It was a bit more underwhelming than I thought, but still spectacular. Centuries of histories carved onto the bas reliefs, telling the stories of incest, sex, gambling, enlightenment and other things of human nature and spirituality. Beautiful.
Borobudur, temple steps
Borobudur bas relief, lower level, scenes of incest
Borobudur, middle level, bas reliefs
Borobudur, middle step, many Buddha heads were destroyed through colonisation
Borobudur, upper level, reaching the stupas, which are a visual representation of aura
