The Keraton Palace of Yogyakarta sits inside the Kraton – the palace city of the Sultan. The walled city houses 25,000 people, 1,000 of whom are directly employed by the Sultan. Today, the Kraton remains just as vibrant and bustling as it used to be – as it is a fully functioning city. In fact, …
How do you climb the wrong mountain (or hill)? I will tell you. We only recently discovered just where we went! If you are curious because you’d like to do the same (not climb the wrong mountain, but do the same hike) we think we went right here. After a quick search, I managed to …
Camera House Borobudur was another activity in which I had a little more interest than Kyle. Our homestay was in a fairly isolated area in the countryside and this was the closest thing to us so I thought we should give it a go. Camera House Borobudur Our first venture out there was our first time …
Yogyakarta has a large number of cafes, bakeries and sweet shops. We only got a chance to visit a few of them, but we’ve got the run down on the ones we did. In this article, Kyle wrote about Jasmine Cakery and Briana wrote about Almond Bakery and Il Tempo Gelato (we figured we might …
During our time in Jogjakarta proper, we tried out 3 restaurants: Nanamia, Via Via, and Milas. While we were able to cook, and thus we did for at least one, if not all meals + snacks in a day, sometimes we felt like something different. Kyle wanted to try a couple more local dishes and …