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Published: October 1st 2011
We rented a scooter today and drove out to Kota Gede, the silver handicraft village just outside of the city. We stumbled upon a touristy building and went inside. We were shown how the silver craftsmanship was done. Don’t ask me the process, but it was really cool! One guy was the cleaner/shiner. When we were at the crater in Bandung and I put my hand in the water, my stainless steel ring changed to a dark color. He used a natural cleaning agent and cleaned it for me and it now looks as good as new. Our tour guide also gave me 2 of the berry like things. You just break the peel, put it in water, and it suds up. After, went into their show room but everything was of course very expensive. We walked around the village a bit but I didn’t find anything either.
Our next destination was about an hour away. We got hungry halfway and stopped at a restaurant we found on the side of the road. The menu had no English on it so the girl kept pointing between two dishes for us but couldn’t tell us what they were. Tris pulled
out his iphone and used the translator. One of the dishes she repeatedly pointed to was HORSE! Instead we decided on beef satay and rice.
Since we never found the sand dunes in Mui Ne, Vietnam we thought we’d try to find the Depok sand dunes. The photo on our map looked really cool… apparently a sand dune is a rare nature phenomenon. It’s a sand puddle that reaches 20 mpl height and only can be found in two countries, and Indonesia is one of them. We of course somehow got on the wrong road and had to get pointed in the right direction a few times… but we made it and were DISSAPOINTED! They were NOTHING like the photo. We walked around, jumped up and down a few sand hills and continued on our way to Depok beach.
To get to the beach we had to walk through a little market full of fish, other foods and trinkets. The beach itself was dark black volcanic sand, huge waves, lots of Muslims, quads for rent, kites etc. We were the only tourists. The water was freezing, and the waves were way too big for anyone to go swimming. We
walked through the market, walked on the beach, took some pictures and drove back to Yogyakarta.
We read online that a restaurant called Ayam Gorgeng Nyonya Suharti is a famous spot for Yogyakarta’s special fried chicken so we decided to give it a try. The restaurant is located out by the airport, and it says that a lot of locals buy the chicken in bulk before flying out to visit their relatives elsewhere in Indonesia. We were impressed, the fried chicken was damn good! The breadcrumbs were light and fluffy but full of flavor, and the sauce ohhh the sauce. A sweet tomatoey chili type sauce to go with the chicken was superb! The veggies we ordered were really good too.
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