I woke up 4am n start preparing for the sunrise, sleepy, but excited! and I sadly found tat, I forgot to charge my handphone before I sleep!! T_T well, since I probably cant take any nicer pics than the DSLRs, I left my phone to charge in the room. At around 430am we went to collect our sunrise passes and a tourch light each at the reception, and the guide lead us to the entrance of the great temple, dark, but the temple was lighted with a few spot lights, so it was still very visible. The view at the top was simply amazing~ pictures speak loader than words, so here's some pics from YitPong n Irene~
We had a lot of fun taking pictures, hehe, and all the pictures taken here was damn nice!
Shamron was suppose to meet us at the reception at 7am, but we totally ignored the time n stayed there till around 7am, before we finally went bek to the hotel to hav our breakfast. After the buffet breakfast we went bek to our room to pack n said good-bye to the great borobudur~
buffet breakfast,juz so-so
A snap around the hotel
So we began our journey to Dieng Platuer, which was around 2 hours drive from borobudur. There's some pretty nice views along the way.
snaped tis while we stoped for toilet
seems tis is the gas tank tat the indos use, cute huh?
At the gates of Dieng we paid IDR 3,000 per person for entrance, and IDR 2,000 for the car, and shortly after the gate we reach our first destination, Telaga Warna. the entrance fee was IDR 7,000 per person, you can also hire a tour guide there if you want, but we decided to go by our own. It's actually quite cold up here, juz think cameron highlands in Malaysia :-p I was quite amazed by the view, the lake is really blue/green, cant really tell :-p
After another session of phtot shooting, we decided not to walk round the whole lake n headed to our next destination, the plateur! I was really excited to see lava~ well, I know it wasn't going to be real lava, still, I was lookign forward to it~
Wasn't really lava, but still, I was amazed. It was like water boiling all the time, u can even hear the sound. a little sulfur smell there, but not really strong.
Well, I spoted some really nice stalls with some nice accessories there, n they were selling rings n braclets made from a sort of metal (i forgot the name) which they claim doesn't turn black even when contact with sulfur (and it was proven to be true later). so Irene n I bought ourselves a couple of rings and braclet~
And while we were busy choosing the accessories, YitPong n Lim kept themselves busy too, hehe. They bought some fried tempei and fired potatos from the stalls there, n they really taste great!
Tempei goreng
Fried Potatos~
Next we went to the Arjuna temples, the entrance fee was IDR 20,000 per person (around RM7).
Before the starting trail
start walking!
The walk along the trail was quite enjoyable too, you can see a lot of flowers along the way, and the farmers working in the farm too.
bunch of potatos
nice flower
After a short walk we finally reach the Arjuna temples, which was not as great after prambanan and borobudur, but it was the serounding views tat impresses me.
After some photos we cotinued walking to the other side of the temple where Shamron will be waiting for us. and from far I spotted something tat got me all excited!
wat's tat???
SHEEP!!
cute~
And also some shotting arounds before we go bek to the city~
I like tis one~
And on our way down from Dieng, we stoped by at a watch tower we saw on our way up to snap some pics there
After we snaped the photos I was totally attracted by something really special, tis guy was selling some edelwise and vase, but wat amazes me was, the wood he used to crave the vase, was already "born" with stripes, dunno how to explain, look at the pic---->
I have never seen any wood as nice as tis! tis is realy amazing!! so I bought the vase and some coasters for IDR 20,000.
Then it was a long drive from Dieng back to yogjakarta city where we were going to spend the nite. Half way thru we stoped by a restaurant to hav lunch/high tea. The place was still ok, but as usual we were the onli customers, they serve fast food here, the food was juz ok.
tis plate and ice jeruk cost IDR 17,500
We manage to reach the Mendut temple, a short distance away from Borobudur before sunset, so we stoped by to visit it. The entrance fee was IDR 3,000 per person. There's some souvenier shops around there, so u can shop if you want, but remember to bargain.
Before we went in, a short visit to the toilet...
saw tis japanese monument, no idea wat it's for...
The mendut temple was a very large temple tat stood by it's own, there's a large bodhi tree beside it, a video crew was filming something there, but we din really mind them :-p
large bodhi tree
On our way to yogjakarta city, we saw mount Merapi from far~
It was already dark when we reach the city, we went to a quite famous spot in the city, alum-alum, to see the sultan's palace and the 2 famous trees. Acording to some old-folks tale, if u blind-fold ur eyes, stand some distance from the trees, turns 3 rounds and manages to walk thru between the trees, you'll hav good luck. well, it's not as easy as u think, we all failed....
There's some local stalls around there, so we tried the food (hungry.....)
The Hotel we were planning to stay was fully booked, so we found ourselves another hotel near the Malioboro street. Actually a lot of hotels over here if u dun mind the quality :-p we took a room for 4 tat cost IDR 290,000 (around RM 103.5) aircon room, included welcoming drink and breakfast for 4, u can online using the computer in the cafe too, not bad actually, but the room condition was not really good, n the attached bathroom was terrible >_<" but for tat price, it was already not bad.
The welcoming drink, choose from coffee or tea
The receipts for the day
After we took our bath we went for a walk around the Malioboro street. This is actually quite a famous street for tourist, u can find a lot of souviniers over here, and of coz, remember to bargain. However, the shops were already all closed when we got out... so we juz tried some local food stalls tat was still opened, walked around a bit, and went back to bed, Shamron will be there 530am the next day, so need to wake up at 430am!
We decided to drop by the famous Gunung Merapi before starting our long journey. The viewing spot seems to be some old housing area but was destroyed after the 2006 eruption. There's some shops there, probably selling souviniers and photos of the eruption, but they aren't open yet when we reach there. Well, the weather was nice but we wasn't having too much luck, a big chunck of cloud blocked the view and we couldn't see the top at all, I can imagine, it must magnificent to see Mt Merapi from there.... anyway, the view from the top was nice even thou we missed the view of the volcano.
It was already around 8pm when we finally reach Mt Bromo. We stayed at Cafe Lava, IDR 250,000, about RM89 for a double room, with hot water(very important) and buffet breakfast, the environment and the rooms are quite nice. 
