Borobudur, Indonesia | World's largest Buddhist temple

Pronunciation. Borobudur. You're the worst with languages, aren't you? Borobudur. Morning from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I'm Renata. I create travel videos here on YouTube. And I'm a journalist, so come along. Yogyakarta is very famous for the ancient temples that they have around the city. So, this is what you're gonna see in today's video. But first, breakfast. They give you free water as you come in. Borobudur. Welcome to the single most visited attraction in Indonesia. This is Borobudur. Also the largest Buddhist temple in the entire world. Gordon, it's not candy, okay? This means temple. Borobudur is located about an hour and a half from Yogyakarta. There's a bus you can take from the city to come here. We hired a driver to stay with us for the whole day because we also want to visit other out-of-town attractions. This place is huge. I thought you'd just get in and see the temple, like other temples that we visited. But, no, there's this huge park here. It's really beautiful. Oh, wow. It's massive. Look at that. Budo means monastery and budur, hill. So, temple on a hill. What does it mean? Not allowed to speak? Yeah, let's be quiet. See? There's a dress code. No heels. Cannot sit. No guns. Let's go find the candy. It's hidden in there. The candy is hidden. You're still dreaming about it? It's hidden. I'm gonna find it. I'm gonna find the candy. When you look from the top, you can see that this place is in the shape of a traditional Buddhist mandala, which is a square with four entry points and a circular center point. Every single wall is fully decorated like this. So many details. It's very, very impressive. And you can touch it. This place is full of tourists, but it is so big that you find a lot of spaces like this, totally empty. Yeah, Crocodile Dundee. That's a good one. I'll start calling him Crocodile Dundee now. You, too. Bye. Crocodile Dundee. The lady looked at him and said, You look like Crocodile Dundee. No, she said you look like someone. I told her who I look like. Oh. I had to let her know. Be careful. It could happen to you. I'll lose my head. Yes. Burubudur was built in the 8th century, but it was abandoned. But after that, as the center of power moved to East Java, no one knows exactly why, but it's speculated that there was a massive volcanic eruption here and people just wanted to get away. Then, after, Burubudur was abandoned and hidden for centuries, until the 1800s. Amazing how you walk all over here and you don't see anyone. I think everyone just rushes to get up instead of admiring the bottom parts. But it is very beautiful. In the superior parts, you see the stupas like this, and each one here has a Buddha inside. There are 504 Buddha statues here. They have their hands in different positions. There's even a guide here explaining what each one means. Oh, there's one open here. We're surrounded by volcanoes here, too. There's one right here, another over there. You can barely see because of the haze. Wow, we're that close. It's going to explode. It's going to explode on us. Haram. This volcano here is Mount Merapi, the most active volcano in entire Indonesia. Here at the top, this is the main part. This centrosphere right here represents Nirvana. Oh, yeah, sure. Thank you. Cheers. This is also a very popular destination for the sunrise. A lot of people come here. Actually, I read online that it gets really, really crowded. So I prefer to come here in the morning and have a little bit more space. And it actually worked. Also, with the sunrise stepping, you never know exactly what you're going to expect, right? For today, the forecast was for a sunny, beautiful day from 9 a.m. on. The sunrise is supposed to be cloudy, so I prefer not even to risk. Hello. I think we got here at a perfect time. 9.30 in the morning, not crowded at all. Look at the size of this temple. This is one single structure. So impressive. It's like a fully decorated pyramid. Wow. We're at Jendiborobudur. Thank you. We have so many choices now of different places, different temples to go. We decided visiting the second most popular one here in the Yogyakarta area. In the end, if you think it's going to be an easy walk out, you have to go through... It's a mile. Yeah. A mile, yeah. It's like hundreds of shops here. It's a maze. Remember, the shopping lane goes all the way to Jakarta. To Jakarta? I wouldn't say, but to Yogyakarta, maybe. No, I mean, we're almost in Jakarta. We're that close. We got our tickets online. You just show like this on your phone. Easy, but it was not even necessary because there was no line. And for foreigners, it is expensive, $25. So, you have domestic entrance right here, and foreign over there. Price is different, of course. Can we pay with credit card? Yes. Okay, American Express. Okay. Terima kasih. You're welcome. You can get a welcome drink here, too. You can go here. This is Ramanan. In one location, you get four temples here. Okay. Ramanan, Kubra, Lumbum, and then Sewu temple. Wow. Three temples is a Buddhist temple. Just Ramanan, this is Hindu temple. This is Hindu. This is also Buddhist. Oh, these are... All three are Buddhist temples. This is three major gods for the Hindu. Uh-huh. Brahma, Shiva, and then Vishnu. We're now in Prambanan, another major temple complex, but this one is Hindu. Interesting. But we made a major mistake coming here. I'm going to tell you all about it in the next video. Cute. These stones move sometimes. The candy. Ha-ha-ha. No candy. I went to Borobudur, and I end up in Jakarta. Jakarta, the easy way. Through Borobudur, Borobudur.