AOE: Yogyakarta Day 2, De Mata & De Arca.

In day 2, me and my family went to "De Mata trick eye museum" and "De Arca statue museum". Like its name, De Mata is an art museum of 3D which displaying through posters. You just have to take a picture from the right angle, and it will become like those figures at the posters are coming out to real life. That is amazing! 😆

If De Mata is a museum that collect some 3D posters, De Arca is a museum of statue of famous persons in the world. It is like Madame Tussaud in Bangkok, Hong Kong, New York, etc; but its collection is not that many as Madame Tussaud's. Nevertheless, we were amazed by it. The entrance fee for those two museums is IDR 60k (05/04/15). It is not that expensive, isn't it?

De Mata tricky eye museum

De Arca statue museum

How is it? It's not bad, right? Maybe I haven't had a chance to go to Madame Tussaud but De Arca gave me the experience that is not that different from Madame Tussaud's and it is good enough for us. In another side, De Mata amazed us in different way as well. Its 3D collection has blown up our mind. Creativity and innovation are blended perfectly. There are 120 3D posters fulfilling its rooms. It is worth it for your first experience of 3D and Statue museums.

See ya on the next post, day 3!

Other photos on day 2:

AOE: Yogyakarta Day One, Off Road Around Mount Merapi.

Hello again everyone!

It's been a while. Finally, I got my free time for writing some stories in this blog again. In spending my long weekend in Yogyakarta with family, I think it would be great if I choose it as recent main story.

As almost every Indonesian knows that Yogyakarta is the second most famous destination in Indonesia, no wonder if my parents chose it as our long weekend destination. We took an executive class train from Bandung to Yogyakarta. Please don't think too much when I said "executive class train" here. It's just IDR 230.000 or approximetaly AUD 23. That's quite cheap when you compare it to 388 km journey from Bandung to Yogyakarta.

Executive class train.

We arrived at 02.55 and we got nothing to do but waiting. After 3.5 hours of waiting, we finaly decided to go out of the station and get a rental car for a whole day. Our first destination was Merapi Mountain Museum in Sleman, Yogyakarta which spent almost an hour from the station. 

Gifts from guests at Merapi Mountain Museum.

Staring at Merapi summit from far away (?)

Traditional costume of Java.

One of many victims of Merapi eruption in 2010 which killed almost 500 people including Mbah Marijan, caretaker of the mountain.

One of the most famous myth at Merapi mountain, Nyai Gadung Melati.

When we were exploring the Merapi Mountain Museum, someone offered us a package of "Lava tour" which is famous in there. So, We took one package spontaneously even though we had no idea how we could deal with a real offroad experience.

Off road-ing to spots of attractions around Merapi mountain.

Enjoying our ride !

Dealing with this was blowing up my mind. Haha..

"Contemplate life with seeing the damage of Merapi eruption"

Handwritings of this house owner.

"Merapi never break its promise"

Pose with these livestocks bones, victims of 2010 Merapi eruption at Sisa Hartaku mini museum.

Off road cars that took us for this Lava tour.

This bunker was made to protect people from eruption. Merapi eruption has killed 3 volunteer at this spot.

After we satisfied having this Lava tour, we went to Parangtritis beach. We planned to have a lunch there at first but we had to cancel it due to an event that be held at the place. We just had water of coconut to fulfill our thirst and go away from there. However, we still had a second plan for our lunch. There is a seafood restaurant that looks famous enough 12 km away from the beach. It's a fortunate that we could have a lunch there because we were starving to death at that time.

The last destination for our day one of our holiday was my mom desire, buying a bag made from animal skin, in this case is made from cow skin. We went directly to the supplier so, we got a low price for the bag. Beside that, we also bought some Gudegs, Yogyakarta traditional food at Wijilan street, the most famous street for Gudeg in Yogyakarta.

That's our day one story. I am going to come back soon with day two story. See ya, have a nice long weekend, everyone !