In Reply to: Very interesting. posted by loveatfirstbite on Sunday, 23. August 2009 at 07:47 Bali Time:
Yes Kerrie, it's very busy. Not as "upmarket" as Bali and you see lots of slums and poor areas in Yogyakarta. Not alot of signage in English and not many locals actually speak English so that was hard. I don't know what i was expecting because to be honest, I've never wanted to go there as I had a lot of people tell me it wasn't "safe" for women etc. I never felt unsafe and it was very busy when we were there with people looking to import - so I think things may have changed in the past year or two. I just think you have to be a bit careful as there are some unscrupulous people there so it would be easy to get ripped off. In saying that, we will go back in Feb 2010 and I'm really looking forward to it.
Email me if I can help in any way.
cheers
Lyn