Borabodor and Prambanan Ancient Buddhist Temples

Borabador is about 50 km from Jogyakarta. We just took enough gear for one night and biked out on a busy highway. We stopped a few kms past the main town for an ice cream and chatted to the shop owner asking if he could recommend a guesthouse. Turned out he was just finishing a room and said to give him half an hour and he would love us to be his first guests. So his dad and.him went to work carrying in a bed, couch, hot water machine, tv... and then the curtain men arrived and it was all done. Perfect for the night. His dad knocked on our door at 4.30 am on his way to the mosque to make sure we did not miss the sunrise. A lovely early morning visit to Borabador, a must see if anywhere near. I love the pictures (relief) depicting life years ago. This area was once a  Buddhist capital. After a big breakfast back at our homestay we headed back via the river rd, much more scenic but it bucketed down a few times so we had lots of shelter stops. The first stop was at a truck cleaning place so we cleaned our bikes with their high pressure hose. Then a cup of tea stop. Next was fried chicken from a street stall. We got a bit lost after that and went back to ask a lady we had been chatting to while we ate. She escorted us in the rain about 10 km through some back roads completely out of her way to get us to a main road.  We had purchased a ticket that included Prambanan temple which was about 65 km away back through the other side of Jogyakarta so once it fined up we had to ride fast through the busy city to get there in time. That was also nice, quite different, lots of smaller temples. It closed about 5 and then we had to get back to where we were staying. It got dark about 5.30 so it was a bit dodgy riding through the busy streets in the dark. The friends we were staying with were sure we had got lost but we arrived tired,bedraggled and after a shower enjoyed dinner and iced lemon tea from the food stall at the front of the house. A big day! We have ticked off all the places we had on our list before we left for Indonesia and many more,. except Sumatra, which we think deserves a whole trip on its own.