak to make donation or do some voluntary works. Thanks!

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has the eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Saint Augustine

Lets Sing

Thank you Michael =)

CS city attack Festival

KL couchsurfing group organised a series events for traveller and the local in KL and we had fun :)

Travelling is not about setting your footprints at a country but to meet the local.

day trip

Went batu cave with Marco (from Italy) and Notti

At Genting

With Notti

Went Putrajaya with Gallen, Dada, Marco and Notti. Thanks to Gallen and Dada ;)

Is sunday

Brunch at Jaya1 with wings and Huey.

went to look out point again but this time is with Zul, Andre,Damien and George.

Cameron Highland

Went CH with a friend, Malte was totally a brand new experience for me. we took bus, rented a motorbike, jungle tracking & etc..

our guesthouse

tea plantation



~Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.~