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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From Candi Prambanan it runs 114 km to Candi Prambanan; allow about 1 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it, Mendut Temple and back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it. The line favours views over speed.
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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Prambanan 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 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mendut Temple.
Mendut is the small, elegant temple that most visitors pass on their way to Borobudur, and that is a mistake. Built in the early ninth century under the Sailendra dynasty, it stands about three kilometres east of the great monument, on a straight line that also passes through the tiny Pawon temple, and scholars believe the three were connected in a ritual sequence. Each year, at the Buddhist festival of Waisak, monks walk in procession from Mendut through Pawon to Borobudur, carrying candles and chanting.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Mendut Temple. 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, late in the day. Next is 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.
Back at Prambanan Temple Compounds. That is the ride.
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.
The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it → Mendut Temple is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mendut Temple → back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.