Good beautiful morning to you I hope you are having a wonderful day
Oh Now Near Borobudur, about 15 minutes drive
away on the bike is a place called or nicknamed the "chicken church" which is
where I'm taking you next what is the chicken church you ask?
Well let me walk up the hill it's about 300 meters uphill from where we parked
the bike, let me show you the chicken church, look at the view
and tell you the story.
Okay, I'll buy a ticket - How much is the the ticket?
-Thirty Thousand
Here's the Jeep's, 7000 each way and then you just climb in the back there,
there's another one here
so if
you wanna cheat a little bit you can or if you're elderly or infirm or
smoke too much and can't breathe
you can get a trip up in those
7,000 It'll just be
a couple minutes up the hill It only took me three minutes to walk it wand we
head to the church.
Lady here selling drink
again juices, waters, fresh coconuts
Rumah Doa Bukit Rhema, locally nicknamed the chicken church is a humble
house of prayer but welcomes all religions from any nation everywhere to
pray in unity in the chicken actually it's not a chicken it was built, designed
as a pigeon to symbolize love and peace it's just unfortunately the crown on the head
gave it that unfortunate nickname, but it was the idea of a local guy
an Indonesian guy, who one night had a strong vision and in this vision he saw
this beautiful valley, this lovely lush landscape a location where he felt that
all religions and nations of any kind should be able to come together and pray
in unity now about a year later he was travelling through this area and he came
around the corner, this was in the 80s, and he saw this location and he recognized
it from his vision and he chose this place to build this church on top of
this hill
so now inside there is various rooms
where there's private prayer rooms, group prayer rooms, but the idea is anybody
from everywhere can come in here and pray and as a bonus
there's also amazing views of the countryside around here
Borobudur is just over there
Mount Merapi is behind there, another
volcano over there and beautiful beautiful landscape all around so if
you're in Borobudur area it's a 15 minute from Borobudur, you pay I think
three thousands for parking, thirty thousand as a foreigner or twenty
thousand as an Indonesian to come up here have a wander around you can go all
the way up into the crown and get views over the countryside, make a prayer
inside there's also a wish wall or prayer wall and there's pens and papers
provided, whatever you wish for desire you write down with a bit of paper put it on
the prayer board and see if it comes true
Well after coming unsuccessfully a few days ago, trying to get in here it
was closed it looks like it could be open so let's go and get coffee.
Klinik Koppi is not really a coffee shop
it is more clinic for coffee, you go in
one at a time, you have different Javanese coffees explained to you
then they filter it, pour it, and you enjoy it
so it's it's not that
like it's not a fast food or a fast coffee place, it's for people who've
got a refined taste of coffee,
which I don't,
I do enjoy coffee but refined taste? that is not what I would say
so what you do is when you come in if you go into the little
counter on the left you take a number and you sit in the seating area with
your shoes off and wait until your number's called,
then when you number is called in everybody's
greeted personally, and then explained about the different coffees are offered
you choose which coffee you want and there's no additives, just coffee no sugar no
milk, no creamer, just pure coffee
so let's go and see what it's like.
okay Peter if you are ever traveling in Java pop in here and get some real
locally roasted coffee for your morning fix
I was going to buy a packet and send
it to you but I've no idea what your address is, so maybe next time.
Okay coffeed up
back on those Java roads