I went to Jogjakarta on the New Years Holiday Holiday last year. I went to Jogjakarta with my familie. They were my mother, my father, and my younger sister. We went to Jogjakarta to visit my older sister. My older sister named is Ratna and my younger sister named is Pipi. Ratna studied at Gadjah Mada University specifically at medical faculty. She want to be a doctor. On Saturday noon, we went to Jogjakarta Jo gjakarta by a bus from Bukittinggi. I tought it would be a long and tiring trip if we go by a bus. But it didn’t, because the bus were very big, with air conditioner and the chair had a big space. It took four days to get Jogjakarta. On Tuesday night, we finally reach Jogjakarta. The bus stoped at “Tugu Bus Station” at 10.00 pm. The station was very big and clean. The officer were so nice. And the thing that surprised surprised me was all the Officer were wearing “Batik”. Batik is the traditional fabric from Java. It has ancient and very beautiful pattern. pattern. And then, we collected collected our stuff and brought it to the front of the bus station. My father searched a transportation to my sister lodge. My sister lodge were next to Gadjah Mada university or it placed named “Kampund Sendowo”. We took taxi to get my sister Lodge. Finally, we got my sister Lodge and I felt asleep until morning. On the next day, my mother and father were looking for a hotel room for them to stay. While, me and my younger sister stayed at Ratna ’s Lodge. Because my sister still had class for two days, we delayed our vacation until two days later. On those two days, we were walking around the “Kampung Sendowo” and Gadjah Mada University. I ate many kinds of food there, and there there were many food courts there. there. The taste was good and it was cheap. Two days later we began our vacation, my father rented a car, he rented a car to take us to travel around Jogja. Because it was our first day for vacation, we prepared so many things. Mom packed our clothes and made some snacks like “Bakwan” and “Kerupuk”. We went out at 09.00. because we have not planned about our destination, we planned that on the car. And we decided to go Candi Borobodur. It took about an hour to reach Candi Borobudur. And as we know, Candi Borobudur is one of the seven wonder in the world. We arrived there at 10.30 am. My mother bought the tickets for us while me and others wait in the car. The ticket costs about Rp30000 for adult and Rp15000 for kids under twelve years old. The parking area was far from the gate, so we have to walked to the gate. And it took about 10 minutes. Arrived at the gate, we saw there were two parts of gate, the first one was the International gate and the second one was for the domestic. So we choosed the second gate because we were domestics. before we walked in, the officer checked our bags and things, and the rule did not let us to brought food inside. And there was a unique tradition here, we have to wear a piece of fabric which was made from “Batik” on our waist. It made me proud because wearing Batik means introducing Indonesian culture to the foreigner.
Finally we enter the place, close to the gate i saw some people gathered around. I felt curious and took a look, i found some people was taking pictures with a statue. And the statue was a human. It was unique, so we took some pictures with them. It was a sunny day, luckily there were many people provided umbrella to be rented. So, my father rented an Umbrella for him, because all of us alreadt wear a hat. Borobudur temple located on a hill, so we have to walked there. On the way to Borobudur temple, I saw all the area were really clean. The area also full of foreigner. Finally, we reached the temple, and it was great. We took some pictures in front of the temple. The temple was so big, and it took time to walked around. After two hours walked around, we went back and found few museums there, we visited those museums. It was already 15.00, so we planned to go to Parangtritis beach. On the way to Parangtritis, we just realized we have not eat yet, so we decided to had a lunch, we ate in a “Pondok”. After having lunch, we continued our vacation to Parangtritis, on the way to Parangtritis the weather were gloomy. Arrived at Parangtritis, the beach was crowded. There were a concert there because people wanted to celebrate new year at the beach. It was too crowded and we decided to went back home because it was already 17.00. we went back home and took a rest, we arrived home at 20.00. because there would be a celebration for new year, we went to Alun-Alun to watched the firework at 23.00. We celebrated our new year together in Jogjakarta. Tomorrow morning, we planned to go to Solo because My mother and my father wanted to look for Batik. It took about three hours to reach Solo, on the way there, we past a few beautiful places, Prambanan Temple, and others. Arrived at Solo, we prayed in the oldest mosque there. after praying, we continued our vacation and went to Pasar Klewer to bought some Batik. We went to Pasar Klewer by Becak because we parked our car in the mosque park areal. Because we were foreigner , we asked to the “Tukang Becak” where the best place to bought Batik, and he delivered us to a shop which provide the best quality with the friendly price. I was shocked because the owner of the shop came from Padang. My mother and my father had a conversation with the owner while choosing Batik. We bought some Batik and went back home because it was already night. On the next day, we stayed home because we felt tired after spending days visiting many places, besides my sister had to go to her campus tomorrow. On the last a few days, we just hanged around the “Malioboro” Malioboro”, “Alun-Alun” Alun-Alun”, Zoo and “Taman Pintar”. Pintar”. We had a lot of fun there. After two weeks spending holiday in Jogja, we went home. My sister cried because we have to go back home. But she felt happy because we already spent our new year togheter. We went to Jakarta by Bus and went to Padang by airplane. I felt tired but satisfied because i can met my sister after a long time.
