Overshadowed by the more famous, nearby Buddhist temple, Borobudur, as a tourist, I enjoyed the Hindu Prambanan temple complex just as much.

Another UNESCO World Heritage Site, Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple site in Indonesia and the second-largest in Southeast Asia after Angkor Wat.

With the main prasada tower soaring up to 47 metres high, a vast walled temple complex consists of 240 structures is today mostly in ruins. Only a few of those have been restored.

One big difference from Borobudur is that you can enter some of the temples here.

Very few tourists leave the main temple area. The rest I had almost to myself.

Somehow the jumble of original stone suits the confusing Hindu storylines of this vast site.

The temples were mysteriously abandoned near the half of the 10th century. 

In 1918, the Dutch colonial government began the reconstruction of the compound; however, proper restoration only commenced in 1930.

I’m quite certain it will never be completely restored.