Indonesian architecture through my camera

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Hi there,

I am happy to see this community growing and getting first members writing decent posts…
Firstly I found this community advertised, if I can use this expression, by @storiesoferne couple of months ago. Erne is stopping by at every my post and leaving a constructive comment as well. I am to have follower like him! I remember once, he invited me to do a post in the community. That had to be before two, three months and if I am not mistaken I promised him I will do that. At that time, I was writing from my Dubai trip and as Dubai is known to be architectural gem it is not a coincidence that he came up with an idea. Anyway I didn’t decide for Dubai today, but for something else; different kind of architecture.
I have to admit, I don’t have any knowledge about architecture, just like to observe it. Taking architecture into account when planning my travel is one of primary things when picking destination. Sometimes I decide to go out architecture in the wild, like Africa, other time architecture is in first plan when going somewhere in Europe for example. There you study every bridge, church, how the city center looks like, modern part of the city, etc. The most common way with me is combination of both, nature and some architectural note on some days. That was the case with my travel in Indonesia back in 2017 as well. I did a lot of my activities in nature and a lot was shared from this part already, but I did saw a lot of interesting buildings as well. Some of them are typical for this country, some are very different from region to region and the others are World class architecture also under different Heritage programs. With the last written I mean Borobudur temple which is World famous and it really makes impression on you. As far as I know it was built around 8th or 9th century. They used mostly stone and there was a lot of it necessary to build the largest Buddhist Temple in the World. I am sure construction was interesting, but I don’t know much more. Maybe somebody else from the community will know more and I would be happy to read it in the comment section below.

Let that be enough written for today. Those who know me already know that I am better expressing myself through photos than writing :)

Before photos I would just like to say hello to @discoveringarni. Everywhere you are, something good will happen, so wish you all the best running the community. I am sure you two are the right two persons and there is bright future ahead Architecture and Design.