Friday 4th March 2016 Yogyakarta, which is pronounced Jogya-karta, or simply Jogja, is the next town on our list. We'd bought the train tickets on our first day in Jakarta and after leaving the hostel at 7am for our 8am train, we boarded for what would be an 8 hour journey. We'd paid a little more for an 'Executive' train which according to the hostel was going to provide us with a more comfortable journey. The tickets had cost £18 each but for the long journey we wanted to be comfy. When the train pulled up at 7:30am I noticed it was quite a run down old looking train, for some reason, in my head I was picturing the Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan. This was not of that standard, but having said that, once on
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