So after almost 2 years of a travel hiatus due to some issue with the LHDN, I finally got to travel abroad again, this time to the East Java in Indonesia. It was not my first time to this part of Indonesia; in fact I already went there about 12 years ago. But of course, it was always good to be back to a place for a second time, as if I was given an opportunity that many others might…
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…