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10-Hour Culture Tour To Yogyakarta City

  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Architecture, Culture, History

  • Duration

    10 Hours

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English

Description

Explore the famous sites of Yogyakarta, which is renowned for its traditional & cultural heritage. Visit the Sultan Royal Palace, where the Sultan and his family lived, the Water Castle, also known as Taman Sari and the former royal garden of the Sultanate. Also, offer your prayers at the Prambanan Temple, the biggest Hindu temple from the ninth century. 

Highlights
  • Explore the Sultan Royal Palace
  • Visit the former royal garden of the Sultanate
  • Marvel at the 9th-century Prambanan Temple
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    • Meet with the tour guide at your hotel in Yogyakarta.

    • Travel to Sultan Palace, built in 1755, is the site where the Sultan of Yogyakarta and his family lived. 

    • Continue to the Water Castle, or Taman Sari, meaning 'fragrant garden', is named so for the delicious fragrance emanated by 18 lavish gardens planted with flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees, that once were part of the compound. 

    • Stop for lunch at a local restaurant.

    • Walk around the Prambanan Temple, the biggest and the most beautiful Hindu temple in Indonesia, built in 9th-century. 

    • Travel back to your hotel after the tour. 

What's Included

  • All services as offered in the itinerary

  • English-speaking Indonesian tour guide

  • Transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle

  • Meals

  • Entrance & parking fees at each site

What's Excluded
  • Tips
Know before you go

  • Sultan Royal Palace or Kraton is the site where the Sultan of Yogyakarta and his family lived. It is located at the center of the axes stretching from North to South and East to West. Built in 1755, it is crowned by a row of mountains called the 'Horizon', or 'the border of the universe'. 

  • Water Castle or Taman Sari means 'fragrant garden', is named so for the delicious fragrance emanated by 18 lavish gardens planted with flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees, that once were part of the compound. It was nicknamed 'water castle' by the Dutch because of its imposing two-story mansion of Portuguese-Javanese design, now in ruins. Built by Sultan Hamengkubuwono I beginning in 1758 and completed in 1765.

  • Prambanan Temple is the biggest and the most beautiful Hindu temple about 20 minutes from the airport. This magnificent Shivaite derives its name from the village where its located. Locally known as the Roro Jonggrang Temple or the temple of the “slender virgin”. The temple is believed to have been built in the middle of the ninth century.

Meeting Point

Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta City, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
Standard
1 To 4 IDR 1200000 Per Person

This is a private tour
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USD 77 / person