Dieng Plateau, Java, Indonesia – 2026 – Part 1

Off to Gedong Songo Hindu Temples on the slopes of Mount Ungaran. These are from the 8th and 9th centuries. We had to walk uphill to the first one and keep walking uphill to the second and so on. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful spot.

  • Entrance
  • Map of all the uphill temples !
  • The path to walk back down the mountain
  • Landscape
  • Horses which you could rent but we preferred to walk. Our guide was walking back down the mountain and got too close to the horses and one kicked him. He was in a lot of pain for a few days, got him in the upper thigh.

We stopped at this spot for famous Java Spring Rolls. This is all the lady made was spring rolls. Let’s just say……….they were okay.

  • Famous Java Spring Rolls restaurant!
  • Famous Java Spring rolls

The Ambarawa Train Museum was next, they have 21 preserved historic locomotives and also does train tours hauled by 3 operational steam engines and a hydraulic diesel engine.

In Wonosobo we went to the Tambi Tea Plantation, it was a lovely spot with a store, restaurant and rooms to rent. We also walked through the tea leaves fields. Before we left, we sat outside and had some tea, I am not a tea drinker but when in Rome………..

  • Tambi Tea Plantation
  • Our cute little bus
  • The main restaurant where we had our tea
  • Ginger tea with something else but I don’t remember what
  • Part of the Tea Plantation
  • Tea leaf field with houses in the background
  • Tea leaves

I was really impressed with our hotel at this stop, it was quite unique. It would be nicer if I could remember the name of it ! Here are a couple of photos of the hotel and a couple of street shots.

  • Part of the Lobby
  • Part of the Lobby
  • Our room, all of our rooms were nice and we enjoyed them all
  • Flower Lady
  • Lunch anyone?
  • I really like this photo I took, I think it’s the sky

Well this was a bit of a long post but mostly my photos so scroll fast !

One more post for this region and then we head to Yogyakarta!

4 thoughts on “Dieng Plateau, Java, Indonesia – 2026 – Part 1”

  1. I think the train museum would have been fun. I liked your cute little bus as well – you can’t miss it in the bright pink. I have never had a Spring roll. I’ve had Chinese food, but not that much and it never included spring rolls. I like all the greening on the building and steps of the tea plantation. What was in the air over the restaurant at the tea plantation? A bird of some type? Your rooms were nice – modern looking. What was on the lunch wagon? I like that picture too Susan – the sky is interesting, quite a contrast to the bright green grass and the homes sandwiched in between in the middle third of the photo.

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