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This is my first experience to post my written in Blog. Please correction me if I  make mistakes. I am from Indonesia. Indonesia is an archipelago country. Situated in the Equator, that has tropical climate

I want to introduce the other beautiful of Indonesia by rising of Borobudur temple topic. The Borobudur temple situated in Magelang nearby Yogyakarta Province. I think readers here have ever heard about it, yes it was a one of miracles of world. Recently the temple is assigned as one of the world heritages by UNESCO. 

Borobudur temple is the most famoust destination in Indonesia. If it is viewed by the typical of relief and construction can be categorized the Buddhist temple. There are 10 (ten) levels including 6 (six) levels of square form and 3 (three) levels of circle shape and the rest is main stupa for the summit of temple. It has totally 72 for stupa, excluding main stupa, wherein the Buddhist statue is inside of each stupas. The huge temple is constructed from stone blocks that has totally height of 42 meters. Each stone is glued without using cement or adhesive, it is only spliced by stacking of stone blocks based on pattern design. Amount of stone blocks approximately 55.000 cubic meters, it has been taken from the river adjacent to the temple. There are found 2670 divergent reliefs carving on the the temple’s wall. The reliefs are read as clockwise and describing an illustrated story in Buddhist theme. 

Every year on the full moon moment in May or June, Buddhists in Indonesia celebrate Vesak at Borobudur. This event aim to commemorate the nascence, mortality and the time of Siddarta Gautama obtaining the highest wisdom become The Buddhist Shakyamuni. The last one event is called “Vesak Trisuci”. 

Borobudur temple is a good destination for tourist and very attractive place to visit. Besides it is a holy place for Buddhist in Indonesia for annualy celebration of Vesak Day that it is the important day for Buddhists . Afterwards the tourist can continue their travelling to interesting areas around the temple such as Karang anyar or Yogyakarta. Karang anyar has a good scene and it is just like a plateau, so the best place to release of stress and calming down of mind. After that Yogyakarta is a heaven of shopping to spend our money for buying unique and interesting things like “batik” clothes or silver crafts. The last topic of both cities likely describe in other moments.