One of my friend has inspired me about Jogja temples, once I have seen the pictures I just fall in love with its natural way. I am the traveler at heart love to see and curious the new difference world and adventurous to seek for the mystery. I am enjoying traveling with myself [SoLo] to anywhere with no plan or Plan do not a plan just go with the flow.
One of my high school friend she never been traveling to abroad, thus this time I brought her with me to show and guide her how to travel like a local. Our flight arrived to Jogja international airport at 7pm the first schedule was 6pm but the flight was delayed, I took taxi from airport to hostel that the only fast and easy way to find Sae Sae hostel which we had booking.
We started starving and looking for the local foods, street food, one of special dish here is [SS spicy] restaurant was recommended by my lovely SaeSAe hostel staff, tons of people were standing and waiting for the reservation, so I and my friend were standing outside of the restaurant till they called our reservation number. Finally, we got the seat took us almost 40mins, we did not know what to order no English on menu we have no idea we gazed to next table and ordered like what local eating, mentioned here all foods are super spicy, we could not finish our foods we left and checked bill, I was burnt twice by the foods.
First day:
We took our own tour to see the city, rented the motorbike with 5$ per day, I don’t have a driving license, I meant international driving license. I got used to drive on the right side but here they kept on the left side so very confusing to me, it was dangerous with the opposite direction.
We went around the palace, museum, to see their rich history, cultural and temples. Jogja is the conservative place most of the Muslim people covered with the hijab, so I have to dress long trouser and covered all. On the traveling, you have to understand each place each country, respectful their own culture and traditional value with no excuse.
We had spent half day exploring the city then head to coffee shop which that very special coffee, it has made from animal poop and very famous one in the history. I am a coffee lover so it was very attracted me to visit there, one girl from the shop showed and told us about the coffee history how it was processing to be done the best coffee. I was enjoying listen to her detail, great taste of coffee but it was so expensive one cup of black coffee from animal poop has cost almost 10USD but if we bought one pack from their shop will free three cups of different taste of coffees for tasting, one pack of coffee costs 35USD.
testing poop coffee 
It was raining day so we had lunch at the coffee shop, people eating sweet foods and sweet drinks in Jogja that what I could not cope with, I was sick of the same curry smell everywhere, instant noodles are always my best friend when I travel to where I cannot stand for their local food. I am easy going but eating so picky.
Rain has stopped we moved to [water castle] has known as the former sultan’s palace, the beautiful story about sultan’s family, it is very huge place at least you have to spend 3 hours to see around. But we have a rush time to see another temple is [Prambanan] about 18km from town.
water town
I rode the motorbike only 30mins while other local told me about 1 hour drive haha I am the F1 or maybe I was driven fast, I took the risk on motorbike with no idea about the location and no driving license but finally it worth to see the amazing and stunning [Prambanan]. The entrance ticket was cost me 20usd, there are a lot of local people and tourist, after many capturing then return back to the city.
Just my opinion here if you don’t like sweet things better bring your own snack or something that you can survive. I met one guy from Couch surfing, I had organized one event meeting up with the CSers but the only one person came was Steven. He is the local people and a nice guy, he brought us to one restaurant I told him I could not stand with sweet things anymore then he gave me a hardly laugh. The local people still limited with English so we had a barriers language, luckily, I met him who is local, once order foods I told him no sugar, and I seriously again no sugar on foods, eventually foods came out with no sugar yeah but salty.
Second day:
It was pretty hard to wake up at 3am in the early morning and stay till sunrise. This was my first time in life to wake up and see sunrise from the hill. Up to hill with no power and damn sleepy Oh god, I was about to sleep there, but I waked myself, MJ you were here to see sunrise. At 5.30am the sun goes up with the colorful, it was stunning, incredible scenery ever. It definitely woke me up and Wow…………………………It’s totally worth!
After finished seeing sunrise we headed to Borobudur temple about 45Km from town and took one and half hour driving. Ancient temples like Prambanan, Borobudur and other in ASEAN countries I have been around its quite similar but they have their own story to tell.
