Yogyakarta is Java's cultural heart, a sultanate city of batik workshops, gamelan and the living Kraton palace, with the UNESCO temples of Borobudur and Prambanan within an hour's drive. The surrounding highlands of Central Java, framed by Mount Merapi and the Menoreh Hills, shelter some of Asia's most poetic hideaways among rice terraces, teak forests and coffee plantations.
Javanese villas with private pools on a hilltop of teak forest, a mile from Borobudur and facing the temple at sunrise.
A 22-hectare garden resort on the northern edge of Yogyakarta with a lagoon pool, golf course and views of Mount Merapi.
