It was Thursday, February 14, 2008. This is vacation at the end of my semester, while graduation is still waiting for another month. Together with two friends of mine, we depart from Jakarta by Taksaka train heading to Yogyakarta. The trips taken within 8 hours by this train. I bought the tickets a day before, it’s fares Rp.180.000 per ticket. The next day, another friend came after from Malang. In Yogyakarta, two of my cousins would accompany us tour around Yogyakarta.
There are several alternatives to go to Yogyakarta beside by train, by an aircraft which only takes 50 minutes flight with tickets costing less than IDR 300,000 or could also use the inter-city bus takes about 12 hours with a ticket price between IDR 50,000 to IDR 100,000.
The first day: Manding.
