My Trip to Jogjakarta

Hello guys. Sorry for not posting this on time that I've promised. I'm too lazy to open my laptop lately. But anyway, now I'm gonna post my trip to Jogjakarta. Wow, have you ever heard about this beautiful city? The trip was great because I went with my family. Our main aim to go to Jogjakarta is to accompany me to register and do the enterance test into my future college, which is located there. And then, we went for a fun trip! I was so happy! ^^

Anyway, Jogjakarta is located near the Central Java, meanwhile my hometown is in Sidoarjo, East Java. My family and I went to Jogjakarta on Thursday (May 2nd) and we went back home to Sidoarjo on Saturday (May 4th). We went there by our car. The journey was quite long because of the far location (but not really, tho). We went from Sidoarjo at around 9-10 a.m and we arrived to Jogja at around 7-8 p.m. It was really tiring for always sitting in the car! >__<

this is my sister, on the way to Jogja

on the way~~ I forgot what place is this xDD

After we arrived at Jogja, we checked in to the hotel as soon as possible, because we were sooooo tired! (but I still had time to log in and play Pockie Ninja! xD)

The next day (May 3rd), my family and I went to MMTC (Multimedia Training Center University)--my next college! There, I did an interview test with the teacher there. In this college, I'm gonna take the Production Management study--which is I'll become a TV crew (I hope! xD) And you guys, the results have been announced (on May 7th) and my name's on it! I'm so happy!

After I took the test, we're going to have a lunch. Just info for you, guys, if you visit Jogja, you have to taste gudeg! Gudeg is sooooo delicious, it contains boiled egg, chicken, and the gudeg itself. This is the pic of it:

Gudeg! Yum! pic cr: kitabmasakan.com

And after that, we went to look around Jogjakarta until afternoon--or probably evening. Jogjakarta is really a great city. There are so many good places to visit, and the traditions are also still going until now. I'm happy that I will continue my study in this city.

Jogjakarta is also a city with so many good and friendly people. People in Jogja usually use pedicab (we usually call it with becak) for going anywhere. Except its cheap price, using pedicab or becak is also decrease the air pollution. This is my pics of becak in Jogjakarta:

this is what I called by: becak! :D

me and my sister ride becak xD

Around 4 pm, We went to Malioboro--which is a shopping district for the tourists to buy some Jogja's merchandises. In Malioboro we can find so many interesting things about Jogja. In Malioboro you can find so many shops and sellers (without shop). If you like to bargain, you can buy things on the sellers. Remember, smile when you start to bargain. And if you bargain, I suggest you to cut the price off to 30%-50%.

this is the sign of Malioboro Street

this is the situation of Malioboro Street ^^

But if you don't want to or maybe you can't bargain (like me xD), you can buy things on the shops. My family and I visited Mirota shop--which is already famous with good things and the price isn't too expensive. You know that Jogja is famous with its batik, and batik itself also sold on this shop with so many variant. Not only batik, but you can find so many good and interesting stuffs like this :

Ah~~ there's so many interesting things that we can't find here in our hometown! Too many things to buy, but not enough money :v hahaaha~~~

After from Malioboro, we went back to the hotel and spent the night there. But before we slept, my sister, my father, and I played the card-game! hahaha, it was so much fun!

And the next day was the day we should leave Jogjakarta. Aah~ to be honest, I wasn't satisfied enough because Jogja has so many good places to visit..~ but then I remembered that I'll be spending 4 years living here in this beautiful city~

On our way home, we decided to buy another good food from Jogja called Bakpia~! Yum~ bakpia is really delicious. It's some kind of pastry which contains soft-bean and covered with the dough which is from flour. And then it's baked. If you come to Jogja, you have to taste it >_<

bakpia :3

Yup~ so that's it. We went back to home safely and we're gonna go back to Jogja on May 26th ^^

So, Jogjakarta,
See you soon....