~ Day 2 ~
I woke up so early on day two, it was around 05:00 am. I guess because it's a new place, but it was an hour early than Malaysia time. Which means I actually woke up at 04:00 am! LOL! #sistrynatahajudmaybe But then I had to wait for my bishes to wake up, and we went down to get our breakfast at 08:30 am, which left almost nothing for us to eat already. HAHAHA! Oh! Forgot to mention that during our stay, there's some Women Delegations thingy were happening there so there are so many women wearing their traditional dress. Some look like from Africa, Nigeria, and some other parts of Indonesia.
Our driver and tour guide came around 09:00 am, bring us to our first tour which is Sultanate Palace. I think they call it The Kraton of Yogyakarta. It is the official seat of the reigning Sultan of Yogyakarta and his family. It also serves as a center of Javanese culture and contains a museum displaying artifacts of princely provenance. We learned a lot about Sultan and his family and also the Javanese culture. It was fun ya'know, learn about new things. Oh, by the way, I forgot how much the entrance fee but it's already paid la. I mean, included in our package.
Picture @Sultanate Palace here!
And then, we went to Taman Sari or they call it Water Castle. I swear to God it was extremely hot but the place was so beautiful and stunning. The story behind this place is that the princesses used to bath here, and the Sultan will come, stand in the tower, hunting for a wife.
Picture @Water Castle here!
After that, we're supposed to visit Batik Home Industry & Silver Craft @ Kota Gede but we skipped that because all of us were too hungry already. We had our breakfast too early man tt_tt! We had lunch @ some local restaurant, and then we went to visit Mangunan Pine Forest. It was two hours journey by car, no kidding! We slept well tho.
Picture @Mangunan Pine Forest here!
I think we spent like thirty minutes only at Mangunan Pine Forest, then we rushed to Breccia Cliff because we don't want to miss the sunset. Luckily, we arrived on time. The sunset was around 04:00 pm, dude! After that, the sky turns cloudy. Glad we managed to get few awesome pictures here.
Picture @Breccia Cliff here!
Then, we had dinner @ local restaurant on our way back to the hotel. After that, our driver dropped us at the hotel, we went up to pray and shower, and go down again for a walk around Malioboro Street. We're so lucky that our hotel was very near to that famous street and night market so we could just walk there and save up some cash. Since we already decided to buy things on our last night, so we just walk here and there, surveying this and that only.
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