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Borobudur Temple - Yogyakarta
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Java Air Rally
We departed Bulelang for the first leg of the Rally to fly to the "Jambore Aero Sport 2001" in Jakarta via Yogyakarta and Nusa Wiru.
Landing in Surabaya we awaited the remaining 12 aircraft to arrive for a briefing by the Indonesian Airforce - who were the hosts for the event.
Heading south west we then flew to Yogyakarta and were officially welcomed by the Commanders and Generals of the Airforce training base in their VIP Room with a lunch.

In the late afternoon we were then given a tour of the nearby Borobudur Buddhist Temple -one of the 7 Wonders of the World.
A stone pyramid with a base of 118 metres x 118 metres was constructed between 750 to 850 AD as a Buddhist monument and Temple.
It was lost for hundreds of years under the ash of volcanoes.
In 1815 it was rediscovered by Sir Thomas Raffles and between 1973 to 1983 the structure was renovated and cleaned at a cost of about US ,000,000 .
Hundreds of Buddhas.
There are 432 statues of Buddha on the 6 square terraces that tier up the Monument.
The Buddhas of a side are all in same of one of 4 different poses.
Pictures of Life
The walls of the 6 terraces are lined with relief carvings representing the Buddhist vision of the cosmos.Starting with every day life on the lower levels ,5 kms of pictures in stone, lead up to nirvana-the Buddhist heaven on top.
Buddha in a bell.
On the top 3 circular terraces are 72 lattice stone stupas,each containing a Buddha.
Over the years many of the Buddhas have been stolen from the original 504 when it was first constructed.