Fun things to do in Special Capital Region of Jakarta

Hi,

If you like history, Old City of Jakarta might interest you. As well as National Museum. Moreover, right now the museum held an exhibition of Indonesian traditional music instruments.
You can go to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah if you want to see Indonesian diversity cultures. And in there you can also enjoying water theme park.
Another theme park is situated at Ancol Bay area.
While shopping spots are disperse in Jakarta. Manggadua and Tanahabang are good places to shop many things in reasonable price. And for luxury shopping center you can come to Plaza Indonesia or Senayan City.
Jakarta is safe to be explored by bus and public transportation in day time, as long as you don't attract people with your expensive belonging. Use Transjakarta bus for getting around. In the late night use taxi, Blue Bird and Express are the two advisable taxi company.
For accommodation, hotels in Jalan Jaksa are known for their cheap fare.
I hope you enjoy Jakarta.

For you all day Saturday, you can join tour to Pulau Seribu. Pulau means Island, Seribu means Thousands. As your expectation, you can do swimming there.
please check this website for more information
http://www.pulauseribu-wisata.com/main.php?wisata=bidadari

If you done visiting downtown. You can go to Muara Karang Fish market located in North Jakarta. You better go in the afternoon or diner time when fresh fish just unloading from the boat. It is interesting busy main fish market in town. You better use short and sandals since it is wet and often flooding surface, it is not the most clean and hygienic place on earth, not to mention fish smell. Go watch fish trading and you can always buy fish or shrimps or anything you like and bring your fish to local barbeque restaurant near by fish market. There are more than dozens, but I always go to the upfront fish restaurant called Sedap Malam, it is easy to find from the parking place. They have awesome mango chilly and other various chilly made from peanut, soy-bean and tomatoes and fresh chili, shrimp paste.

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Also known as Elephant Museum ~~Museum Gajah~~ this museum kept the collection of statues, ceramics, clothing, miniature of traditional houses, traditional weapons, musical instrument from all over of the islands of Indonesia.

A new building adjacent to the old museum just establish. The new building offered new experience to the collection of gold and silver, an archeological-site-like of Sangiran, where the fossil of the first monkey-like man found :) and some more.

The Heritage Society offer free tour in English, French, Japanese and Korean. Just email: museumtours@heritagejkt.org.

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The pool complex has renovated and now the theme is Atlantis Adventure. There are shallow pool for children, a stream-pool, a lazy pool for adult, a wave-pool where the scheduled-wave-once-per-hour and some regular ones.

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The national monuments is one of Jakarta's landmark. You could take an elevator in the monument to have a bird-eye view of Jakarta. The elevator could take 11 people, but there is one man operate it, sit in an office-chair that made a quite big different on the capacity. Please be aware that on weekend or public holiday, the queque is long. On the summit, there is no place to sit down, people could only be able to stand to enjoy the view.

A museum where history showed in dioramatic scene is available on the underground level.

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This open-air museum was a cemetery. Many years ago, the government ask the inheritance of the death to move their relatives remains, keep the tombstone and publish this place as a museum. But then, not of all remains was able to be removed, some are still lies there.

The cemetery particularly was for the Dutch. No wonder, there are lots of angel statue, bible-like, church-like tombstone other that the big tombstone with "Here Lies..." on it. The tombstone of Mr. Roll, the founder of Stovia the first medicine school in Indonesia lies here. There were also the tombstones of some famous pastors here. Two of Indonesian tombs was here ~~Gie, the activites and Miss Ribut, the singer.

This park-cemetery-museum usually a great location for photographer and models to wary around :)

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A walking distance from Maritime Museum is the Menara Syahbandar. This is a five-storey tower, was built at about the same time with the Maritime Museum. From the windows of the tower, the harbour-master could see the harbour and make necessary arrangement for enter-exit of the ships.

Now, the tower is a part of the maritime museum. On its wall hang a lot of pictures of the harbour and ships from the old days.

Some cannon was kept and displayed at the front yards of the tower.