Jogja

Prambanan Temple - Hindus temple at night in Yogyakarta

So much to offer, all close by..

Jogja or Yogyakarta is one of famous tourism and travel destinations in Indonesia. This city also famous as the center of culture, craft and beautiful natures. Yogyakarta city is known as a center of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, traditional dance, drama, music, poetry and puppet shows.

Beautiful landscape of Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta

Located near majestic Mount Merapi, a still-active volcano whose fertile outpourings have played such a prominent role in the area’s development as a population center in ages past, the historic city of Jogjakarta offers visitors a copious variety of cultural experiences. Prambanan and Borobudur temples from the Hindu-Buddhist epoch of the first millennium, built on a grand scale, speak of rich, ordered, quiet, lives bound to the cycles of nature. This epoch is echoed in the refined, intricate movements of the richly costumed dancers in the regular performance of the Hindu Ramayana epic poem, whose great lessons of life are still relevant, ensuring its future survival. The Historic Sultan’s Palace in the City’s heart, showcases the splendors of a bygone age and is the home of the highly evolved Central Javanese court culture.

Maliboro street at night

Jogja is a very lively city and a shopper's delight. It offers some good shopping and has a wide range of tourist facilities. The main road, Malioboro Street is 2 kilometers in length and always crowded and famous for its night street food-culture and street vendors which offers various kind of handicrafts. Many tourist shops and cheap hotels are concentrated along this street or in the adjoining tourist area such Sosrowijayan Street.

How to get there to Yogyakarta is not difficult to answer as there are several modes of transport making it all easy.

Warning: While Yogyakarta is safer than Jakarta, it's not free from pickpockets. Most of the time, Malioboro sidewalk is overcrowded, take standard precautions to protect your belongings.