Lema Samandar goes beyond Indonesia's popular tourist island to experience some of the country's other attractions.
Bali is the only Indonesian island most Australians know.
But my first visit to our northerly neighbour involved only a couple of hours at the airport in Denpasar before heading off to explore the culture and history of other parts of the world's biggest archipelago.
YOGYAKARTA
My first stop was Yogyakarta, on the island of Java. Despite getting only three hours of sleep our first task was to take a sunrise tour of the world famous Borobudur Buddhist monument.
A 3am wake up call and an hour's drive led us to one of the most ancient monuments in Indonesia, situated in the Regency of Magelang.
Tour groups, domestic school students and honeymooners had all gathered at the break of dawn.
With torches in hand, we walked up the steps to the temple, which is surrounded by mountains and volcanoes.
Once we had all caught sight of the breathtaking monument, our sleepiness began to subside.
Built around 800AD and acclaimed by the world as a cultural heritage of mankind, the temple is a kind of stepped pyramid.
The monument is both a shrine to the Lord Buddha and a place for Buddhist pilgrimage.
Borobudur has been called a three-dimensional portrait of the Buddhist conception of the cosmos and the carvings can be read as an instruction manual for attaining enlightenment.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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