mysterious temples and ruins...

Hello doggydimon, are you one of the participants the Java summer camp 2012 in Prambanan next june? It is nice that you will visit my city to see prambanan temples, i pass this temple everyday on my way to go home. You should try to enjoy the sunset in Boko temple which located not far from Prambanan. There are so many temples around Prambanan such as candi sewu (sewu temple, sewu means a thousand), Kalasan temple, Banyu nibo temple, etc. I also have the same fascination towards temples and the ruins of the past, my imagination will imagine what kind of life that my ancestors had, how did they build the temple, etc. I still enjoy the legend of Prambanan temple, I know it is just a legend and not a real story but I cant stop read the story again and again. The story is about a princess who was cursed to be the last temple by a prince who proposed her. By the way do you know there is a urban legend about Prambanan temple, do not come to Prambanan temple with your lover unless you are married and you bring your spouse, because people believe the relationship will break up due to the curse. There are many temples in my country I have not visit such as gedong songo temple, dieng plateu, etc. I also would love to visit Angkor wat the twins temple of Prambanan, pyramid, the city of pompeii in Italy, etc. I also have the same thought as you, why they abandoned the city & temples, if there was a natural disaster that burried the temple so where were the people...wasn't there any survivor who wrote manuscript about what was going on, how did they build the temples, etc. I like reading the ancient manuscript but I still could not find any information about how they build the temple, the manuscript is only talking about the emperor, the history of the kingdom, the war but how they build the temple left a big question for us. I hope you have a nice vacation in Yogyakarta, and my advice to beware of pick pocket, and also always ask the price list before you order food if you decide to eat in lesehan in Malioboro. if you found any problem/trouble dont hesitate to contact me, Im not originally from Yogyakarta but i've been living here since 2009. have a nice vacation

I love that too, friend. I have visited Aztec and Mayan ruins in Mexico and I wish I could go to Machu Picchu. It is a desire I have had for a long time. But I will have to hope that someone I know wants to go there as I don´t dare travel alone now.

One day I would love to visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Most of all I wish to go to Machu Picchu in Peru. Due to it being very high up in the mountains I would be worried about my disabled son getting altitude sickness. I have just come back from my trip and have seen some lovely cathedrals. In Cordoba in Argentina we went to a gothic church and loved seeing it. Wow! In 2006 I visited Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. There I loved seeing Tikal National Park in Guatemala. I enjoyed climbing up some of the Mayan ruins and seeing them. I felt a sense of the past. The highlight of that trip was going to cave to see broken pieces of Mayan pottery. I had to swim into the cave and do much climbing.

I am going to visit Angkor Wat this year and I really look forward to that. I have read about it and I found a lot of pictures online. I think that it will be really interesting to visit Angkor Wat in person. I look forward to exploring Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm. We won't have enough time to visit all of the temples in the area so we have chosen to focus on the most important ones. In Ayutthaya in Thailand we are also going to visit the temple ruins. We plan on visiting Ayutthaya on a daytrip from Bangkok, and I think that it will be an interesting city to visit. Borobudur and Prambanan are also among the temples that I want to visit in the future. I won't visit them this year, but I plan on including a visit to those places in the my second trip to Asia where I will visit Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and a couple of other places. When I visit Peru I will definately visit Machu Picchu, but that won't happen in the near future.

I have traveled all over Japan, seen the sites of Beijing,China, and spent a month traveling Egypt. I have seen amazing temples, shrines, tombs and churches. So much of our history is based in the religion of the area, that these play an important part in understanding the past.

I do have the same fascination. I have quite a vivid imagination, and try to imagine people's lives back then (with the infos I get from a travel book or a tourist guide). I love ruins, too, because these are the proof something existed there in the old/ancient times. I've actually seen the Pyramids, and wow, that was an undescribable experience. There's this church here, in Hungary from the Middle Ages, probably one of the oldest ruins... and there's this guy who wants to build it back again to restore the original look... and I'm like, nooooooo... it's so enchanting and mesmerising and though-provoking as a ruin, it would be cheating to build it back again...

I love that too, friend. I have visited Aztec and Mayan ruins in Mexico and I wish I could go to Machu Picchu. It is a desire I have had for a long time. But I will have to hope that someone I know wants to go there as I don´t dare travel alone now.

I do not have too much passion on the temples but it's indeed mysterious.And i have visited some of them in my country.I have to say that it is such a genious work to build that at that time and how people once live with that.I think that the temples in Vietnam and Nepal would really be worth visiting.