Emersing in Nature near Yogyakarta

After arriving in Yogyakarta (or „Yogya“ for short), I went for a 2-hour walk 🚶‍♂️through the city centre and Maliboro Street and aligned with some other travellers on renting a car 🚙 with a driver for a day to go to some waterfalls 💦 and caves.

On the next day, we met at 8 am for breakfast 🍳 at a café that was located right in the middle between our hostels. Our driver had some issues with his car battery 🪫 and was therefore late to pick us up but we weren’t in a rush. Approximately 9 am we started our tour. The waterfalls are in the Javanese mountains 🏔️ and the car had its fair share of difficulties getting up the steep serpentines - we barely made it without getting out of the car and pushing it 😅
But the trouble was definitely worthwhile: the waterfalls were really amazing and we were basically alone there! We spent almost an hour in that tiny paradise 🌴
For lunch 🍵, we went to a nice restaurant „in the middle of the jungle“ that our driver has recommended. This place was so nice and quiet - quite the opposite to the noisy and bustling Yogya 😌
In the afternoon, we visited one of the nearby and impressive caves before we drove back to the city. I was really surprised by its size. When advertised, the cave did not play a big role but it was definitely worth the visit. Back in Yogya, I stayed at the hostel of my fellow travellers until dinner, since they were in a much nicer neighbourhood than me. A chicken teriyaki and a couple of beers 🍻 later (it was already past midnight), I headed back to my hostel and fell into my bed after a long and eventful day 😴😊Read more