Small group tours to Java

Solo City The official name for this central Javanese town is Surakarta, although you will commonly hear both residents and visitors using its colloquial name, Solo or Solo City. Apparently, while the original settlement was named Sala – after the Sala River, which borders the city to the east – the Dutch colonists, for reasons we can’t fathom, had problems…

Prambanan Temple The spectacular, World Heritage-listed Prambanan Temple is situated in central Java’s Yogyakarta District, a short distance northeast of the eponymous provincial capital. The sanctuary originally dates to the mid-9th century, slightly later than the nearby Buddhist temple Borobudur and the adjacent Candi Sewu. It was dedicated to the god Shiva and, as far as Southeast Asian Hindu temples…

Dieng Plateau There must be days when the sun shines and skies are blue. (we’ve seen the photos in the tourist brochures), but it’s somehow hard to imagine Java’s remote Dieng Plateau without its characteristic swirling mists, dark pine forests and brooding, terrace-covered hills. The lush valleys, cascading rice terraces and villages clinging Provence-style to rugged hillsides would certainly look…