Sunrise at Borobudur

Did you ever watch sunrise before? Where did you do it? Beach? Mountain? Your house roof? Have you ever watched sunrise at Borobudur? The biggest Buddhist temple in the world. My first time sunrise watching was at March 26th with my Japanese friends. 

The Borobudur gate was still closed when we got there at 4.30 a.m. Borobudur gate opened at 6 a.m (the ticket price was 190.000 rupiahs for tourist and 30.000 rupiahs for local people and KITAS holder.) 

That's why we decided to entered Borobudur temple through Manohara hotel. The ticket price was 400.000 rupiahs (and we got free snack.)  

When we got up in the Borobudur, there were couple of tourists already. Mostly were foreigners. 

This was my favourite shot. Mystical atmosphere.
                                                                                               

   

 Left: Borobudur temple at the dawn with Merbabu mountain background.
Center: Borobudur wall.
Right: Me and my Japanese friend, Wakako Miyagi. My best friend when I was in China.

  This was the view when sun was about to rose. It was foggy. 

 Pretty, isn't it?

 Japanese and their comical pose. Soo amusing ^_^

Beside the temple there were 2 museums in Borobudur area, museum dirgantara and museum borobudur. Both museums are free. 

We left Borobudur around 7 a.m. Our next stop was Prambanan temple. Prambanan and Borobudur were in 2 different locations.  Borobudur was located at Borobudur village in Magelang. And Prambanan was located at Kalasan in Yogyakarta. It took approximately 2 hours from Borobudur to Prambanan.

Me and Wakako in front of the temple.

The gang

The ticket price to entered Prambanan temple: the ticket price was 190.000 rupiahs for tourist, 85.000 rupiahs for foreign student (don't forget to bring your student card) and 30.000 rupiahs for local people and KITAS holder. There were 3 temples in Prambanan area. There were other facilities that you could enjoy for free, like museum, play ground (you could rented a bike for 20.000 rupiahs/ hour), cafe.

Me, riding a bike with Mr.Monk. 

(yes, he was a Japanese monk and couldn't speak Chinese nor English)