Mystical Yogyakarta


Art, human drama and mysticism. Yogyakarta is all this and more, as Alexandra Wong discovers in a chance encounter atop Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most volatile volcano.

I’M about to join my fellow travel companions when peals of laughter freeze me in my tracks.

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