Jogja

            Last year was my fourth semester. In that semester I got a long holiday. But as usual, the schedule in my university was so annoying. When other university have already start a new semester, my university had just start the holiday. So, I didn’t have any friends to spend my holiday. Just staying at home really made me bored. Then, I thought to spend my holiday somewhere out of this town. Accidentally I heard a good news from my friends if Kereta Api Indonesia company held a special promo tickets to out of town. Immediately, I ask my friend to join me having a trip to Jogja and then we booked the tickets. After we got the tickets, we arranged some plans about how the trip would be, like how long we will stay there, what places that we want to be visited, how about the accommodation, hotels, budget, and etc.

            On September 9^th 2013 we went to Jogja by train from pasar senen station at 22.00 and arrived at lempuyangan station on September 10^th at 06.26. As you looked in that picture, I went there with the lovable one, Noris Iskandar. After we arrived in lempuyangan station, we took a becak to bring us to puspita hotel. After that we had breakfast and took a rest for a while. In our first day there, as the plan that we had arranged, we decided to went to Borobudur temple. We went at noon, around 13.00 by a motorcycle that we had rent from pamitran motor rent. Borobudur is located in Magelang, central Java. It was far away from our hotel so we have to rode our motorcycle for about two hours. To enter the Borobudur temple, we have to paid Rp 20.000/person. Borobudur is the famous buddhist temple. Borobudur is one of the wonders of the world, so no wonder why there were many tourists there. And… here is the picture of Borobudur temple taken from the top. How beautiful it is. Not only enjoy how wonders Borobudur is, we also can look the beautiful secenary from the top of Borobudur temple.

            On our second day in jogja, we decided to went to two places in a day. First we were going to goa pindul and then we’re going to indrayanti beach. Goa pindul is located in Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta. We went there by motorcycle and the trip from our hotel to goa pindul took about one half hours.  Goa pindul cave offers a set of interesting natural scenery and unique traveling experience. This cave provides a different style of enjoying activity. Especially, when we are laying on a set of tubes, we can enjoy drifting along the pindul river underground with its unique caves. It filled with a cluster of bats, the magnificient stalactites within. And here is our picture when trying cave tubing……

            After trying cave tubing we’re  continue our journey to indrayanti beach. The trip from goa pindul to indrayanti beach tooks 45 minutes. This beach is different from other beaches in Yogyakarta. This beaches have a new modern concept than others. It seems from the location and facilities arrangement. There were many restaurants lined at the seaside. The colourful umbrella adorn the white sand and corals. This is such a beautiful beach. And here is the picture of scenary in indrayanti beach taken from the top…

            And in the third day, we just went shopping to malioboro, spent the night in alun-alun, having dinner in bukit bintang, and ect. surely, bukit bintang was such a romantic place. Unfortunately, we didn’t take some pictures there because my camera was low battery.

On september 13^th, our last day in Jogja we just continued our shopping and bought some merchandise for our colleagues, and then we back to Jakarta by progo train. We left jogja at 15.30 from lempuyangan station. At 23.49 we arrived in pasar senen  station and went home soon. Pretty sad, but that was very our quality time in jogja. That was a nice trip. Thankyou jogja for saving our beautiful memories. Hopefully, this semester we could explore another city.