joyous yogykarta!

have just arrived in WONDERFUL Yogykarta in central Java-ITS GORGEOUS and were staying in a stunning logman(hostel) which is 75p each a night and has carved shutters and fourposter beds and a garden with a well! Really great, lots of backpackers to hang with and a really safe atmosphere. chuffed to bits to be here!
Just to fill you in....we went to Bogor from Jakarta and met 2 really nicedutch girls(who are also in yogya but in a diff hotel now) who had just booked into a giuded tourist style trip (3days 2 nights staying in a bamboo hut, rainforest trek up a volcano, trek to hot springs, visit to gong factory and traditional puppet workshop-inc food,water, driver etc) which came to just under 50quid so really fab. So we went with them-treckd down a mountainside to the hot spring which was GORG, heated from volcano-then swam in the cold river...got pics of it all but computer may be to slow-will have a go. The trek in the rainforest was very hard (and a bit scary!), 8hrs!, but was a real experience (had to step around quicksand, HUGE spiders etc) walked in the crater of my first volcano and smothered ourselves in volcanic ash (supposedly the best natural antiaging!) with bubbling water and plumes of really sulpherous gas....insanely weird but great. So whole experience was brill!
One thing not so great- 2 girls and 1 bloke were given traditional javan massage by one of the men who were there to help us trek who said it was really good, so i had a go, and he tried it on (shall we say), nothing really bad happened, shook me up, but i got out very quick and later told 3 of the tour guides who were LOVELY what happened-big fight broke out and the guy was chucked out....found out yesterday(we were in bandung and met 2 other girls who had been on the tour at the same time-and they said similar had happend to both of them but they hadnt told anyone).....anyway i took homeopathy for shock/stress etc and now feeling really fine....the 2 lovely dutch girls we have hung with for a few days (Ayella and Aneka)and jen delt with me brilliantly!
So the internet is very slow , so will try my luck again uploading some pics.
OFF FOR SOME FOOD- been on a 9hr train today and woke at 5:45am this morning!!!
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