SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2017 (BOROBUDUR/YOGYAKARTA) - I've never felt further away from home than I did today at the Borobudur and Pramanan temples. It was five hours away from Purwokerto, plus another eight from Jakarta. There are no quick ways out of here! It was a cool experience. Here's a map to help you visualize where we went: the star just south of Magelang (Borobudur) and the star just west of Klaten (Pramanan). Borobudur, Indonesia's largest tourist attraction, was a Buddhist temple that was built in the 9th century and abandoned in the 14th century as much of Indonesia converted to Islam. Then later it was off to Pramanan, a Hindu temple constructed in the 9th century. After this one, I was very hungry. Because of my choice of hotel the night before, there wasn't exactly a buffet breakfast waiting for me. The only thing I had eaten the whole day was some milk cookies and an orange drink. That, and I wanted Western food- so bad! Luckily enough, we found a McDonalds on the way home, and it was the best Mickey D's run I've ever had! Big Mac meal, large fries, and 2 banana top cones- yeah I pigged out! The "banana top" cones were vanilla cones with banana coating to coincide with the new Despicable Me movie. There's also popcorn and a banana McFlurry if you want it! Haha.
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