hello
I guess this is where they want me to stand
how much?
100,000 Indonesian rupiah
so it's about seven dollars if you want to ride on the carriage there
I think we can walk, I think we're gonna go this way
hello there from Borobudur temple. the world's largest Buddhist temple in the world
had to come to check that out, can't miss that
we're not in Yogyakarta anymore though, we're in a place called, help me out
we're in Magelang. drove out of the area of Jogjakarta, we rented a driver to take us around to four
or five different places today. and so the first place we had to stop by is the Borobudur temple
so, I had to pay 350,000 to get into this place if you're Indonesian you only have to pay 50,000
I'm gonna go ahead and get my complaining out of the way early in this video
so yeah they make the foreigners pay seven times the normal price
i guess that's their way of getting uh reparations for all the
for all the hundreds of years that foreigners and outsiders have colonized and stolen from their land.
that's how they make their money back (joke) but there it is, Borobudur
and unfortunately because of corona we can't even like walk all the way up it.
but again we hired a driver we're here we're gonna see it no matter how much it costs.
there she is the largest Buddhist temple in the world
we picked a great day to come to check it out too
okay let's walk around it
yeah this place is pretty dang impressive even if it is cloudy and rainy today
but this place actually has a really interesting story
I've talked a lot about how the dutch colonized dutch east indies for 300 years on my channel
I explained a little bit how the Japanese were here for three years
but one thing that kind of gets over overlooked a little bit
was a short period of time when the British were here, and they were here from like 1811 to 1814
and it was there in that time when this place was rediscovered so to speak.
This Buddist temple, for hundreds of years, laid abandoned, can you imagine? that like right now it's in
this beautiful park, surrounded by beautiful trees and walkways and gardens and you know it's nice
but somewhere around a thousand a.d, they just abandoned it apparently there was
uh the power struggle the kingdoms here in Indonesia. they decided to move to east java
there was a huge eruption a huge volcano and this was covered in ash, the jungle growth kind took it over,
and well this massive temple for hundreds of years was abandoned.
that just blows my mind, but it wasn't until the British came and they sent out an expedition, they heard about
temples that were hidden somewhere in central java and they came here and they found this
unfortunately a lot of the archaeologists, they came here
and they looted it and they stole from it and you know a lot of the buddhas and
everything up there they're missing their heads i'm not sure when unesco
later on made it into a world heritage site but now as you can see
it's in good condition, but unfortunately, we can't go up to the top and we can't see it up close
so we'll just have to continue walking around on this muddy ass path
but I would say that's kind of a huge fail
i mean the dutch were here for 300 years and they didn't know about this place
isn't that kind of embarrassing, the dutch were here for 300 years and they didn't know about this place
like come on, I guess they were here for about two 200 years before but
let's just walk around let's just walk around
I think obviously like the local people that lived around here they obviously knew about it
but i don't think they knew the history behind it who built it why it was here
because around the 1600s that's when the religion changed from i guess buddhist
to islam and this is the buddhist temple and so i don't know i don't know
well, there you have it the largest Buddhist temple in the world was it worth it? i don't know about that
I mean if you're a local if you're an Indonesian if you want to come here
sure spend 50,000 which is, I don't know like $3.50. you can explore this place it's beautiful
but uh if you're unfortunate like I am and you have to pay 350,000 rupiah which is 25 dollars
that's a pretty expensive outing, especially for Indonesia, you know especially when you in here
here all the carriages and there's people with like golf carts that will drive you around
all that cost money. and there was one, I almost had an opportunity I thought
to lower the price actually, when we first got here we were waiting and it was raining
so we were just kind of waiting in the pavilion and i saw they were trying to make this film
they had this guy filming this other guy like going into the place and
they came up to me and asked me if I wouldn't mind being a part of it and so
I was just like well if you give me a discount and lower the price and sure, so he's like okay okay so
he stepped away real quick he got on the phone and I guess the answer was no because
he just left, he just uh didn't come back, and so I don't know. If you want me to be a part of your film,
I'm not going to work for free, especially when you're charging 25 dollars here
anyways, uh I just walked past the exit it's right over here so let's get on out of here
but again okay it's expensive but if you look around here the upkeep
the landscaping is awesome it's great again here
but you got to pay for everything you want to use the restroom that's 2,000
if you want an umbrella that's 10,000. if you want to ride this.. how much?
uh one percent, one person uh
so if you want to ride that, that's 50,000, (about $3.50)
money money money
and the last thing is probably not worth it to visit
during this pandemic, because you can't even go up there to the top
on the sides of the temple, there are tons of carvings and
they're supposed to tell a Buddhist story and I was hoping we get a closer look at that when you
go up there you can actually get a closer look at all the buddhas there are hundreds of buddhas up there.
but unfortunately, couldn't go up there and then when you come right out of the place
souvenir shops
you got some Jogja shirts
nice.
one shirt how much? fifty thousand. fifty thousand for one shirt
fifty thousand only one thank you very much
special for you, 3 for 100,000
we were walking around this neighborhood last night
and there were shops that were selling those exact shirts, seven for a hundred thousand
and he just wanted to sell me one shirt for 50,000, I don't think so
thank you very much though
did you hear how much he was trying to sell me that shirt for?
and that place we were at last night, seven for a 100. those are the exact same shirts I mean I get it
they see me and they're like, money, let's take it from them
and it's like they kick you out of this place
they kick you out of this place and help keep out here nope
you're already out of our place they'll give a [ __ ] about the place out here
right and the exit is just yeah it's a maze trying to get out of this place
but you can see a lot of these shops are closed up still because of the pandemic
Apparently, Borobudur is the number one tourist attraction in all of Indonesia and I don't know you could kind of see,
looking around there and in the background of my video, there's not a whole lot of people here
you know and I don't know if that's the reason why they charge 350,000 to try to you know get back some of that money
I don't know, let me know when you came here if you're a bule if you're a foreigner
how much did you have to pay? I'm curious if it's always been 350,000. I don't know let me know
You got some sandals. I can't believe this is the exit
right? you can't walk out the front door
they just like kick you out on the side of the side of the temple
and make you walk through you know here, which is fine but it's all tarped up
you would think they would let you walk out the front door where we walked in. i know
listen to me, i'm just i'm just complaining. I'm being difficult here, hello you got lots of t-shirts
how much for one? one for 30,000
that's not a bad price, I'll think about it, thank you though, thank you sir. I don't have any small bills
it was funny I turned the corner there and he picked up his guitar and started playing. looks nice no thank you though
no thank you. i don't know how that would fit in my suitcase
thank you no thank you
yes, no thank you, no thank you. an English book
oh that's nice but I don't need it though, thank you though, thank you so much
oh that's cool
2 for 250,000 (around $17)
that's ok, no thank you, no thank you,
no thank you, why not?
because I don't need it
have a nice day
no thank you see this is what i wanted to show you like up there
at the top of Borobudur, they have these uh I don't know what they're called
I read they are called niches or something but inside they have the buddhas, thank you very much
no thank you, oh i get the local price for this not for the ticket
not for the ticket no thank you sir thank you so much though
no thank you
and again you can just see how bad they're hurting for tourism here
it's tough like look at this you can't even like even if you wanted to look around you can't
you know because somebody is always going to be in your face trying to get you to buy something
you know, no thank you, no thank you, so even like if you wanted to just casually look around
and you can't you know, they make it impossible, oh my goodness, and then there are tons of people out here