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Shopping/Malls   Jakarta

Shopping/Malls, Jakarta

 16 Reviews  It is in FX Mall Sudirman Street, Senayan area. We slide down in transparent whirling tunnel from 7th floor to 1st floor, I never try this but it's worth to try, it takes only about 12 second. During... 

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Taman Mini Indonesia Indah   Jakarta

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta

 36 Reviews  Minaret of Mosque, as viewed from the sky ride. The waiting line for the sky ride was as long as any I've seen at Disneyland. Most ot the people in-line with us were Indonesians from various areas... 

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Taman Impian Jaya Ancol   Jakarta

Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, Jakarta

 30 Reviews  This is a water world at Ancol Marina. A really nice place to take the kids as they`ll have a really great time. There is many different swimming pools here and many different water slides. Also the... 

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Thousand Islands   Jakarta

Thousand Islands, Jakarta

 11 Reviews  Pulau Macan in the Thousand Island chain is a gem. The scene is totally mellow geared towards conscious fun. Snorkeling trips on living reefs, paddle out to their deserted island, get a traditional... 

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Old Batavia (Kota)   Jakarta

Old Batavia (Kota), Jakarta

 29 Reviews  Batavia is the old center of Dutch Jakarta. It is in a rather pitiful state as many of the historic buildings are crumbling in front of your very eyes. The desire to annihilate everything related to... 

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Central Jakarta   Jakarta

Central Jakarta, Jakarta

 51 Reviews  The "Jalan Thamrin" in Jakarta is one of the main streets and so the architecture goes higher and higher to the clouds! On of central points - is the Bunderan HI -here in rainy weather from taxi -... 

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National Monument (Monas)   Jakarta

National Monument (Monas), Jakarta

 28 Reviews  This is very nice tour for a good weather day. From the top of the Monas, the "Monumen Nasional"- you can see a round up view of Jakarta -maybe at good weather you can see the coastline of the Java... 

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Museums   Jakarta

Museums, Jakarta

 37 Reviews  Jakarta has many museums to be explored. Unlike many museums in other countries I have visited that provide audio guide or tour guide to explain exhibits and stories, museums in Jakarta are... 

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Sunda Kelapa   Jakarta

Sunda Kelapa, Jakarta

 29 Reviews  A simple wooden boat able to navigate the sea of the Indian Ocean which is known to have large waves. Bugis fishermen in Makassar, South Sulawesi, large seas using a wooden boat called Phinisi... 

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Taman Safari   Jakarta

Taman Safari, Jakarta

 6 Reviews  Being from South Africa why would I wanted to go on Safari here. Anyway I decided to see what Taman Safari was really about and I have to say I really enjoyed myself. You can buy carrots before you... 

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Istiqlal Mosque   Jakarta

Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta

 8 Reviews  My guide left me and told me to meet him again downstairs in his office. I could now walk in the big wide yard on the east and south side of the building and admire the high minaret (picture 1) and... 

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Ragunan Zoo   Jakarta

Ragunan Zoo, Jakarta

 5 Reviews   Pusat Primata Schmutzer is designed as an example for the world how to keep primates. A lady , miss Schmutzer , was facinated what John Aspinall did for the big apes and the way he interacted... 

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Bogor   Jakarta

Bogor, Jakarta

 6 Reviews  If you want to go on a safari but can't or don't have time to go to Africa, you can still do it right here in Jakarta. Located in the Puncak Highlands near Bogor about 75 km south east of Jakarta,... 

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Thamrin Street   Jakarta

Thamrin Street, Jakarta

 7 Reviews  At Thamrin Street roundup Salamat Datang the Bunderan HI is now (2012) some new to see: The "HI" is now the "Hotel Indonesia Kempinski" - see the Photo: Of course: 5 Stars and all around with... 

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South Jakarta   Jakarta

South Jakarta, Jakarta

 5 Reviews  This classy neighborhood in South Jakarta is home to many Jakarta's wealthiest and is also heavily populated by expats. In recent years, Kemang has seen a staggering growth of restaurants, cafes,... 

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Sports-related   Jakarta

Sports-related, Jakarta

 5 Reviews  Indonesia has over 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country on earth. Majority of these volcanoes lie along the topographic crest of the arc's two largest islands - Java and Sumatra. The... 

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Surabaya Street Flea Market   Jakarta

Surabaya Street Flea Market, Jakarta

 2 Reviews  I'll throw my western view over this street.... Hmm this is called antiques street by some other vt'ers or flea market. I would call it craftsstreet. The antiques in this street are made in the... 

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West Jakarta   Jakarta

West Jakarta, Jakarta

 8 Reviews  Here is the oud-Batavia (Old Jakatra City). This street was main bussines and activity in colonial era. a plenty of buildings relic is stands here. Along the Kali Besar river. You must see Kali Besar... 

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Taman Ria Senayan   Jakarta

Taman Ria Senayan, Jakarta

 2 Reviews  Compared to the Fantasy Land in Ancol, Taman Ria Senayan is a much smaller amusement park. The park is designed to offer a quick escape in the center of the town, therefore only a few rides are... 

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Senayan Area   Jakarta

Senayan Area, Jakarta

 1 Review  There is a new mall in Senayan area called FX Entertainment. In here you can try sliding from 7th floor to first floor in 12 seconds! It's an experience where you will certainly scream from the top... 

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visit GORILLA in Schmutzer Primates Center

by meiyergani

If one visit Ragunan Zoo, head on to Schmutzer Primates Center, dont miss to see GORILLAs. The western lowland gorilla is one of the largest non human ape in the world. An adult male Gorilla can wigh up to more than 200 kilograms. They found only in Africa, living in groups in low and highland forest. Gorilla's diet consist mainly of fruits and fresh leaves. They have extreme good smell, sight and hearing. The male gorilla is famous for his chest-beating display, which is used to intimidate rivals or to impress the female, even for playing. Gorilla is a protected species.

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Enjoying Jakarta

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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...

day tour to Pulau Seribu

by putri_jogja

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

Muara Karang Fish Market

by aj03

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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National Museum

by cekeysh

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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Atlantis Adventure - Ancol

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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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National Monuments

by cekeysh

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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Kebon Jahe Kober Open Museum

by cekeysh

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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Menara Syahbandar

by cekeysh

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.

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Sunda Kelapa Old Harbour

by cekeysh

Sunda Kelapa is an old harbour in south Jakarta, it is not using commercially anymore. But it is worth to go there and enjoy the hot sea air, while seeing how the capital city was long time ago.If you want to cross to the thousand island (pulau seribu), some boat service also available here.

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Mandarin Oriental Hotel Jakarta  Jakarta

 7 Reviews and 150 Opinions  Mandarin Oriental is one of Jakarta's original luxury hotels; and remains to be one of its best. ... 

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The Dharmawangsa  Jakarta

 7 Reviews and 75 Opinions  I loved staying at this hotel. Even though you can tell that it's not the newest property it is... 

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Hotel Mulia Senayan  Jakarta

 14 Reviews and 411 Opinions  My family was planning to have a new year's eve here in Hotel Mulia, so we went there and I've once... 

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Q:  hi VT's though i've been traveling a lot locally and just got started for Asia travels, this is my first time to join this forum,... 

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A: Hi, What activities are you thinking of? When you are in Jakarta you can go snorkeling or diving at the Thousnd Islands (Kepulauan Seribu). Lots of other places for... 

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