Yogyakarta – 
Gnah… Great. Once again I wake up having an annoying sore throat. Chosing the correct setting for the air conditioning systems seems to be rocket science here…
For today, we have decided to watch the well-known Ramayana Ballet or at least try to get some tickets for the following days. But first we look for another hotel… something offering more quiet and somewhat larger rooms. Our choice: The Abadi Hotel right in front of the main train station. This way we are right at the centre and will also just have to cross the street to take the train to Jakarta on our last day. We also want to spoil ourselves a bit on the last few days having a little more luxury… “or something like that” . On the other hand, the toilet in our room was most likely designed for dwarfs. Yet, been provided a candle in the bathroom one can nevertheless somehow create some “romantic atmosphere” . Oh well…
We don’t want to have a very busy day today – just have a walk in the city and look for tickets for the Ramayana Ballet. Our plan was originally to take the main road and head into the direction of the palace of the sultan and look for information on the internet via mobile phone (The Wifi in the hotel is really not that realiable). Unfortunately, this doesn’t work out either: It is so hot and humid that the touchscreen of my mobile doesn’t work properly. Using the it is almost impossible. So I ask for directions to the nearest Internetcafe. There should be one in about 50m. Nice. In fact it is more like “just around the corner” . (It ‘s not the first time that we get told strange distances when asking for directions from Indonesians) I guess people here use their scooters even for shorter distances as well – the pavewalks are more like “additional parking lots” for scooters. I’ve hardly seen a local walk on those.