Jogja

Unfortunate events occured to my two remaining housemates while they were on holiday. Both must have been bitten by a mosquito before leaving Palembang and Beth and Sarita both caught Dengue Fever and had to spend some time in hospital, as I understand, close to death! Very scary, but luckily both are now on the mend. However, this meant that mine and Beth's plan to meet in Jogjakarta before returning to work was somewhat disrupted.

Despite this I decided I would still have a good time. I managed to find a new friend, Calvin, to join me on my trip and be a stand-in Beth. We had booked a tour for our time in Jogja so most things were sorted out for us already. I met Calvin and our driver at the airport and we were taken to our hotel. One of the nicest I've stayed in! There were beautiful little ponds everywhere, all complete with big goldfish swimming around. That evening I started to feel a little bit under the weather, and this continued for the rest of the trip. I tried to ignore it but I did feel very ill! That evening we walked around in search of cheap food and stumbled across a locals area with what seemed like hundreds of little peddle-vehicles all decorated in bright neon lights and playing loud music.

Our hotel room

The bathroom was kind of outdoors, complete with fish pond.

The coloured lights in Jogja

The next day we were picked up at 8am and we went to the two temples that the Jogja area is famous for - Prambanan and Borobudur, Hindu and Buddhist respectively I believe. Both were very impressive despite the intense heat.

Me infront of Prambanan temple

Taken from inside Borobudur

On the second day of the tour we drove far into the mountains among the rice fields, which dare I say were more impressive than the ones in Bali! And went on for miles and miles. Up there it was actually quite cold, which we were not really prepared for. That day I had many bad toilet experiences due to my illness. We also went to a sulphur crater. Luckily we were given very fetching face masks to wear. Then the last stop on the tour was the Colour Lake, very pretty.

The sulphur crater

Colour Lake

The next day we went to the airport and flew back to Palembang/Bali for Calvin. My illness continued for about a week so I had my first doctors experience. They prodded me a bit and told me where I was sick, then gave me a load of medicine. All better now!

All my medicines!