Continued from The sprawling shopping complex that is KLIA 2.
After some two and a half-hour on flight we arrived at the Jogjakarta airport at almost dusk. After checking in at a nearby lodging house and refreshing ourselves we took a cab some 9 km to Jogja city centre.
We went to a street called Jalan Malioboro (not Marlboro ya) and started to have dinner. It is a famous tourist haunt.
The street is about 1.3 km long. You can find plenty of horse-carts lining up waiting for tourists and we decided to take one.
The cart made a round-trip down the street before returning to the exact spot where we started via and almost adjacent road.
Then we decided to walk.
All along the atmosphere is very festive with a lot of street activities. This picture shows some street performers playing drums. Sorry, it tilted sideways upon loading and I can't do much about it...
Plenty of wares were also sold along the way. Oh, we were heading to a certain special place down south.
By the way this is my second time in Jogja. But the first time I was here middle of 2012, I went straight to the southern parts of Jalan Malioboro. Look at the old article Festive night at Jogja....
Then we came across a traditional theatre, the Wayang Kulit or shadow play.
We spent some time there before proceeding further south to an area called the Keraton, the old palace area and decided to stop by the main mosque, also the royal mosque.
Next we spent some time just outside the palace. For the record Jogjakarta still has a Sultan, the traditional ruler. But modern times has seen his powers limited to mostly ceremonial functions. It's just the fact that the Sultan is also governor of the special district of Jogja which makes him more relevant compared to some other ceremonial rulers...
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