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Slow-cooked duck with green sauce for lunch. Yum!
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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.
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Jungle, mountains.
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The cabana in the evening light.
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Natural beauty!
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Denpasar to Yogyakarta was a paltry 1:20 in the air. Nothing after our epic journey west.
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Bryan pointlessly prods his inert cellphone.
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We hopped a cab immediately out to Borobudur, 40km or so outside of Yogakarta.
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Leslie tromps up through Plataran Borobudur with our concierge.
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Cabana, 4:15am. Our wakeup call turned out to be totally unnecessary because of the 4am call to prayer.
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The cafe overlooks Borobudur, the largest Buddhist temple in the world. It's still kinda far, though, that wee thing on the horizon.
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The base of Borobudur, pre-dawn.
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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.
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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).
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A grab bag of Indonesian treats as well, none of which I remember the name of except beef rendang.
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Lots of picture taking going down.
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Leslie poses among the throng.
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Best picture Bryan has ever taken. Thanks, Borobudur!