For our final day in Yogyakarta, we began with a quick trip down to the main street where there are a lot of cheap stores selling batik and other handicrafts. We weren’t too impressed, and frankly it seemed there was not a lot of variety so it was difficult to find anything truly unique, and then add in the fact that we are dragging around our three kids, and our shopping trip didn’t last too long. Then we headed to a place near the Sultan Palace called the Water Castle. It was actually pretty interesting. It used to be a bath house where all the potential concubines of the Sultan would bathe and then he would come and choose his next one there. Obviously it is not used any longer and suffice it to say, we didn’t try to explain anything to the kids, but it was somewhat interesting to walk around the buildings.
Then we headed out to our final stop at Prambanan temple. It is a Hindu temple and like Borobudur it was amazing to see.
There were also so super steep steps again and I ended up going down them on my bottom with Audrey on my lap because if I tripped (and I would have) it would not have been pretty.
There were these three muslim girls that couldn’t get enough of our kids, and it was a good opportunity to practice my Bahasa! They also were willing to take a picture of our whole family so it was nice to finally get one on the trip!
Overall, we really liked the trip and while we were exhausted from dragging our kids from place to place, they had a good time and we were glad we took them.
2 comments:
I could dig me a place like that bath house (minus all the concubines of course). Great pics!
That temple is a cool looking building!!
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