<noembed><nolayer><div style="position:absolute; left:0; top:-100; display:none;"> On top of the temple:<br> Java picture - - Chedi bells galore! *But what&#39;s the point of writing about Jupiter, Saturn, &#38; etc? Well, I wrote all of that &#39;coz a lot of tourists here (who already saw Angkor or Bagan) ends-up a bit disappointed upon seeing the small size of Borobodur as compared to the 2. Indeed, they&#39;re disappointed &#39;coz they were expecting a big ruin complex (since it&#39;s dubbed &#34;the 3rd biggest&#34; by the guidebooks &#38; travel literatures) but eventually finds-out that it&#39;s pretty darn small! - A distant 3rd, so to speak. I guess the travel literatures ought to stop using that title &#39;coz it&#39;s a bit misleading but that&#39;s what sells. And even if that title is quite true (since it&#39;s indeed the 3rd biggest Hindu temple in S.E.-Asia), the travel literatures ought to also include the phrase - &#34;a distant 3rd&#34; so that tourists won&#39;t be expecting a vast ruin complex like Angkor &#38; Bagan. </div></nolayer></noembed>
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