I was boncenging with a guy called Ang who I had only met once before, briefly just after I arrived in Yogya. Luckily, he was hilarious and spoke english well so with a combination of english and indonesian we were able to converse on the 2 hour ride to Gunung Kidul.
After arriving in Wono Sari we sought out the local travel agent for directions to the caves. Unfortunately, joel forgot to factor in that it was a sunday and the travel agent was closed. So we shuffled from police post to police post until we finally got directions to the caves.
The ride to the first cave was the highlight of the day. We ended up on back streets that were basically made of rocks. Full on 4WD material and us on scooters! Excellent! The roads were also slightly flooded making them extremely slippery and there were definately a few times we nearly came of the bike. But giggling like crazy people we slowly drove to the cave. The outcome being a very muddy 13 people! The cave was kind of cool - though nothing special if compared to Margaret River caves - but definately worth the visit.
After wandering around for a hour or so it was off to the next cave. Back along the crazy track asking farmers along the way where the cave was. Turns out we'd driven straight past it on the way to cave 1. The second cave was much cooler. We walked down a bush track to the caves and ended up rock climbing to the entrance of the cave. Because of wet season we couldn't enter but it was fun all the same.
We then trudged back up the hill and most of us decided to make a detour to the beach on the way home. The beach at sunset was beautiful and I'm glad we have a field trip there next weekend. After that we drove back in the dark, stopping at bukit bintang for dinner.
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