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After an adventurous bike ride to the town near Borobudur, during which we totally forgot to take pictures but did remember to buy two bottles of beer to go, we relax back at our hotel. - IMG_20131129_014132555_HDR
Jungle, mountains. - IMG_20131129_015007415_HDR
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The cabana in the evening light. - IMG_20131129_025423627_HDR
Natural beauty! - IMG_20131129_185751728
We sit poolside and drink... more Bintang. - IMG_20131129_030809808_HDR
Bryan pointlessly prods his inert cellphone. - IMG_20131129_132306404_HDR
Cabana, 4:15am. Our wakeup call turned out to be totally unnecessary because of the 4am call to prayer. - IMG_3217
We've been rising early anyway because of jet lag, but holy god this was the best thing to wake up for ever. - IMG_20131129_135621283
The base of Borobudur, pre-dawn. - IMG_20131129_135859441_HDR
So, what follows will be approximately one million pictures taken as the sun rises over Borobudur, largest Buddhist temple in the world, as the sun rises over the mist-filled jungle valley in which it is nestled, while clouds assemble to provide additional majesty, and in general things are as amazing as they can probably ever be. - IMG_20131129_140005034_HDR
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Yep. These pointy things are called "stupas," and they are meditative metaphors for the body of the Buddha, which you walk around while pondering shit, just as you walk around the levels of Borobudur (always clockwise, always ascending from the east). - IMG_3218
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Leslie with the "nail of Java," the mountain that in legend god used to lock Java down after it previously was wandering around the ocean. - IMG_3222
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Leslie, stupa. - IMG_20131129_140415033_HDR
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Bryan, Leslie on stupa. - IMG_3230
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Bryan photographs glorious gloriousness. - IMG_20131129_140911484
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