Got up at 5:30am and hired a car to take us to Borobudur temple, the largest in Indonesia! Managed to get in an hour of zzzzzz's on Annie's shoulder and she only took 27.9 photos! :| Paid 70,000.00 each altogether to hire the car and driver all day! Not bad!

Got to temple and things didn't go so well! Ate at a stall outside where the Mie Goreng tasted like microwaved, stodgy noodles, I think because it was!

And another $20 for us tourists to get in! This is ridiculous! These bricks better be Gold plated sapphires with ruby finishings or I'm getting my money back!

It was beautiful though, the carvings were really well detailed and the whole thing is well preserved. All of the levels that we walked around on the Trek up to the top tell a story, and include dragons and goddesses statues, no markings of me though ;)

My cover photo is me almost near the top again, wearing my mandatory cloth which surprisingly, the locals don't have to wear!?!

We then had all afternoon to see more sights so left to go to Merapi volcano which only erupted 2 years ago! I'm determined to see an eruption this time so I'm gonna try throwing annie in, it will deffo spit her back out when she starts talking! ;)

Alex said, It was either go to the beach to swim in a tsunami or go to a volcano to climb into an eruption! We chose the latter and saw a bunch of rocks!

We tried Salak fruit or Snakeskin fruit which is a really sweet sickly fruit that forms inside a skin that actually looks and feels just like a snake! They also sold flowers that never did here! Can't remember the name now but there dried, brightly coloured grass plants that have no roots, need no water and apparently never die! Weird!

Up the volcano it's all black volcanic sand and it's such a bumpy ride to get to the top! We bumped into a couple we saw at the Temple and we hired a 4x4 with them up to the top!

Theres a few really cool sights we stopped off on the way for, a winding valley and a dried out dam! Amazing to see up close, but looks like a bunch of rocks on photos!

The best part about the tour was on the way back down we stopped at an old local ladies house. She must have been in her late 80's! It's the only building on the volcano and its the remains of her home after the eruption, which she attends too, everyday opening it as a museum for people to have a look around!

Everything is burnt to a crisp and she's been round and collected everyday items that have melted in the magma and re-salvaged them around her home! It's amazing to see, All her cutlery pieces had melted into each other to form a ball of silver. All her furniture was burnt down to wooden carcasses and shed found bones and burnt clothes From the surrounded area to display too!

As its such an dangerous, active Volcano, that will blow again - the government have banished her from living on this unsafe sight any longer! It's so sad that she's held onto everything though and she still visits it everyday! People that come to see it always slide her some money to help rebuild her home back on land too! She's the most cutest, wrinkly, old, frail, toothless granny I've ever met, like Rose Dawson at the end of Titanic!

We took the truck back on land and got the taxi for two hours to the beach, our final stop! Passed loads of t-shirts with the name Mbah Marian, the caretaker that died whilst maintaining this volcano! It's so sad his poor old face is plastered everywhere and he used to look like such a happy man! RIP! :(

This part of Java is so lush! Green palm trees and coconut trees everywhere and there's hundreds of ponds constructed in the villages where locals breed catfish as their food source! I want to stay somewhere like this and catch and cook my own food! Maybe next time though!

Had dinner at the beach...

Fried chickenisha and rice! Wiv hands? Yo, b**** please... Hand me that knife and fowk yo!

This is how Annie talks to me now! :/

Walked on beach for 15 minutes, over sunset! It's grey/black volcanic sand here so it looks dull from far away but up close, it glistens in the light!

Took an hour back to our hotel to shower get ready and go out shopping in Malioboro street! Lots of batiks, local patterned clothes, cloths, instruments, handicrafts, ornaments and just about every imaginable object that you could construct from wood! It's cute that it's so ethnic, I'm fascinated looking through all the weird finds but, i really have no space for anything like this in my home!

Bought 5 mini perfume sets for 30p each! Now il smell beaut 24/7 when I'm at work or in a club! Done! I should have bought like 50! That would have been Christmas sorted!

We then sat on the floor in a street hawker stall with half of Asia sat watching us eat! They like to see me and annie cupping food with our hands, I'm used to it now, it doesn't bother me and we had crab and fish, so always best to get stuck in, there's no time for chopsticks!