ADIEU at Kediri Train Station

Our family was seeing us off at the train station.^^

Mom...my brother-in-law...my niece....and nephew....seen from inside the station.

The Jogjakarta bound train was arriving...

And the station headmaster was giving a signal to the approaching train...

What a sight.

Sept. 4. 2015

Going to Kediri, East Java

of course, as always, I went there by train. Wow..I didn't know that the underground at the Tugu Train Station in Jogja had this eery all-white tunnel.^^ 

The train departed from Jogja at about 2 am and arrived in Kediri at about 5 just in time for me to see the sunrise. 

Passing through paddy field along the way. 

Yes..it's my hometown, Kediri....with all of its charms. 

Good Morning, Suray.

Selamat Pagi. The sun greeted me as I woke up on the train....

Malioboro Express Train

I had no ideas as to what the management of the train was thinking when they decided to cover almost most part of the train in batik? Well, the good intention of using the traditional pattern (such as batik) to be incorporated into the train...is something that should be appreciated. I can't agree more. BUT....should it be like this?

I feel like....lost and lose my appreciation. Gosh..I almost couldn't tell which one's the door to the toilet and the one connecting to the adjacent compartment.^^ 

Thank God...the interior of the compartment where I got to sit was FREE from those cheesy wallpaper. I'd just hope that they would remove some parts of the wall paper....so as to ease the sore eyes of being exposed to such blaring wall.

Once again...I was glad that my compartment at Malioboro Express Train serving its daily service from Jogja-Kediri-Malang ....DID not Have the Batik pattern. 

Don't get me wrong, I love Batik pattern..as long as they are carefully applied. 

*Suray, enough complaining....^^. Nope...I was just rambling..ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Malioboro Ekspress

As the name suggests, this train serves customers to go from Malioboro (Jogja) to Malang in East Java. This service was the only one suitably, comfortably, relatively, and reasonably(???) well...not quite....affordable train for me. Why is that?

Since the ticket price changed 3 times during my 3-times taking this train. How absurd!!!

This one, staggeringly over-priced at Rp 200,000 (20,000 Won) for a trip from Kediri to Jogjakarta. 

And I got to buy 4 tickets!!!

oh, well...just closed my eyes and let the wallet did the counting.:)

yup, this train took me 3 times going back and forth from Jogja-Kediri-Jogja during my 3-week vacation at home.

*this is what I mean by how absurd the price was:

First week: Jogja-Kediri: Rp 150,000

Second Week: Kediri-Jogja: Rp 200,000

Third week: Kediri-Jogja: Rp 100,000

WHAAATTTT???? how is it possible that the same train with the same distance changed its price 3 times in 3 weeks??????