Candi Jago: A Majestic Temple situated in Malang

Malang is the second largest city in East Java, Indonesia. The city is well known for its “mild” climate which is the very reason you can see different types of flowers grown in this majestic city.

Apart from the beautiful flowers and its known “Bakso” an Indonesian meatball paste made from beef surimi, here in Malang you can find one of its majestic temples named Candi Jago (Indonesian) or Jago Temple.

Jago temple is a 13th-century Hindu temple from the Singhasari kingdom in East Java, Indonesia, located about 22 km from Malang. The Nagarakretagama written in 14th century mentioned this temple as Jajaghu, as one of the temples visited by King Hayam Wuruk during his royal tour across East Java.

I was just so lucky to have an Indonesian friend who happens to be from Malang. He was the one who invited me to visit his place. In this blog, I would like to share to you details how you can reach and travel to Malang and visit this temple.

Here’s the thing :)

1. I am from Yogyakarta so I used train to travel going Malang. The train in Java Indonesian is very efficient and connected. It is very easy to travel from one place to another however sort of time consuming.
2. After taking the the train from Yogyakarta, I was picked up by my friend with a car. If I am not mistaken it was night time that I have arrived in Malang with an 8 hours of train travel.
3. You can reach this temple through motorbike and you can use google map however I highly recommend maps.me app. Just follow the map then tadddaaan!!! :)

The temple is just small where you can just climb and roam around on it. There is actually a sort of an entrance fee but I would like to describe it as “donation”. You just need to give a fair share :)

So if you would like to visit Malang don’t forget to visit this temple. The temple is just small but you can still see the details of carving from the very moment it was built.

I have used the route from Yogyakarta to Malang since I am from Jogja and calculating 7–8 hours travel time via land transport. Actually there are many ways to reach Malang since Indonesia is indeed a vast archipelago with many travel routes.

Photo edit credit: @Bryan Equiz