A thousand years ago, as Viking hordes pillaged the shores of Europe, a powerful dynasty of Javanese kings was overseeing the construction of one of the world’s architectural wonders the giant Buddhist temple of Borobudur near Yogyakarta.
For centuries, the fable south eastern island lured pilgrims, traders, adventurers and fortune seekers, who returned to their homelands with tales of strange customs, fabulous beasts and boundless wealth.
Marco Polo, who passed through region at the end of the 13th century reported that Java was “the biggest island in the world” and that the wealth contained the there was ‘ beyond all computation’ . While his estimations of the size of the island turned out to be incorrect, his second observation might not have been exaggeration.
Today, with modern methods of transport and communication, visitors to Indonesia can discover for themselves the wealth contained there in the forms of history, tradition, culture, adventure, as well as sheer natural beauty.
This blog offer the visitor a glimpse of just two of Indonesia’s 33 provinces : Central Java, an ancient land of towering volcanos and swift-flowing river, and Yogyakarta, the ‘Culture Garden of Java’ .
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