I could not wait to start writing about my trip to Yogyakarta, but a lack of time and too much procrastination in between disallowed me from diving straight in. However, I was able to put together, in a hurried state, a music video of the random footage I had taken while walking around that interesting city and visiting the temple complexes of both Borobudur and Prambanan. As a preview of my future blog posts about that journey of mine, here it was with The Byrds' "Turn! Turn! Turn!" serving as the soundtrack.

I had always worried about passing immigration since an experience in Hong Kong a couple of years prior, making it my biggest concern for my trip to Indonesia. Since I had been working as a freelancer for a few months at that point, I no longer had a company ID to present. As I arrived at NAIA Terminal Three, it was all I could think about. While lining up to pay the expensive travel tax, I was distracted by a Spanish-looking mestiza girl in front of me. I quickly assumed she was heading to either Bali or Phuket. That was why I felt a bit surprised when I spotted her again with her friend lining up at the check-in counter for Jakarta.