Travel to Yogyakarta in Indonesia – a historic city

How come the admission fee is different between local people and foreigners?

I visited Indonesia in Jun 2017,  I got to Yogyakarta and Lombok for 14 days, and I stayed in Yogyakarta for three nights first. It was not a short time, but I felt very short during my trip. Now that I’m posting, I’d like to travel so much. I’m sick and tired of this COVID!

I had to transfer at Jakarta airport because There was not direct flights to Yogyakarta, so It was a long flight. No pain, No gain!

Guess where? Here is the garden at Jakarta airport. I took this photo on the way to boarding. Looks so beautiful but I couldn’t get to inside the garden.

This is called Bakso made of fish balls and fried fish cake. It was the first Indonesian food I’ve tried and much better than I thought, plus less expensive.

On the Malioboro street, I think this is kind of tourist street having so many souvenir shops, shopping malls, cafes and restaurants. When I got there, It was rush hour so very crowed.

There are so many horse carts on the road for tourist. I’ve ridden this and also excited.

Prambanan Temple. This Hindu temple was built in the 9th century. Looks magnificent and huge, but You will know this has some damage when looking around.

The guide of the temple told us that a few years ago, A strong earthquake hit here, so many of buildings were destroyed.

Nice picture of Prambanan Temple after sunset.

I visited a hill to see the sunrise, but I only saw fog. That’s my luck, but it was fascinating and worth it.

Borobudur Buddhist temple was built in the 9th century. Here is the place you must go, if you visit Yogyakarta. What I felt strange was “How come the entrance fee for foreigner is much more expensive? I paid around 40 dollars for Prambanan and Borobudur combined entrance ticket, but it was more expansive than the ticket for the local people.

Top of the temple with a Buddha statue inside a pagoda that seems like a bell.

Every place where I went in the temple, It showed me a lot of statue. Here is the Buddha’s temple, so it was a bit different with Prambanan’s vibe. Actually, I’m not really interested in religion, so I couldn’t understand well what the guide at the temple was telling me, but his guidance was excellent. The only one problem was my poor English to listen to him.

And then, I went to a cafe in Malioboro Mall located Malioboro street to take a break. This coffee is very famous Kopi Luwak in Indonesia. This is the coffee that coffee cherries have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet, so very expensive in not native countries but here in Indonesia is much less expensive. I think It would be great for you to try it. It costed around 8 dollars.

There was an amazing experience for me. The aircraft that I had to board was right in front of me as soon as I go out of the gate, so I walked to the plane just for a minute and then I left Yogyakarta with a full filled local vibe.

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