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Dieng Landmark...

This is my first trip to Dieng plateau.

From Yogyakarta, I drive north heading to Magelang. You can actually take a shortcut via Borobudur complex and directly head to Salaman before you go to Kertek then to Wonosobo, instead of taking a round route via Magelang-Salaman-Kertek-Wonosobo. But this is my first trip, and I put my trust too much to the GPS software installed to my Samsung phone. So here I am, taking a significant longer route that in turn taking longer time to get to Wonosobo, where I will stay overnight before heading to Dieng plateau on the following day…

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Prambanan, Central Java

Prambanan, built in 9th century, is one of the largest Hindu temples in south-east Asia. It is characterized by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu temple architecture, and easily recognized from distance because of the towering central buildings inside the large temple complex…

Located around 20km east of Yogyakarta, Prambanan has three main temples in the center of the complex as the symbol of Trimurti in Hindu belief, namely Brahma (the creator), Wisnu (the keeper) and Shiwa (the destroyer). Each main temple is accompanied by one smaller temple, Hamsa for Brahma, Garuda for Wisnu, and Nandini for Shiwa. At the outer area, there are other 234 smaller temples, some of them are still yet to be reconstructed…

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Ratu Boko, Central Java...

Another beautiful site to visit in Central Java / Jogjakarta area.

This archaeological site lies on a small plateau about 196 meter above the sea level. The remains cover the areas of two villages, Dawung and Sambirejo, belong to Yogyakarta Special Territory Province, about 3 km to the south of Prambanan Temples.

And finally I got the chance to visit this site during my last vacation. Accompanied by an officer from Dinas Purbakala (Archaeological Service) of Central Java, I walked this site…

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