Getting around Yogyakarta’s tropical heat can be tiring, just like here in the Philippines. The most convenient way in getting around Kota Jogja (dowtown area) would rather be a very similar solution to what Filipinos do in urban areas and villages—the becak (pronounced as be-chak). If Filipinos have the sidecar or de padyak or traysikad, Indonesians have the becak—and also ...
It was my second time going out of my home country, and of all places, I landed in a city so vibrant of its culture, that I have the inkling of going back and experiencing it once more—Yogyakarta. This city of three million (in its region) is known to be the gateway to the great ancient temples of Borobudur and ...
