Prambanan Temple, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Prambanan Temple was built from about 850AD, less than 100 years after Borobudur temple. It just so happened that during this short period of time, a Buddhist dynasty in Java was replaced by a Hindu dynasty. To show the shift in power, a new temple for the new religion was needed and that’s how Prambanan came to exist.

Prambanan is a large complex that originally had 240 temples. Most of these were relatively small and were around the edges. In the centre is the main attraction – the three large temples dedicated to the gods Shiva the destroyer, Vishnu the keeper and Brahma the creator.