CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 195 km round trip from Mungkid - roughly 3 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it, Prambanan Temple Compounds, back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it and back through Prambanan Temple Compounds.
The name Compounds is the clue to what makes this place unusual: Borobudur is not alone. The monument forms part of a larger sacred landscape in the Kedu Plain, where the river Progo and the river Elo meet, a setting that Javanese tradition regarded as a spiritual centre. Two smaller temples, Pawon and Mendut, stand to the east of the main monument in a straight line, and the three together were included in the UNESCO listing. Archaeologists still argue over exactly why they were aligned that way, but the idea that pilgrims once walked between them as part of a ritual route is widely accepted.
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Borobudur Temple Compounds is where the day begins. Next is The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it.
Yogyakarta was laid out along a line. In the eighteenth century, Sultan Hamengkubuwono I founded the city on an axis running from the smoking cone of Mount Merapi in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south, with the Tugu monument, the Kraton palace and the Panggung Krapyak stage pavilion placed along it, embodying Javanese ideas about the cycle of life and the relation between people, ruler and the cosmos. The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and its Historic Landmarks was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2023, and the sultanate still functions: the sultan is also the governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta.
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The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Prambanan Temple Compounds.
Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia, a cluster of soaring stone towers on the plain between Yogyakarta and Solo, with the volcano Merapi brooding to the north. The central shrines were built in the ninth century and dedicated to the Trimurti: Shiva in the tallest tower, about forty-seven metres high, flanked by Brahma and Vishnu, with smaller temples for their mounts facing them. The walls are covered with reliefs of the Ramayana, carved so that you read the story as you walk clockwise around the galleries.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Prambanan Temple Compounds.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it, about halfway. Next is Prambanan Temple Compounds.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prambanan Temple Compounds write-up.
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Prambanan Temple Compounds sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it comes up about 118 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Prambanan Temple Compounds.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prambanan Temple Compounds write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Prambanan Temple Compounds.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it, late in the day. Next is Borobudur Temple Compounds.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borobudur Temple Compounds write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 195 km.
Borobudur Temple Compounds → The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it → Prambanan Temple Compounds is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prambanan Temple Compounds → The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prambanan Temple Compounds → back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it → back through Prambanan Temple Compounds is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Prambanan Temple Compounds → back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it → Borobudur Temple Compounds is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.