good morning guys it is a very chaotic morning here at gambier station this is like the main
central train station in jakarta but i am very excited for today's adventures because we will
be taking an executive class train which is kind of the highest level from my understanding of a
really beautiful train all the way from jakarta to yogica with the other trains it's usually about an
eight eight and a half hour journey but if you take these like fancier executive trains it cuts
the travel time down to six and a half hours and with the economy trains from my understanding they
are at a station kind of outside the city so just the traffic alone would probably take you
a minimum of 20 to 30 minutes so for those two reasons that's why i decided to go from gambier
where the expensive trains go from and to just see like what their higher end trains are like
i'm obviously a very big fan of high-speed trains like the shinkansen in tokyo so even though that's
not you know exactly what i'm expecting here it will be interesting to see what the quality of
trains is like so join me for this adventure and hopefully i do have everything i need because with
these coved rules my understanding was if you have a booster you don't need like any kind of pcr test
or rapid antigen to go on trains or planes if you did only have two shots you would have to get that
every single time before you go so i think i'm right in my understanding but i got to
the train station a lot earlier just in case i need some kind of test at the last moment
all right so i am at the platform i did get here early but it's better to be early than late
for anybody wondering the price of the ticket i believe it came out to 50 canadian dollars which
would be 43.44 american for the six and a half hour journey like i said this is the executive
class so if you went economy i think it's like a third of that price now as for how to book the
tickets this part i wish would have worked out easier where there is a website i believe it's
ticket.com with uh just a k they do have an english translation website but unfortunately
as i saw many other tourists have the same issue i think it only takes indonesian credit cards
because i tried both of my cards i also tried the bank i thought it was maybe them blocking it
on their end but they said no it's the company who's issuing the tickets so it would have been a
lot easier if i could have gotten my ticket online but instead i had to come in person to the actual
train station i came a few days ago just because i was worried there might not be a lot of tickets
since i was leaving on a sunday but unless you are here in busy season i think you can also just show
up on the day at least an hour before your train and get the tickets like right when you arrive
all right so first impression of the train is that it's really nice
really roomy i love the leg room at first i was a little worried that there was no like
tray table or anything but i guess it's like tucked up into here so all in all
seems very comfortable for the six and a half hour journey the only thing i'm still wondering about
is what kind of food they have and you know just what you're able to get on the train because i
didn't bring any kind of like snacks or drinks so hopefully they have lost
you
do
all right guys it's about 3 30 and we have arrived at yogyakarta now i'm kind of on
the fence of what i should do my hotel from what google maps tells me is only about a
15 minute walk doable if the pavement sidewalks are okay if it's not then i have to get a
grab taxi or regular taxi but there were so many people so many people on the train
so there's more than likely a like 20 to 30 minute wait for the taxi so i guess we'll see
i am very happy that i ended up taking a grab taxi guys it would have been a bit chaotic to get here
walking with all my suitcases but i have arrived to my hotel this is hotel da fam i believe is the
name and it's really well rated kind of mid-range sort of hotel i'm paying 35 yeah i think 35 us a
night but that doesn't have breakfast because i just figured there might be some days where i
actually want to try some of the other restaurants around here and to be honest i'm like very tired
right now i'm actually very glad that i took the six and a half hour train because for some reason
my energy levels are just super low right now i just want to order some room service and just
relax for the night yogyakarta is supposed to have some amazing temples and nature around this area
there's even a very active volcano so a lot to explore that i will show you guys in my next video
and let me know in the comments let me know if any of you have been here before
or taken the train what was your experience and as always i'm sending you lots of love
hope you're having a fantastic day and keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys
you