Other villas include the Residence villa, which has breathtaking views of Menoreh Hills; the Garden Plunge Pool villa, with an outdoor terrace and private plunge pool; and the Executive pool villa, set in lush gardens, with a spacious rain shower bathroom and an outdoor patio.
We dined at the Patio Colonial House, which includes a patio deck and a restaurant with world-class cuisine. You can walk along a corridor stretching between the restaurant’s Joglo and colonial buildings. There is also a pool beside the Patio Colonial House, just in case you want to take a dip while watching the exquisite sunset and the view of the majestic Borobudur temple.
Our meal of traditional Indonesian food was superb. First on the menu was a tasty kupat tahu magelang composed of rice cakes, tofu, bean sprouts and cabbage with peanut sauce. Then we had the soto padang empal kering, or noodles, bean sprouts, cabbage, tomatoes, leeks and onions. Ketchap manis and sambal accompanied the soto. Menthol geol-geol was composed of delicious duck with a green curry sauce. Dessert was scrumptious, called the trio cantik jelita. On the plate was a large scoop of vanilla ice cream in a wafer-like cup, to be eaten with a cake made of eggs and brown sugar, a delicacy made of pandan paste and flour with coconut sugar inside and cantik manis, a flour and sugar pastry with food coloring. Surrounded by the high ceilings, spacious tables, and elegant interiors, the meal was the proper antidote to our tiring day of touring Borobudur temple.
