// May 6th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Yogjakarta

It’s 7:00 Wednesday morning and it’s bloody cold. We are finally at Mount Bromo in eastern Java, it took us a whole day to make the trip we left at 9 am and arrived here at 9 pm last night…
Monday was a hell of a day, we got up at a descent time and the plan was to find our own way to Borobudor, the largest Buddhist temple in the world and a UNESCO world heritage site sitting 45kms outside of Yogjakarta.
What we didn’t want to do was just book a minibus to take us there at an inflated price so after a spot of breakfast at our cosy little home-stay La Javanese we went in search of a bus stop. On the way we got talking to a local chap who told us that just across the road was a lady-boy protest… WOW! (more…)