Day 2 - Adventure time!!

 

 

Travelling around Jogja yesterday was fun but it was pretty, darn, hot and humid! I enjoyed the morning walk to the main shopping street. There were horse and cart everywhere (some horses were a lot thinner than others :'( ), there were colourful French styled lampposts, and beggars approaching us as we walked along. There were also weird smells coming from underneath the foot paths. However, the city is very pretty when you excuse the poverty of the place, with green trees over the roads, reminding me of Grote Street in Adelaide.

When we (a group of 6 Aussie girls) got to Jalan Malioboro (the shopping road [see above]) everyone was a bit too keen to see us like we were money with legs! A local kindly told us that there were many pick-pocketers and we hugged our bags a little closer. 

We found a very western 4-5 story mall with a shop called ‘Hero’ very much like Woollies, with the slogan “The fresh food people!”. I bought a shower sponge and a pair of scissors there then we up a few levels to get a 30 minute back massage with a friend for $3!! It was even better than my Dad's massages dare I say it!!

 

At 2pm we were starving and stopped at a fairly busy place for lunch where they sold weird food! I regret getting my dish of brown-looking egg, and gelatinous jackfruit with rice. It makes me sick thinking about it.. it also makes me laugh that I actually ate it because I wanted to be adventurous... bad mistake! Anyway, that's when things started going down hill health-wise and I felt a migraine coming on. There was also a transvestite dancing over my friend who sat on the edge of the table. This man dressed as a women freaked us out and sung terribly and wouldn't leave until we gave him money. After lunch we decided to jump on a Indonesian styled tuk-tuk and a man rode us back to our hotel for $2.50 each. I wonder if I'll be able to get a cheaper price when my Indonesian improves and I'm not perceived as a tourist!

Once I arrived back at the hotel I felt fairly sick and went straight to my room, drank some water checked fb and went to bed.