In March 2015, just like any other day I returned home from work and my wife said she wanted to discuss something after dinner. Initially I was like ok....what's up? Turns out she nominated me somehow to follow her friends on an open / back packing style trip to Dieng in Central Java. It was very weird when I heard "Dieng" because just that day I was checking out Dieng hashtag on Instagram.
Fast forward, our journey began leaving Jakarta on Friday night and it was raining very heavy. We literally spent 2-3 hours just stuck in front of the meeting point. When my wife explained to me about the trip, she told me it will take around 10 hours and I was ok with that. Now after reaching Bandung sometime around 2-3 AM when I checked the GPS, I realised the total journey is going to be around 15 hours plus. That was shocking as literally I can travel to Europe in that many hours and here we are doing just a few hundred kilometres (300 ish). Anyways after a back aching butt cracking 17.5 hours road trip we finally reached our destination.
It was just 1 day that we spent in Dieng and the weather was exactly what I had heard - COLD! It was just so nice, taking a cold shower (homestay didn't had water heater) and walk around the streets at night. We went to many places such as crater, did some hiking and visited some ancient temples. I might go there again, more for hiking and camping!!!! But next time, I'll take a flight to Yogya and go from there (only 4 hours from Yogya).
Because I took a lot of pictures, so I am going to divide my post into people first and then post about landscapes.
Fast forward, our journey began leaving Jakarta on Friday night and it was raining very heavy. We literally spent 2-3 hours just stuck in front of the meeting point. When my wife explained to me about the trip, she told me it will take around 10 hours and I was ok with that. Now after reaching Bandung sometime around 2-3 AM when I checked the GPS, I realised the total journey is going to be around 15 hours plus. That was shocking as literally I can travel to Europe in that many hours and here we are doing just a few hundred kilometres (300 ish). Anyways after a back aching butt cracking 17.5 hours road trip we finally reached our destination.
It was just 1 day that we spent in Dieng and the weather was exactly what I had heard - COLD! It was just so nice, taking a cold shower (homestay didn't had water heater) and walk around the streets at night. We went to many places such as crater, did some hiking and visited some ancient temples. I might go there again, more for hiking and camping!!!! But next time, I'll take a flight to Yogya and go from there (only 4 hours from Yogya).
Because I took a lot of pictures, so I am going to divide my post into people first and then post about landscapes.
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