CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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247 km from Colomadu to Colomadu, about 4 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Prambanan Temple Compounds, The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it, back through Prambanan Temple Compounds and back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Half of what we know about Homo erectus in Asia seems to have come out of the ground near this village in central Java. Sangiran is a dome of eroded earth, a few kilometres across, in which stream cuts have exposed layers of volcanic ash and river sediment that built up over about two million years, and in those layers the bones of early humans and extinct animals have turned up. The first finds were made in the 1930s, notably by the German palaeontologist Ralph von Koenigswald, and the site has since produced the remains of some fifty individuals, about half of all known fossils of its kind in the world. UNESCO listed it in 1996.
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Sangiran Early Man Site is where the day begins. 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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Prambanan Temple Compounds comes up 33 km in. 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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66 km in you reach The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it.
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Prambanan Temple Compounds, about halfway. Next is The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it.
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The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Prambanan Temple Compounds.
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back through Prambanan Temple Compounds comes up 166 km in. Next is back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it.
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199 km in you reach back through The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and it.
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Read the complete Prambanan Temple Compounds write-up.
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back through Prambanan Temple Compounds, late in the day. Next is Sangiran Early Man Site.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sangiran Early Man Site write-up.
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The route ends here after 247 km.
Sangiran Early Man Site → Prambanan Temple Compounds is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 → Prambanan Temple Compounds is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → 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 → Sangiran Early Man Site is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.