Bucket List item: Sunrise at the Borobudur temple in Yogyakarta – Indonesia! | Vlog 134
I’ll admit that I’m not particularly skilled at planning my trips and itineraries. However, I somehow always manage to see everything worth seeing. I knew there were temples in Yogyakarta and Java, but when I randomly booked a sunrise tour to Borobudur,I had no idea I was about to visit one of the seven wonders of the world. That discovery came as a wonderful surprise.
I’d seen a thousand pictures of this magnificent temple and its bells. These structures are actually stupas, not bells, each housing a Buddha statue inside. Whenever I saw photos of it, I always thought, “That’s a place I’d love to visit.” Little did I know it was located in Yogyakarta! Yet I had no idea, but to then suddenly stand on the world’s largest Buddhist monument was a great start to my day!
Temples in Yogjakarta
The last time I visited such an extensive temple complex was in Cambodia. I did a sunrise tour at Angkor Wat and spent three days exploring the rest of the temple complex. Regarding temples in Yogyakarta, I did stick to Borobudur in the morning and Prambanan in the afternoon.
The Prambanan temple is an 8th-century Hindu complex dedicated to the Trimūrti. Trimūrti expresses God as a creator, the preserver and the destroyer. The temple is the second-largest Hindi temple, just after Angkor Wat. I feel incredibly fortunate to have checked that off my bucket list at such an.
Sunrise tours typically make for much longer days than usual. I like my sleep-ins a lot and have always been more of a night person than a morning person. Therefore, it was only shortly after lunch that I finished seeing both temples.
Having already had such a full day as a traveller, I felt inspired to explore even more. After a quick online search, I found a park on top of a mountain outside of Yogyakarta, where they made some Instagrammable viewing points for tourists. The park wasn’t that special, but I was happy seeing all the lookouts! I went back to the hostel, where they hired scooters to get there.
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