Jakarta Travel Guide

Jakarta, the Capital of the Replubic of Indonesian is the archipelago’s “Shopping Heaven”. Anything you need will be fullfiled and satisfied here.

As a metropolitan city , Jakarta has complete means and supporting tools, cheap lodgings to luxurious starred hotels. Street vendors and wholesale shopping centres to comfortable and state-of-art plaza/mall.

As a tourism destination, (Jakarta ) offers many interesting attraction and various tourism objects, from a traditional foreign art performance , museum that kept the heritage of the appealing places to visit, such as :

Sunda Kelapa Harbour, Ragunan Zoo, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Dunia Fantasi, Taman Impian Jaya Ancol with its famous Sea World.
 

This blog sincerely this tourism article will serve as a guide for you who are and will be exploring Jakarta.

The Old Town Area

Jakarta is a Historical City and all of its old aspect are preserved finely at the Kota TUa (the native for Old Town). Visitng this area will be taking a tour back in time. There are, at least, around 120 historical building and sites, aged more than a hundred years, laid on he ground of this area. One of them is the Museum Sejarah Jakarta, which long ago known as the saadius, the City Hall.

For alln of you, attraction and arts lover, the front yard of the Museum ( Taman Fatahillah ) are often acts of venue for artistic attractionlike Betawi Traditional musical show and other singing shows, making the ambience of the Museum feels more alive.

Within area of the park, there are other Museum, namely the Museum Seni Rupa dan Keramik (Museum of Artistic Craft and Pottery) and the Museum Wayang Wayang (Traditional Puppetry Museum). Just as unique as the other, the building that now becomes Café Batavia,  just across the Museum Sejarah, is also more than a hundred years in a aged. The 24-hours earned the tittle of “The World’s Best Bar”from Newsweek Magazine in 1994 and 1996. To go around this neighborhood, you can rent a simple bicycle called “sepeda onthel” for Rp 20.000 an hour.

Also included in the Kota Tua region, is a place called Kalibesar, wich in the 17^th century was a famous trading center in Batavia, with the Jembatan Kota INtan as its icon. There is also the Pelabuhan Sunda Kelapa nearby, wich was already a wll-known harbor since the 12^th century and later in became government that ruled Batavia for more than three centuries.

To get to these places, you ca used the Bus wan and get off at Terminal Kota.

Taman Margasatwa Ragunan ( Ragunan Zoo )

Your visit this one of kind familit recational site at Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, would be a showcase of you love and care of animals, as well as very ideal place to play and learn more about the animal world.

TM Ragunan that used to be called Planten en diertuin, was founded in the 1864 at CIkini and moved to Ragunan in 1964, also has the crucial pasrt of being the lunugof the city, a conservatorium, a palcec for study and research. The zoo new has a collecting of more than 3500 animals coming around Indonesia and even broad.

Within the area TM Ragunn you can find Schmutzer Primate Cente, which is rehabilitation and nurturing facility for various species of primate, designed to have an open zoo concept. The collection kept in the place ae not only primates native to Indonesia like orang utan, owa Kalimantan grey owa Jawa, and siamang, but also primates originating from other areas of the world like Chimpanze and Gorilla that came from Howlettes and Porty Lympne, England.

As an educational support facility, this Primate Center also provides a cinema with more than 500 movies titles about primates.

For you who would like to visit TM Ragunan but having just a short period to spend in Jakarta, you might conside staying at Graha Wisata Ragunan, a comfortable and natural type of inn located not too far from TM Ragunan.

Taman Margasatwa Ragunan  JL. RM. Harsono, Pasar Minggu – South Jakarta, PH. 021 7805280

Betawi Cultur Village

If you wish to know and experience the culture of the Betawi ethnic group, which is the native inhabitants of Jakarta, come to Setu Babakan, South Jakarta. Here lays Betawi villages where all house building are built following concept of old Betawi town, despite all the modern used.

In this neighborhood at the banks of a lake in the area of Srengseng Sawah, you can enjoy the fresh breeze of wnd from under trees while enjoying some traditional Betawi small food like sotomie, kerak telor, roti buaya and even soto betawi. Here, in Saturdays and Sundays, Betawi cultural performances are often displays

 Taman Impian Jaya Ancol

Is the most crowde and familiar Recrational Park to the people of Jakarta and other cities surrounding it.

Once of you step into this recreational area for all ages, you will be straightly entertained by the various funs, adrenaline-boosting, gaming stie at Dunia Fantasi, the many species if animals with their fun attraction in the open-air site Gelanggang Samudera, the beach, an Art Market, a Fishing Pond and many more.

Forthose who wouldn’t want to leave the excitement of this recreational site, lodgings are available for a rest in a cozy ambience of the beach at the Putri Duyung Cottage, and Hotel Aston Marina Ancol. Moreover, to statisfy your appetite for Seafood  cuisines, you can always go to the many restaurant offering fresh Seafood cuisine along the Ancol recreational park. Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, JL. Lodan Timur, North Jakarta.

The Charm of a Thousand Island

Jakarta is known not only as a place for urban touring, but also a heaven to the lovers of marine tourism. The maritime charm that Jakarta offered is the Kepulauan Seribu.

Spread along the Jakarta gulf, Kepuluan Seribu can be reached within 20 minutes to 2 hours using Speedboat from Marina Ancol. This marine touring destination is a group 340 small island that offer a million ways of tropical warm and comfort. Lavishly lay upon clear blue water, where thaousands species of tropical fishes live amongst multicolor coral reef.

There is so many island like Ayer Island , Bidadari Island, Putri Island, Sepa Island nd so many other that you can go there and enjoyed the charm of a thousand island

All right guys, maybe that  from me thaht I can share it to you who want to get some vacation in Jakarta. See you.