Jogjakarta and Its Vicinity [Gallery]
13 Oct 2011 2 Comments
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Right. This is a long-due post. I made a trip to Jogjakarta last year – my second after my first time years and years ago when my cousins still lived there. Just today, after I read about the royal wedding that will take place next week, I realised that apart from the piece about the Mendut candi and vihara, I wrote nothing more about my trip. Guiltily, I browsed my folders to find the pictures I made there.
Not too many. And I was using my old pocket camera so the quality of the pictures was somewhat I’m not too proud of. But anyway, here are some of the pictures I made in Jogjakarta and its vicinity (areas like where the Borobudur is situated are parts of the Central Java province).
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- The convenient night train that brought us to Jogjakarta from Jakarta.
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- Our breakfast one morning. Jogjakartan culinary is known for its sweet taste, so if you don’t like sweet, be warned.
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- Colourful, interesting old houses in the Kauman area. This is where many followers of Muhammadiyah, one of the two biggest Muslim organisations in Indonesia, reside.
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- The kraton mosque.
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- Royal carriages in the special museum.
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- A very old abdi dalem is showing a picture of him when he was still very young. He has served the kraton for decades.
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- Colours, like cultures, blend harmoniously in the kraton.
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- A gamelan set in the kraton.
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- The kraton is colourful and shows various influences.
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- Giant doors in the kraton.
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- Despite being a Muslim sultanate, the Jogjakarta kraton still reveres Hindu figures, as seen in the ‘kemenyan’ put before this Ganesha statue.
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- An interesting touch of the colonial style.
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- Visit Jogja’s sidewalks at night for street food and warm chitchat with people.
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- The presidential palace.
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- So many food to taste of Javan background in Jogjakarta!
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- Visit Pasar Beringhardjo for cheap local products.
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- A view of the Malioboro street with a TransJogja bus stop.
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- The giant tree on the yard of Candi Mendut.
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- The steps leading to the stupa of Borobudur, the single largest Buddhist monument in the world.
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- A view of the lands around Borobudur from the upper tiers of the candi.
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- The Ramayana is performed regularly in Prambanan, an ancient Hindu temple in the city.
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- The magnificent scene of massive fire in Ramayana.
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- Street names in Jogja are written in Latin and Javanese scripts like this one.
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- Tamansari complex, the royal baths, show Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and European influences.
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- A glimpse through the gates of a house near Tamansari.
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- The lands around Tamansari belong to the court, but abdi dalem and their families were given special privileges to build homes on them.
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- Masks on sale in a shop near the Tamansari complex.
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- Underground tunnels abound in Tamansari. There’s even an underground mosque.
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Jogjakarta – home of kings past and present, a sanctuary of faiths, a refugee of the Republic during its harsh times – may you live long and prosper.
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