Welcome back! In this time, I will tell my holiday experience that begins on December 26, 2014. This vacation was very special because it was accompanied by the New Year’s Eve. My family and I visited the city of Yogyakarta for 10 days. We chose the city because that's where my aunt lived, and she had just given birth a baby girl! I can’t wait to see that cute baby again! Yogyakarta is a city that is suitable for travelled, besides traveled, the city is suitable for culinary. Therefore, we establish to go to the city of Yogyakarta. Our trip started on Thursday, the day after the division my report. Previously we would like to use the train, but the tickets are already sold out so we used our private cars. It took 15 hours to get there. Very long time, isn’t it? We stayed in my aunt house, this house was big enough so it can contain some family members. Our first destination upon arrival in Yogya is my aunt house to rest before exploring and sightseeing in this beautiful city.
Day continues, arrived on Friday! Pleasant morning was good for our large family gathering. The first tourist attractions we will visit today is Prambanan Temple, in fact I've visited this place several times, but one of my cousins had never been there. Unfortunately, my aunt did not participate because she had to keep the baby at home. Prambanan Temple is located in Sleman, Yogyakarta. This temple is a masterpiece of Hindu culture, located in the Park of Prambanan. It was very hot day, like boiled in boiling water. Therefore, we used the umbrellas that was available in the car, there was many traders who sell umbrellas there, maybe just in case if the day will be rain or scorching heat like this. Before entering the territory of the Park of Prambanan, we have to buy the tickets available at the counter, I do not know for sure how much because I did not come to queue to buy the tickets hehehe (peace). When we were in, we do not enter into the temple because the day was so hot so we just took pictures from the front of the temple. Finished having fun at Prambanan Temple, our stomach felt hungry, we decided to eat at Rumah Makan Bebek Hj. Slamet. The duck here was very tasty! Spicy taste was felt continued to stick on the lips. Today was already late, we decided to immediately go home because my aunt and her baby already waiting for our arrival. The first day was pretty fun, here are some photos that we took while at Prambanan Temple!
On the second day, we were confused to go where. However, my aunt had an idea to visit Jogja City Mall. The mall recently built, the building was very large, you could say this mall is quite luxurious. If it compared with Bandung, JCM (Jogja City Mall) is proportional to the TSM (Trans Studio Mall). In the afternoon, we went to our destination. The place that we visit first was a place that sell delicious ice cream namely Ice Mania, but the shop was only available in Yogyakarta, the shape of this delicious ice cream is like this, Unique is not it?
After visited the JCM, we visited the restaurant named Nutellaria. This is the place where all kinds of foods and beverages made from nutella. For me this place was a paradise because I love the nutella! Our trip up on the third day. On this day, we will visit the Indrayanti Beach. Very far away, it took 2 hours to get there. And the view was incredible! Not in vain we drove a few miles to get there. Indrayanti Beach is the beach which it always visited by many people, here there are many traders who rent tents, tent-shaped umbrella and mat in it, the function of the tent was to shelter from the scorching sun. What a pleasant day could arrive there! Here are some photos I took there :)
The fourth day in Yogyakarta, we use to relax and indulge in one of the famous mall in Yogyakarta, namely Plaza Ambarukmo. In this mall we just ate and shopping, because our body feels tired so we choose to go back to the house. At home I play with my new cousin, her name is Yona! She is very adorable, beautiful and have white skin. On 7th of January, her age exactly 3 months. Supposedly she lived in Bandung, but because her mother enrolled in Yogya so she had to stay in Yogya.
Wednesday is the day that I waited because the night was New Year's Eve! But that night something bad was happen, one of my car key lost when we bought corn for the New Year’s Eve. Looks like it had fallen down somewhere and it was one of my driver fault because he was very sloppy. If there’s no key, we would not be able to go to Bandung. My mother and grandma so panic, since it costs very expensive to replace it with a new key and required a long process as well. So we decided to take the car spare key to send it past the train, it only took a day to get in Yogya. My driver also help by advertise it on the road we passed last night. And Thank God there is someone who find it! He said that the key lay in the street near the store that sells the corn! We gave money to him as a token of gratitude for the good that he did.
The days that we passed in Yogyakarta was fun, after visit many tourist attractions, do not forget we also visited places of culinary! Among Tengkleng Gajah, Kali Milk Tea, LOKAL Restaurant, Ice Mania, and many more. Although there was many kind of food, but a typical food of Bandung was more better! Bandung has always been the best in my opinion, in terms of weather, places, until the culinary. Our last day in Yogyakarta was bought souvenirs, we visited Batik Mirota, Dagadu Jogja and Malioboro, then the next day we took off to Bandung at 4 am.
So that was my holiday experience in Yogyakarta. Thank you for reading! Have a nice day.
