Day Trip to Borobudur & Prambanan Temple
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Itinerary
Borobudur
The Borobudur Temple is the world’s biggest Buddhist monument, an ancient site widely considered to be one of the world’s seven wonders. The temple sits majestically on a hilltop overlooking lush green fields and distant hills. This 9th-century Buddhist Temple is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The central dome is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues, each seated inside a perforated stupa.
Borobudur temple (Google Map)
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Prambanan Temple
It is the largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia. The temples decorated with reliefs illustrating the epic of the Ramayana, dedicated to the three great Hindu divinities (Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma) and three temples dedicated to the animals who serve them. Prambanan Temple itself is a complex consisting of 240 temples. All the mentioned temples form the Prambanan Archaeological Park and were built during the heyday of Sailendra’s powerful dynasty in Java in the 8th century AD. These compounds are located on the border between the two provinces of Yogyakarta and Central Java on Java Island.
Prambanan as a Hindu Temple was made High and slim compared to Borobudur, with the main Shiva shrine stands 47 meters in the middle of the complex surrounded with smaller temples. Prambanan has a bas-relief on the inner side of the gate around the three main shrine. The bas-relief tells the story about Ramayana and can be read from the east gate clockwise around the inner compound.
Prambanan Temple (Google Map)
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General Information
MEETING POINT JOGJA HOTEL at 08.00
EXPLORE BOROBUDUR at 09.30 - 11.30
DRIVE TO PRAMBANAN 11.30 - 13.00
EXPLORE PRAMBANAN 13.00 - 15.00
BACK TO JOGA HOTEL 15.00 - 16.30
PLEASE WEAR PROPER CLOTHS
