Pronunciation
-Borobudur.
-Baro-babadu-badu-badu-bada.
-[laughs]
You're the worst with languages, aren't you?
-Bara-budu-badu-badu-badur.
-Borobudur.
-Barababadur. -[laughs]
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Filmed before the lockdown
Good morning from Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
I'm Renata.
I create travel videos here on YouTube and I'm a journalist.
So come along.
Yogyakarta is very famous for the ancient temples
that they have around the city.
So, this is what you're gonna see in today's video.
But first, breakfast.
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They give you free water as you come in.
-Barababadur.
Welcome to the single-most visited attraction in Indonesia.
This is Borobudur.
Also, the largest Buddhist temple in the entire world.
Gordon, it's not candy, okay?
This means temple.
Borobudur is located about an hour and a half
from Yogyakarta.
There's a bus you can take from the city to come here.
We hired a driver to stay with us for the whole day.
because we also want to visit other out-of-town attractions.
This place is huge.
I thought you'd just get in and see the temple
like other temples that we visited,
but, no, there's this huge park here.
It's really beautiful.
Oh, wow.
This is massive. Look at that.
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'Boro' means monastery, and 'budur', hill
So, temple on a hill.
What does it mean? Not allowed to speak?
-Shh.
-Yeah, let's be quiet.
See, there's dress code,
no heels,
cannot sit,
no gums.
-Let's go find that candy that's hidden in there.
The candy is hidden.
-You're still dreaming about it. -It's hidden.
I'm gonna find it.
I'm gonna find the candy in Baba-badu-badu.
When you look from the top, you can see that this place
is in the shape of a traditional Buddhist Mandala
which is a square with four entry points
and a circular center point.
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Every single wall is fully decorated like this.
So many details.
It's very, very impressive.
And you can touch it.
But I guess I shouldn't
This place is full of tourists.
But it is so big that you find a lot of spaces like this.
Totally empty.
-Yeah, Crocodile Dundee.
-[laughs]
That's a good one.
I'll start calling him Crocodile Dundee now.
[laughs]
-So, have a nice day.
-You too. Bye.
-Crocodile Dundee.
The lady looked at him and said, "You look like Crocodile Dundee."
[laughs]
-No, she said you look like someone.
I told her who I looked like
-Oh.
-I had to let her know.
[laughs]
Be careful, it could happen to you.
-Lose my head?
-Yes.
-Borobudur was built in the 8th century, but it was abandoned right after that
as the center of power moved to East Java.
No one knows exactly why,
but it's speculated that there was a massive volcanic eruption here,
and people just wanted to get away.
Then, after, Borobudur was abandoned and hidden for centuries
until the 1800s.
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Amazing how you walk all over here and you don't see anyone.
I think everyone just rushes to get up,
instead of admiring the bottom parts.
It is very beautiful.
In the superior parts, you see the stupas like this.
And each one here has a Buddha inside.
There are 504 Buddha statues here.
They have their hands in different positions.
There's even a guide here explaining what each one means.
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Oh! There's one open here
We're surrounded by volcanoes here, too.
There's one right here.
Another over there.
You can barely see because of the haze.
Wow. We're that close.
-It's going to explode
It's going to explode on us.
Run!
This volcano here is Mount Merapi,
the most active volcano in entire Indonesia.
Here at the top, this is the main part.
This central sphere right here represents Nirvana.
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Oh, yeah, sure.
-Thank you.
Pictures.
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This is also a very popular destination for the sunrise.
A lot of people come here.
Actually, I read online that it gets really, really crowded,
so I preferred to come here in the morning
and have a little bit more space.
And it actually worked.
Also, with the sunrise, it's that thing
You never know exactly what you're going to expect, right?
For today, the forecast was for a sunny, beautiful day
from 9:00 a.m. on.
The sunrise was supposed to be cloudy.
So I preferred not even to risk.
-Hello. -Hello, hello.
I think we got here at a perfect time, 9:30 in the morning.
Not crowded at all.
Look at the size of this temple
This is one single structure
So impressive
It's like a fully decorated pyramid
Wow!
-Hello. [My turn to ask for pictures]
[in Indonesian]
[laughing]
-Terima kasih (thank you).
-Thank you.
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We have so many choices now of different places,
different temples to go.
We decided visiting the second most popular one
here in the Yogyakarta area.
-Badu-badu-badu-badu.
In the end, you think it's going to be an easy walk out.
-Oh. -You have to go through...
-It's a mile -Yeah.
-A mile, yeah
It's like hundreds of shops here.
It's a maze.
-Renata, the shopping lane goes all the way to Jakarta.
[laughs]
To Jakarta, I wouldn't say,
but to Yogyakarta, maybe.
-No, I mean, we're almost in Jakarta.
We're that close
We got our tickets online.
You just show like this on your phone.
Easy, but it was not even necessary because there was no line.
And for foreigners, it is expensive, US$25.
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So, you have domestic entrance right here
and foreign over there.
Price is different, of course.
-Can we pay with a credit card? -Yes.
-Okay. American Express?
-Visa or Mastercard only -Okay. Terima kasih (thank you).
-Sama-sama (you're welcome)
-You can get a welcome drink here, too.
-You come here, this is Prambanan.
In one location, you got four temples.
-Okay.
Prambanan, Bubrah, Lumbung, and then Sewu Temple.
-Wow. -Three temples, Buddhist temples.
The Prambanan is this, Hindu temple.
This is Hindu, these are all Buddhist.
-Oh, these are... All three are Buddhist temples?
-Yeah, Buddhist.
-These are three major gods for the Hindus -Uh-huh.
-Brahma, Shiva, and then, Vishnu
We're now in Prambanan, another major temple complex.
But this one is Hindu. Interesting
But we made a major mistake coming here.
I'm going to tell you all about it in the next video.
Whoah.
These stones move sometimes.
[laughs]
The candy?
No candy.
♪ I went to Borobudu-budu- budu-budu-badu-dibida ♪
♪ Then I end up in Jakarta ♪
-[laughs]
♪ Jakarta the easy way... through Borobudu-budu-budu ♪