Amanjiwo

.. in Jakarta I told Jasmine about Amanjiwo.. it's a really cool boutique hotel located near Borobudur.. you can actually see Borobudur from the hotel..

I took this picture from my hotel room's garden terrace.. zoomed as close as i could to the temple..


the main pool.. you can see Borobudur in the background..


the plunge pool in my parent's room (room 30).. we stayed in two rooms.. my mom & dad in one room, risa & me in an adjacent room (room 29)..


the view from inside my room.. no pool..


view of the room from the terrace.. the whole room/villa is made out of stone..


me eating breakfast.. yummy!! nasi goreng.. banana & ricotta pancakes with honeycomb butter.. chicken porridge.. milk chocolate.. banana shake.. and free bottled water..


this is room 29 again.. you can see the open wooden door connecting room 29 with room 30 in the background.. almost all rooms have connecting doors like that.. this is where things get creepy... =)

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i woke up early on Sunday.. risa was still asleep.. so i decided to go to the next room (30), to see if my parents were awake.. i went through the connecting door.. but all of the glass doors were closed & the curtains were drawn.. they were still asleep..

then i noticed that the connecting door from room 30 to room 31 was open.. it wasn't open the previous day/night.. there are two wooden planks that lock each connecting door, one on each side of the door.. so for the door between room 30 & 31 to be open, it meant that someone opened the wooden planks from both room 30 and 31..

i wanted to see what the terrace of room 31 looked like, hehe.. so i went to the door & peeked inside..

when i did, i was shocked.. it was like room 29, but it was a mess.. there were dead leaves all over the ground, it looked like it hadn't been swept or cleaned in a very long time.. all the chairs under the hut, instead of facing outwards, towards the scenery, they were all facing inwards, towards the room.. the 2 lounge/sunbathing chairs were also backwards & facing the room too..

all the glass doors were closed, but i could see there weren't any curtains.. i was thinking of going to see what the inside of the room looked like, but then i remembered that curiosity killed the cat, hehe..

so i freaked out, closed the connecting door, closed the plank, and ran to room 29, and waited for everyone to wake up.. i didn't tell anyone about what i saw till we left, didn't want to freak anyone else out, but i did ask the front desk, why the door to room 31 was open.. they came up with a lame excuse, 'maybe the cleaning service, when they were cleaning the rooms, they opened the door to get from one room to the next'.. bull.. room 31 hadn't been touched for a long time.. anyways..

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one of my cousins stayed in Amanjiwo with his wife & kids after my stay.. i told him about what i saw.. his wife called a masseuse while they were there.. an old lady.. they told her my story & asked her what she thought..

she said that some strange things did happen there.. no one is ever allowed to use room 31, even if the hotel is fully booked.. there are 3 other rooms that aren't allowed to be used either..

she said that front desk sometimes gets calls from room 31.. always a woman's voice.. asking for coffee.. when that happens, they put a pot of coffee in front of the room.. when they take the pot later, it's empty..

she also said that some employees can 'see' strange 'people'.. in the lobby, there's supposed to be a large man.. there are rose petals that they put in a pond in the lobby every day.. they look pretty, but they aren't really there for the guests, they're offerings for the man..

she said that borobudur is an ancient place.. the location where Amanjiwo's built, used to be a sacred forest.. so that's why there are some unexplainable events.. nothing bad, just unexplainable..

----> true or false? i don't know.. no one else saw or felt anything.. and all i saw was a dirty room.. but the stories do make things more interesting, don't they? i still want to go to amanjiwo again though, it really is a beautiful place to visit..