Yogykarta day 1

We arrived in Yogyakarta at 5am with about 1 hrs sleep because of a snoring man that even my industrial strength earplugs couldn’t cut out.
We went straight to our hostel got changed, brushed teeth and chilled on the sofas for 2 hours before heading out to find some breakfast at the first place that opened. We had French toast and coffee for breakfast before heading to the water castle. Taman Sari or the water castle turned out to be the Indonesian Instagram spot and basically nothing else. We then walked over to the Sultans Palace where there was a school trip for at least 1000 school kids. We watched a puppet show with cool music in the main square of the palace before learning about the history of Yogyakarta. The school kids made this extra entertaining due to their pointing and laughing at me specifically.
We then headed out for a snack and realised that it was only half 10 and we still had a lot of the day to fill despite feeling very very tired. We stopped at a juice hut where Sam had a mango juice and I and avocado, played some cards, wrote some kind words in the review book of the hut and the lady wanted to take our photo for we think their Instagram.
We continued walking and were told by multiple men that there was an art show to visit (anyone that has read these before may be able to predict where this is going). We then headed for a light lunch in another coffee shop, some chips, mini spring rolls, and mini fried potatoes covered in garlic aoli. We then walked back towards the hostel down the main market street and encountered more men offering us the art show. Eventually one got us talking and informed us it was the last day of the installation and luckily it was right near our hostel and he would take us there! Despite all the other guys telling us it was near them a 20 minute walk away. We eventually got rid of the man and checked into our room, had showers and realised it was still only 4pm, gosh we were tired.
We decided to head to a roof top bar to watch the sun set. There was no sun set, too much smog. We did have some very nice beers and nuts but decided that 4 beers for £12 was way out of our price range and headed to find dinner.
We went to a ramen restaurant that was huge and super busy. We ordered on an app and went up to the desk to pay. The cashier double checked we wanted mild ramen rather than no spice. We said yes of course and our gyozas and ramen arrived. Stunning but very very spicey. We then headed to get some snacks for our day trip tomorrow and a fish shaped ice cream sandwich before ending the day with some cards on the balcony. We then headed to bed at 9pm and was asleep before 9:30 oops.Baca lagi