The streets of Jalan Malioboro

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Jalan Malioboro is a major shopping street in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The street is the centre of Yogyakarta's largest tourist district surrounded with many hotels and restaurants nearby. Sidewalks on both sides of the street are crowded with small stalls selling a variety of goods. In the evening several open-air streetside restaurants operate along the street. Less obvious to the tourist, but more for the local population are the side streets, lanes and structures that lead on to Malioboro are as important as the street itself.

My travel mates and I named this "the Orchard Road of JOG".

May 2012 Yogyakarta - Highlights

Some snapshots from the 3-day trip.

(1) This cat at the villa likes to cozy up to us. He has got beautiful eyes.

(2) At Sultan Palace and Water Castle, we had to buy a "photo permit" in order to take photographs

(3) The children in the mountains piled on more clothes as the night falls

(4) Borobudur Temple is one of the World Wonder Heritage

Our itnerary for the three days

Day 1 : We arrived at Yogyakarta Airport at 11.30AM. Our villa was only 30 minutes from the airport. We were able to check in very quickly. By then we were hungry so we decided to have lunch at Villa Hanis. After that, we called for a metered-taxi to take us to Jalan Malioboro. We also found a nice massage palour called "Kakiku" along the streets.

Day 2 : Our plan for the day was to visit Borobudur Temple and Mount Merapi. Our tour driver also took us to a massage palour and an interesting restaurant at the end of the day. We paid about IDR120,000 for an one-hour body massage (approximately SGD17!).

Day 3 : We brought tripods for this trip and we were determined to take some photos of sunset. The tour driver recommended that we should visit Sultan Palace and Water Castle "Taman Sari" in the morning. We visited Prambanan after lunch and stayed there until sunset. Unfortunately it was a cloudy day and we could not get any shots of the sunset.

Day 4: Rise and shine! We woke up at 4AM and began to get ready to go to the aiport. Our return flight to Singapore was 7.30AM. Air Asia is the only airline that flies direct from Singapore to Yogyakarta and they only have one return flight (YOG/SIN) per day.

The crafts that I brought on this trip

Canon 500D

Tokina f2.8 11-17mm

Canon f4.0 28-105mm

Tripod Canon S100