IPUGM Medicine Faculty 2008: A Trip to Borobudur Temple

Last Saturday, The Kamadhis Society organised a trip to Borobudur temple, a buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. We were separated into two buses and departed at the same time.

Unfortunately, one bus broke down on the way. So, we had to come down from the bus and some guys had to push the bus to start the engine. What a scene...

Oh my... Andika trying to push the bus by himself....

No mirror? Use sunglasses lo...

We waited for quite some time before another bus came for rescue.

This guy came up and started to sing. He thought Rufus and Selva were from India... Some said his singing sucks...

Finally, we reached our destination around an hour later.

While waiting for our ticket, many sellers approached us and promoted their products.

Kohi, Kean Seng, Sham, Jan, and Prassana..

This is how Candi Borobudur looks like from far. This monument comprises of six square platform topped by three circular platform. A main doom is located at the top of the platform.

Hsiao Suan and Selva...

Shh, maybe we were not supposed to climb the wall, but... never mind la... Haha

Rooban and Ash

Yin li and Wen Mei walking on the narrow corridor with reliefs on the wall... The reliefs on the wall were actually stories about Buddha and some other stories as well....

say cheese...

The sellers never quit... They set their price very high. So, you must really cut the price down, at least 2/3 of the actual price...

in front of Borobudur...

The Buddha statues (mostly headless) were placed in the perforated stupa. The Buddha looks similar, but they are actually different in Mudras and their hands position. We stretched our hand in to touch the Buddha and made wishes.