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- Jul 2, 2018
- ⛅ 31 °C
- Altitude: 106 m
IndonesiaYogyakartaKadipiro7°48’9” S 110°20’42” E
Last stop in Indonesia - Yogyakarta
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4:30am...Ring Ring Ring... The alarm goes off again for yet another early morning start. We jumped out of bed rolled into clothes and jumped in a grab to to the train station for our 6am train to our final destination in Indonesia, known by the locals as Yogya. On the train we created a quick plan of things we wanted to do and see and within an hour we arrived in Yogya. Having had no breakfast our first priority was to grab a bite to eat. Yogya is famous for many many dishes, of which you will read about, but probably the most famous is Gudgeg. All you vegans will love it. Its stewed jackfruit which gives quite a sweetened flavour served with rice and a spicy tempe. It was pretty yummy. We then ordered a Kopi Joss. Now this was a sight to be hold. Kopi Joss is an espresso coffee with a burning piece of charcoal in. Its crazy, it is literally just that! You drink the coffee with the coal still in which to be honest tastes like a regular coffee with dusty charcoal bits. Ah well gotta try everything!
While sitting around two students came and sat with us to practise their English. We lost track of time and realised it was 11am! Now starving we began to head down the main street. As we are pretty well educated when travelling nowadays we always read about the local scammers and as soon as we started walking a guy insisted on taking us to see a "Today only Batik Art Display". Basically the scammers will persuade you to buy "their artwork at a cheap price". Firstly the artwork isn't Batik and secondly they charge over 300, 000 Rp plus when originals start at 30,000 Rp! Although we knew it was a scam we decided to go see his paintings and then after 1 minute we quickly exited.
Starving and now very hot we grabbed a quick noodle soup and then started walking to our homestay. It was getting hotter and hotter by the second and the homestay was about 30 mins away still. We decided to jump in a grab as the heat was now becoming a bit much! When we arrived at the homestay the locals spoke no English and looked very confused why we were there. A gentleman rang his boss who told us we cannot stay there as they are not licensed for tourists. She said we could stay in her other homestay which was on the other side of town and much further away. Obviously we were not happy. We sat and searched for other places to go but they were all completely out of our budget. After quite a while we begrudgingly took up her offer and were able to knock the price down. The homestay was very very basic with just a mattress on the floor, a fan and cold shower but to be honest for the price we were able to do more! We stayed in the room for a while trying to relax and properly plan our last 3 days in Yogya. We booked ourselves in for 3 different walking tours to see all the sights, planned our trip to Borobudur and then finally headed out for some dinner of Bakmie Goreng and STMJ. Bakmie Goreng is fried noodles with chicken, egg, cabbage, spring onion, galangal and Soy. STMJ is a hot milk drink with ginger and honey mixed into a raw egg. I am going to miss the food here it's super tasty. We then headed back to the main street where they had Gamelan music playing and we tried Klepon which is traditional green-coloured balls of rice cake filled with liquid palm sugar and coated in grated coconut.Read more