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    A warmer and yummier cup of Java

    July 6th, 2007 by steve

    After Jakarta, we had a great time tooling through the temples and volcanoes of Java. The main cultural center of Yogyakarta is home to matching shrines, one Buddhist and one Hindu. The Hindu temple, Prambanam is a complex off fascinating skyscraper style buildings. At night, the Ramayana story is played out in a ballet style in front of the temples. There’s fighting, flying arrows, magic and lots of FIRE when the Monkey god-dude burns the stage down.

    Borobodur is the largest Buddhist temple anywhere. Maybe? Too many temples and boasts to keep them all straight. We stayed at the resort on the temple grounds and enjoyed our breakfast while the greenskeepers made it all pretty.
    Yogyakarta itself we found pretty interesting and I got a lot of practice on the scooter. There’s a cool bird market where you can buy bats, owls, monkeys, mongoose, whatever you like. I decided I really want an owl. They’re so cool. We had some really good back-alley food here, too.

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    1. Anonymous Says:

      Man, you guys just keep having the life of a lifetime, if that makes any sense.

      Love the South East Asia parts.

      Mark H (on the Oasis truck in Africa)

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