Semarang (Borobudur), Indonesia

EXPERIENCE A CRUISE HOLIDAY IN BOROBUDUR AND IMMERSE YOURSELF IN SPIRITUALITY AND ENLIGHTENMENT.

This commercial port, which exports the island’s most important products (including, of course, the beans for your next cup of java), is your gateway to two amazing religious sites. Borobudur is the largest Buddhist monument in the world – a 3D mandala (diagram of the universe), and perhaps a gigantic textbook to guide mortals striving to attain enlightenment. Prambanan is a complex of lofty, sharply sculpted towers honouring the Hindu triumvirate of Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer. Both religions travelled this way with Indian traders in the early centuries AD.