Amazing Trip to Jogja

Last Saturday (19/07), I had the great moment with all of my friends. Both
immersion class grade 2 went to Jogjakarta. The destination are Prambanan Temple,
Parangtitis beach, and of course Malioboro street. We leaved from school about 07.00
am and accompained with 3 teachers consist of Mr. Bowo, Mr. Mufid, and Mr.
Herdjanto.

First, we went to Prambanan Temple. Started at 07.00 am, our bus arrived at
10.45 am. There were so many foreigners from different country that spend their
holiday in Indonesia. As I knew, they were from China, Thaialand, England, and
Norwegia. Prambanan temple was very amazing and beutiful because we found
beutiful relief that had the story of the temple.

There is a legend that Javanese people always tell if you come to Central Java.
As the story tells, there was a man named Bandung Bondowoso who loved Roro
Jonggrang. To refuse his love, Jonggrang asked Bondowoso to make her a temple
with 1,000 statues only in one-night time. The request was nearly fulfilled when
Jonggrang asked the villagers to pound rice and to set a fire in order to look like
morning had broken. Feeling to be cheated, Bondowoso who only completed 999
statues cursed Jonggrang to be the thousand statue.

Prambanan temple has three main temples in the primary yard, namely
Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva temples. Those three temples are symbols of Trimurti in
Hindu belief. All of them face to the east. Each main temple has accompanying
temple facing to the west, namely Nandini for Shiva, Angsa for Brahma, and Garuda
for Vishnu. Besides, there are 2 flank temples, 4 kelir temples and 4 corner temples.
In the second area, there are 224 temples.

Entering Shiva temple, the highest temple and is located in the middle. One
main room contains Shiva statue, while the other three rooms contain the statues of
Durga (Shiva's wife), Agastya (Shiva's teacher), and Ganesha (Shiva's son). Durga
statue is said to be the statue of Roro Jonggrang in the above legend. In Vishnu
temple, to the north of Shiva temple, you will find only one room with Vishnu statue
in it. In Brahma temple, to the south of Shiva temple, you find only room as well with
Brahma statue in it.Quite attractive accompanying temple is Garuda temple that is
located close to Vishnu temple. That a little about Prambanan Temple I thought.

In fact, the second destination was Gembiraloka zoo, but we changed it with
Parangtitis beach. We spend 2 hours in there. It was a nice windy beach. I with my
friends enjoyed to got some pictures on there.

The naming of the beach has its own history. Hundreds years ago, someone
named Dipokusumo, who was a fugitive of Majapahit Kingdom, came to this area to
meditate. When he saw water dripping from the crack of the coral reef, he named this
area 'parangtritis', originating from the word parang (stone) and tumaritis (water
drops). The beach close to the area was then named the same.
 The next destination visited in the center of ‘ Bakpia 25’ the traditional meals
from Jogja. Some of us buy a lot of Bakpia to give her family in home. A lot of people
said that ‘Bakpia 25’ is the originally Bakpia that they make with they self as known
as home industry.

The last destination, we were dropped on Malioboro street. The street is the
centre of Yogyakarta's largest tourist district; many hotels and restaurants are located
nearby. Sidewalks on both sides of the street are crowded with small stalls selling a
variety of goods. In the evening several open-air streetside restaurants, called lesehan,
operate along the street. In corner of Malioboro and Tugu station we watched
tradisional perfomance.

After we had finished our shopping and watched tardisional perfomance we

felt so tired, we decided to take a rest in one place to get some meals around. There
was many small shop that sold a lot of meals. It was some kind of dillema that we
choose to “sate” and drinking ice tea.

At last, we went home at 07.30pm. We were happy to spend a day in

Yogyakarta with all of my friends both imersion class grade 12.

Arga Brahmantyo
XII PSIA 2/05