Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Photos of Yogyakarta

I’ll have to be honest with you, I didn’t think I was going to like Yogyakarta.  I had quickly grown tired of the crowds, garbage and rip-offs of Indonesia, and I just imagined a big urban center in the heart of the most populous island in the world would just exacerbate that sentiment.   However, not only did I like Yogyakarta, dare I say I really liked Yogyakarta.

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

The city is a near perfect blend between historical and modern.  

Well there are countless supermarkets, a nice network of roads, and all the other amenities of a modern regional capital, Yogyakarta also manages intertwine that classical Indonesia that every tourist dreams of capturing.  

The streets flow with a mixture of new-model cars and bicycle taxis driven by men with the typical Southeast Asian conical hat.  

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Little alleys known as gangs house boutique restaurants, cool hotels, but are completely void of the rush of scooter traffic elsewhere.  And most of all, there is a politeness to the people in the town know to locals as Jogja, that can only be characterized as sincere old-school respect.

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

To be honest, aside from heading to Borobudur, I didn’t even do all too much in Yogyakarta; I just kind of lived.  And maybe that’s really what I needed.  The city is the type of place that makes living quite easy.  As soon as we settled down into the gangs of Jogja, I instantly felt more at ease about everything.

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Anyways, the truth is I didn’t take my camera out for more than a little bit in Yogyakarta and then once to Borobudur.  I wanted to capture the street scenes and that meld between modern and tradition that is so neatly woven in this city.  I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I liked wandering around taking them.

Borobudur temple
Borobudur
Borobudur, Monk
Borobudur
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Yogyakarta, Indonesia