I had always wanted to visit the Borobudur temple. I remember reading about it from somewhere, probably an in-flight magazine or a text book from my school years, and I remember how I got awed by the picture of mysterious stupas that sit timelessly atop a complex structure. It was exactly the reason why I flew into Jogja for. So after spending half a day wandering off the temple complex of Prambanan, I returned to the hotel to pack up…
So I went to Jogja recently, taking the opportunity off a task that I was assigned to do in Kuala Lumpur, meaning I could spare my money from having to buy the air ticket from Kota Kinabalu to Kuala Lumpur and back. Ever since the pandemic, direct flights from Kota Kinabalu to international destinations have been so rare making traveling from this current base of mine highly unaffordable. So traveling into Jogja from Kuala Lumpur, the real journey began at…
So my job had required me to fly to India on the last week before Christmas, my very first travel trip out since the pandemic took the whole world by storm in the early year of 2020. I took a flight from Kota Kinabalu to Kuala Lumpur at about 10pm on a Saturday night where I did a 5-hour transit before flying off to Chennai where I’d be spending another 5 hours before taking a domestic flight to Bangalore. …