Today was a tourist-day for us. Early in the morning we went with our enthusiastic tourguide to mount Merapi. This is a volcano on central Java. After 45 minutes drive we arrived on the foot of this volcano. From the foot there were two ways up: By motorcycle of by foot. The sportive ones choose foot offcourse, but the daredevils went on the motorcycle with the Indonesians. It was a very hot, but a lot of us made it to the top where we had a beautiful view over the hills. Also there we could see something of the impact of the volcano. A lot of vegetation was burned because the volcano gives al cloud of more than 200 degrees when it irrupts.
After the volcano we had a lunch at restaurant Orang Outang. The statue in the front of the restaurant (offcourse an Orang Outang) was a big attraction where we made a group photo.
And than finally we went to the Borobudur temple. This is a Buddhist temple. When we came out of the bus directly a lot of people came to us to sell stuff. Lucky the tourguide told us to bargain and some other tricks how to buy a how not to buy souvenirs from them. So we went to the temple. The temple was enormous. The temple has ten levels and on the side of the temple the story of Buddha to see made in stone. We went all the way up to the highest part what is called ‘heaven’. The guide said that you get energy from being in this place. When we were at this ‘heaven’ we had a beautiful sight of the surroundings and the temple complex. In this touristic attraction we became a touristic attraction ourselves. A lot of people wanted to take a picture with us because we were white and tall compared to the Indonesian people. This was a very weird but funny experience for us. Our laughing mussels where hurting after 30 minutes of being famous. We bought some souvenirs and went back to the hotel. At the evening we went to dinner and worked on the cases.
Jorge Jansen, 13th of November, Yogyakarta
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