When we got Andhikas house at 3:00an Annie and Alex fell asleep so I stayed up to help Andhika pack his bags, but didn't actually help at all, just sat and watched! I wouldn't know where to start, his house is like a jumble sale of clean clothes thrown underneath dirty ones! And he also didn't care that he didn't even have a suitcase... 1 hour before we set off!

At 4:15 we took a taxi to the airport and walked to the check in desk at 4:50... Casually an hour before our flight leaves! Andi said we have loads of time, me and Annie were having palpitations!

The flight was only an hour to JogJakarta and we're now an hour behind Bali again so this is 6 hours ahead of England! I now despise the air con on the plane, its always made me ill after every single flight we've taken, too many disgusting germs being distributed in my airways! I need to find a cheap gas mask or a quarantine outfit to travel in!

Got a taxi at the airport to Malioboro, and walked along a street of guesthouses just off of the main strip of local stores and stalls!

Walked around a few before finding ours for for 150,000.00(£10)! This was the cheapest which was surprising considering I was told its very cheap here. As I've had zero sleep for 48 hours now I went straight to bed at 7:00am!

Woke up, showered and went to go eat at 2:00pm! Someone should've woken me :/

We went and had the nicest local Javanese food I've ever tasted - Nasi Gudeg! It's the usual rice and fermented crackers with peanut and bean blocks, served with three different sweet sauces made from Buffalow skin apparently! The Gudeg is young jack fruit fried with coconut milk, makes it taste so sweet! All this, served up in a banana leaf! Lush!

From there, we took a bus to Roro Jonggrang, also known as 1,000 temples! The local buses are so much better here, you have to pay to get into the shelter, which prevents crime and speeds up the service of the buses!

When we arrived we had to pay £13 each, the most expensive temple or sight for that matter that we've ever seen! Made especially annoying by the fact that Andhika and Alex only had to pay £2:80 local price! I'm not saying this is a good or a bad thing but I think what's wrong with the system is our country has different rules where foreigners are now treat equally, so to not be racist! So it would be nicer if other countries followed the same, more polite rules as ours but, hey-ho!

Andhika explained that the 1,000 temples were built in 900AD and it took 24 hours for it all to be constructed! According to the ancient fable, the king ordered the 1,000 temples to be built after the goddess told him that in order for her to ever love him, he would have to be capable of the impossible ie. building one thousand temples in one night to prove his love!

She sounds like such a diva! You'd think she would be happy with just constructing one little temple but oh no! She sounds more demanding than Annie!

Anyway after construction finished on time and all the temples were counted, they realised there were only 999! Bad times for the king, he's not getting any now! Personally you'd have let him off one right? No, she refused him her love and so in his anger, he turned her into a statue, which is inside the main temple! Proper ghost central in there!

This is the fable that the locals are all taught in school here and I assume it must be somewhere in the Quran too. We saw the statues of Shiva, Ganesha, Agastya and Durga as Roro Jonggrang inside the main centre temples! It has a spooky feeling inside!

Walked back to get the bus to Malioboro and went to eat chicken soup, which is like a home made pot noodle with local spices, from a food court in the shopping mall.

Then play time! Spent some mulah in the arcade upstairs! Won 69.3 million tickets playing on the air hockey and basketball hoops! Even though it's a touristy, not cultural thing to do at all, it's built for the local teenagers and thats we're the boys wanted to go!

Won a sheet of fish stickers for me - Yeeha! I love collecting tat to go in my travel book and remember random times like this with good people!

Went to walk down Malioboro Street past The Presidents Palace, where there's lots of stalls selling batik's and other local handicrafts!

Tried some fried banana and bread, vegetables, tofu ect from a street stall! Il miss these cute little tasty stalls everywhere when I get to England, someone should open one in Hull!

We stopped to watch a little street performing band, with a guy playing the Angklung, a detailed bamboo instrument that gives off some funny sounds!

We took a ride on a carriage pushed along by a man riding a bicycle on the back (a javanese rickshaw), to Sultans Square.

Annie and Alex strolled off into the distance whilst we had to keep getting off our cart so the poor old tired man driving it, could re-inflate the punctured tyre! It was so sad to see! He had skinny little legs and he said it kept making it hard for him to peddle us so after stopping the second time, we decided to pay him his money and walk their instead! Such a nice thought of Andhi's and the poor man couldn't have been more thankful, id rather give money to someone like this that's trying to earn a living too, rather than just begging on the streets!

When we arrived, its a square full of Asian tourists all blindfolded trying to walk from point A to point B at the other side of the field, game called masangin! The aim is to make a wish before and then try to walk, ensuring you go in between the two ancient ficus trees and not around them! Only a few people that can get in touch with their inner spirit can do it all the way!

We figured it must be easy as pie so me and Annie gave it a shot and couldn't get anywhere near the trees! We though we were doing so well too and yet we ended up walking backwards and onto the road that surrounds! The only way we could manage it was by cheating and setting off 20 Metres from the start point where we were closer to the trees! I don't think our wishes are still valid in this case! :(

This place was so cute, they have tricycles to rent or you can ride a tuk tuk that lights up and peddle it around the park, it's so romantic! But, indecisive o'clock again, we never did!

Left to get a drink of wedang ronde on the way back home, tasted very odd, not quite as good as Cendol but nice! Its made of dough balls, peanuts and jack fruit, all floating in a bowl of hot ginger soup! Apparently it's a very healthy local sweet that even Andi and Alex didn't like!

Got home at 1:00am finally, my feet were killing! Were up at 5:30am to go to the largest temple in Indonesia (the reason why we came here) tomorrow! Can't wait!

Today's cover photo is me at 1,000 temples, Respecting the culture wearing my Local Batik! Didn't want to give it back at the end!