It was a cloudy and still morning on February 2nd when we woke up to get ready for our journey from Jakarta to Yogyakarta. As always the team assembled at the hotel lobby on time and we commenced our soujourn with a cab ride to the Soekarno-Hatta airport. It was Jean Sum from ABV who accompanied us this time as Waya had left earlier to make arrangements for our stay in Yogyakarta.We checked in as a group and mercifully all our extra luggages got unilaterally checked in without any additional charges....many thanks to the disciplined light travellers of the group .:-)
One and half hours later we landed in the quaint looking Adusutjipto airport of Yogyakarta. At the beginning of our trip we were told Jakarta is the political capital of Java while Yogyakarta, also known as Jogja ( pronounced Yogya) for short was the spiritual and cultural capital. If the airport is any indication of that, it did not disappoint. Surrounded by mountains and serene scenery, the bumpy landing was not even felt by any one of us. Waya received us with a caravan at the airport and we checked into our nice comfortable hotel rooms. Post a briefing session in the afternoon, we headed for dinner at a local restaurant which by last
count had about 100 Indonesian dishes to choose from....and what more around 20 of them were vegetarian...my kind of place..;)
The next day we headed up to the University of Gajeh Madah to participate in the seminar organized by IBM for the promotion of entrepreneurship. In the second half, we were introduced to our clients and that ended our long day. On Tuesday morning, we participated in the public event at a school
where IBM introduced and donated the KidSmart platform. Our scheduled meeting with the client got postponed which meant that we got some extra time to do shopping for our Batik clothing at the famous Malioboro street.
One and half hours later we landed in the quaint looking Adusutjipto airport of Yogyakarta. At the beginning of our trip we were told Jakarta is the political capital of Java while Yogyakarta, also known as Jogja ( pronounced Yogya) for short was the spiritual and cultural capital. If the airport is any indication of that, it did not disappoint. Surrounded by mountains and serene scenery, the bumpy landing was not even felt by any one of us. Waya received us with a caravan at the airport and we checked into our nice comfortable hotel rooms. Post a briefing session in the afternoon, we headed for dinner at a local restaurant which by last
count had about 100 Indonesian dishes to choose from....and what more around 20 of them were vegetarian...my kind of place..;)
The next day we headed up to the University of Gajeh Madah to participate in the seminar organized by IBM for the promotion of entrepreneurship. In the second half, we were introduced to our clients and that ended our long day. On Tuesday morning, we participated in the public event at a school
where IBM introduced and donated the KidSmart platform. Our scheduled meeting with the client got postponed which meant that we got some extra time to do shopping for our Batik clothing at the famous Malioboro street.
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