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And here we're on our way to the first destination...

(Not following the series? Read the last post here.)

Along the way, our driver took the smaller roads across the farms and the people's houses as shortcuts, and that's part of the reason we are able to see these paddy fields. They are almost everywhere! According to our driver, although these paddy fields don't give enough for the farmers to sell them, they give enough for the farmer's family themselves so that they don't need to spend much on food. Along some other way, we also see farms of other things (common ones are corns, chilli and tobacco leaves) and the driver told us that the families of these farms will normally exchange the harvested results with each other so that everyone has some...definitely feels like what you can expect from a friendly village :)

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A bigger paddy field, this time with something on them.

(It's really not easy to take photos on a bumpy road.)

Didn't really took us too long to reach at Pinus Pengger, a pine forest as our first attraction :) This place is also known as Hutan Pinus Dingo, but I think we recognize it as "a pine forest with nice photo spots" (at least that is what my mum will recognize it as...). Personally I'm not too attracted towards the photo spots (which you can see here at point 42), but the environment of being in a pine tree forest...wow.

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It's just as breathtaking as it gets.

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I should have made a GIF of this, looking at the waving trees right from the bottom is as truly beautiful and mesmerizing.

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Paths to walk in the forest towards each attraction spots. Kudos to the maintainers for building them in a way that does not distract the forest's beauty! Although they are not really well-lit and when the sky turns dark we often find ourselves walking outside of them for whatever reason...lol.

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View from up there! And the sky sure turned dark really quickly...

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It took us some time to get convinced that we didn't get the wrong time on our phones, because that's only around 6pm for their time! A little weird that Yogyakarta's location gives them a local time of GMT+7 but I guess time zones are always that weird...

For dinner, we asked the driver to drop us at some restaurant (my mum wants a clean place), so he found us a Raminten's Kitchen that is pretty famous for their decent food and student-friendly price (and hence making them popular among students!).

...and without spending much time, we have an empty table...no one even cared to took pictures of the food because everyone's so hungry, lol.

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Maybe more food photos for the next day...

This ends the first day of the trip...simple? I really enjoyed the scenery and food. Especially how they dealt with the chilli. Fried rice with chilli cooked with the rice together is brilliant, the aroma and the taste is unique and amazing compared to just adding them in after preparing the rice, or maybe even better than just adding related sauces in when cooking. Now I'm home, if it's not that I have an ulcer in my mouth now, I would try to cook something like that right in my kitchen...

Now, look forward to the second day of the trip (next post)...with more scenery and food!

See you around :)

--Lilacse


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WHAT a great place to stroll through and unwind!
Looking forward to another post with... FOOD!

Can agree that it is an amazing place to just sit down and do nothing because it's indeed very very relaxing...

I'll move the food in today for you! :P

Beautiful scenery, @lilacse! That looking up shot is wicked awesome, and that does look like a cool and unobtrusive way to mark the paths. Oh, and that view! Looks like an amazing trip!

The trip is indeed pretty amazing overall :) glad to see you enjoyed the shots!

Sounds like fun, you must have loved the outdoors hiking by the look of the empty plates at the end of the day.

Enjoyed the photography up through the trees @lilacse

Personally I don't really like hiking, but the atmosphere, sure!

I'm responsible for most of the empty plates there...I finish everything my mum didn't finish, lol.

Those trees look huge! I bet the air must have been so fresh and refreshing.

Those trees look huge! I
Bet the air must have been so
Fresh and refreshing.

                 - wwwiebe


I'm a bot. I detect haiku.

Not really huge, but they are indeed tall...

Air was pretty refreshing! Although it can indeed be better, remember the situation in Indonesia, haze is everywhere...although it is significantly better in Yogyakarta than in other places!

Love those pictures of the trees! 😍

I knew that someone among my readers will love them...hehe, thanks!

And double thanks! For the resteem :)

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