Two temples in Yogyakarta. Ijo Temple (Candi Ijo) has 6 tickets and tours to book; Mendut Temple has 2 tickets and tours to book. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
Candi Ijo does not sell its own tickets online. Entry is paid at a small booth by the car park, the fee is modest, and there are no timed slots or queues to beat. What you are really choosing is how to get up the hill, because the temple sits on a slope about 18 km east of Yogyakarta and public transport does not reach it in any useful way.
The most popular option is a late-afternoon tour that ends at Ijo for sunset. These usually start with one or two of the big monuments, typically Prambanan, Plaosan or even Borobudur in the morning, and finish on the hill as the light drops over the plain.
Mendut has its own small ticket office and the entry fee is modest, paid on the day; it is not covered by the Borobudur ticket, and there is nothing to reserve ahead. Most visitors arrive by car from Yogyakarta, about 40 km to the south-east, or stop on the way back from Borobudur, which lies 3 km to the west.
Online, Mendut appears only as part of wider day trips. The most common is a full day from Yogyakarta that covers Borobudur, the small temple of Pawon and Mendut in the morning and then drives east to the Hindu temples of Prambanan for the afternoon, with a driver, an air-conditioned car and sometimes a guide included;
