Going to Borobudur ! Amazing Sight!

9th Century temple is the Largest Buddhist monument in existence ~

Borobudur A Gigantic Temple Sight (click on this to read up on this Temple)

 We took the city bus out to Borobudur which was about an hours drive ~ and when we got there we were asked to wear a sarong out of respect for the Temple - OK ! Will do!  Then someone rented us a umbrella because it was "cooking HOT" out here and the rock was HOT too so a whole lot of heat came off of it!

This temple is immense! So BIG - 

 It was pretty pricey we thought $19,00- each - but many people come here from all over the world to see this Temple!

                            Boy - do we look like tourist ....or what?   

                                      Students stopped us to take a pictures with them -
See the Temple in the distance ~

 I took a picture of the rocks - one by one laid out to put this whole temple together...they are fitted but not cemented at all - just laid out to fit ~

See ...the rocks are loose - just laid out side by side! 

Going up the steps..you could feel the heat from the rocks~

                                                    Up Up Up we climbed - and each of those steps were high - and the people are shorter- so for them it was quite a climb I am sure!

There is about 5 levels - 

This dome was missing and so now you can see the Buddha - 

I did climb up one step to show you Mr Buddha and stretched up high so you could look inside too!  Each dome has a

 

a Buddha inside - 

Just look at the view we saw! See where we walked to come to it?  

                                  This is the last level and this picture is taken looking up to the very top.

                                                     Just a beautiful sight from up here!

 This close-up shows you how the rock cutters back in the 8-9th century would cut the rock on a slant - to round the rock for the dome---all done by hand! 

               Pretty neat picture huh of the surroundings?! 

 Say "Cheese!"

             Oh by the way - the monks back in those days - did need electricity to you know! ha!

Nick's pretty tall - and just look at those steps how high each one is?!

It was quite a day - we headed to the exit - handed in our sarong's and the umbrella we had rented - and the sweet gal gave me this very big hug - and I kissed her right back! Of Course! 

Nick were ready to head back to Yogyakarta - we had another city bus to take back - so we were pretty hot & sticky by the time we got back in town!
But what a treat it was to see this overwhelming mass of rock today! 

I can't imagine how hard it was for the men who built it- 60,000 workers - taking 10 yrs to build it and how dangerous it was to build back on those day - ugh!