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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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Volcano   Bandung

Volcano, Bandung

 8 Reviews  Visited Bandung in early March 2008. The weather in this town is cooling which sits about 700m above sea level. Went on a day trip to Gunung Tangkuban Perahu(also known as the Mountain of the... 

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Beaches   Bali

Beaches, Bali

 26 Reviews  Located just south of Denpassar Airport and a short Taxi ride is Kuta Beach..I arrived at my accomodation..and after the flight and settling things at the hotel, I was ready for some relaxing time at... 

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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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Shopping   Bandung

Shopping, Bandung

 10 Reviews  upstairs there's a books shop. it's smaller than normal bookshop but the collection is not bad. mostly fiction. most of the books are indonesian. the price is the same as in other bookshop i think but... 

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Temples   Bali

Temples, Bali

 19 Reviews  The Holy Springs of Tirta Empul were founded in the ninth century. The springs are believed to have magical powers. As such they are an important centre for ceremonies and prayer. There are bathing... 

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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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Hot Springs   Bandung

Hot Springs, Bandung

 7 Reviews  It's actually a resort...u can choose to stay here or just take a one day trip since it's also at the same area as Tangkuban Parahu. There's a few ponds here where u can swim or just dip in your... 

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Day Trip   Bali

Day Trip, Bali

 11 Reviews  Bali is such a beautiful place with temples, mountains, lakes, volcanoes and beaches to explore. I was there last May 2011. The perfect way to go around is to hire a driver. I highly recommend Bram,... 

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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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Kawah Putih   Bandung

Kawah Putih, Bandung

 7 Reviews  On the way to the White Crater (Kawah PUtih) you will pass by Ciwidey, a strawberry town. More or less like Cameron Highland in Malaysia. Pluck your own strawberry here... it is about rp35,000 per kg.... 

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Parks   Bali

Parks, Bali

 14 Reviews  Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park is a great place for a night out at a restaurant with terrific views. But make sure you get there well before dark so you can have a good walk around. There is an... 

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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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Art Deco   Bandung

Art Deco, Bandung

 9 Reviews  I have just finished my small research about old streets and buildings in Bandung. I found that Bandung is one of the richest collection of Art Deco buildings in the world. The Dutch started to build... 

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Monkey Forest   Bali

Monkey Forest, Bali

 8 Reviews  Bali Zoo is home to more than 350 creatures. Situated in the cultural heart of Bali, the zoo is only a ten minute drive from Ubud. About forty five minutes from the tourist areas of Kuta, Tuban,... 

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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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Gunung Tangkuban Parahu   Bandung

Gunung Tangkuban Parahu, Bandung

 6 Reviews  Visit Tengkuban Perahu located at Lembang abt 45 mins drive from Bandung city. Enterance abt RP10,000. In this area u'll find the famous Kawah Ratu and Kawah Domas. BEWARE: Salesman selling necklace... 

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Sunset   Bali

Sunset, Bali

 11 Reviews  Firstly I have to say Ayana Resort is one truely beautiful resort and walking through the resort you can just start to imagine how beautiful the rock bar is. The bar is built on a rock on the side of... 

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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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Parks   Bandung

Parks, Bandung

 7 Reviews  Juanda Forest Park or Dago Pakar. The official name is Taman Hutan Raya ir. H. Juanda. It is a forest park, serves as a water reservoir for the city. There are some interesting parks for children or... 

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Water Palace   Bali

Water Palace, Bali

 3 Reviews  Taman Tirta Gangga water palace is a place of beautiful gardans and serene water-scapes. Located in the village of Tirta Gangga high on a hill overlooking amazing terraced rice fields, Taman Tirtta... 

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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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Kampung Daun   Bandung

Kampung Daun, Bandung

 2 Reviews  Kampung Daun is located up higher from Bandung downtown. It's an eating place designed as a 'kampung' or small village beside a stream. You can choose to sit in one of the booths for 'lesehan' where... 

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Markets   Bali

Markets, Bali

 4 Reviews  After a visit to Pura Ulun Danu Bratan, stop off at Candikuning market for some fresh food and gifts. The market is very much a 'tourist' market but with a few bargaining skills, you can pick up some... 

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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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Tea groves on the Puncak

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Taman teh, tea groves, or tea gardens can be found throughout Indonesia once the elevation is above 600-700m . Tea groves cover sometimes very wide areas and some villages located in the midst of very widely extended plantations are fully dedicated to the tea: growing, harvesting, processing, packaging. . . all is done for the tea.The biggest tea groves I visited were located in west Java, one near Jakarta on the Puncak hills (Puncak means hills. . . , but people call the area like that) on the alternate route from Jakarta to Bandung, between Bogor and Cianjur. The other one is south of Bandung, on the slopes of the Papandayan volcano.It is possible to visit a tea processing factory on the Puncak area; this factory is located near the “colour lake” (Danau Warna), on the left side a few kilometres after Cisarua on the road to the Puncak pass.We liked to hike in the tea groves far from...

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East Java: Coffee plantations

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East Jawa is home of great coffee estates, created during Dutch colonial time; the coffee is still grown and processed on big estates. Once the coffee grains have been picked and dried they are sorted manually by women in big warehouses (main picture); each individual coffee grain has been taken between the fingers of a woman. . . . On picture 2 is a coser look, with the heaps of coffee waiting to be sorted but the women stopped working, being distracted for a while by a foreigners family visiting the factory, and welcoming them with bright smiles.The coffee is dried outside on platforms and is “moved” several times a day for drying efficiently, giving this pattern we see on picture 3.Ah if you do not remember how coffee beans look like just before they are ripe, here are on picture 4.

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East Java: Kawah Ijen (2)

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The sulphur gathered in this volcano is used in a matches factory, and for chemical industry in Surabaya; it is just very amazing, that contrast between the middle age way of gathering (and treating the gatherers!) and thinking the use of this sulphur in “modern” chemical industry!On the main picture are again some hot sulphur flows, with their spectacular orange colour.The second picture shows the sulphur gathering place, far down on the flank of the volcano where vehicles can access to load the raw material.; you see the baskets and they will be soon weighted by a person representing the buyer for calculating what the gatherers will get paid.On the third picture are two young vulcanologists trying to breathe some air in the midst of vapour and other gases emissions; it is not pleasant to breathe that air but if you go down in late afternoon, you may enjoy a sunset over a sulphuric acid...

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East Java: Kawah Ijen

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Kawah Ijen is located very far East on Java Island not far from the Bali strait.Kawah Ijen is a particular volcano producing big quantities of sulphur; the man on the main picture is carrying blocs of sulphur he gathered in the crater located 3 hours walk from where he will bring them; in both baskets are about 60 kg sulphur he carried out from the crater (250 m climbing) in the tropical sun. Sometimes they can make two gathers in the day, but generally it is one; the workers are paid for what they bring (weight); they earned in 1996 the equivalent of about 1 U.S.$ per day. . . . . . . Pictures 2 and 3 are views of the lake located in the crater of the volcano; this nice blue coloured lake is a sulphuric acid lake! Don’t put your feet in there! Well, I checked, it is not that concentrated, but it can be called an acid lake, so beware of nice blue coloured waters in some cases.On picture...

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East Java: Hills around Bromo

by kokoryko

When driving going to Mount Bromo, you can admire the fields laid out on terraces on the very steep slopes of the volcanoes.The area is densely populated and every square metre which can be used for agriculture will be; the pictures show that the slopes are as much as possible used for growing crops; The last picture shows the road climbing up to the villages located on the flancs of Mount Bromo.

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East Java: Mount Bromo volcano

by kokoryko

Mount Bromo is one of the best known volcanoes of East Java and Indonesia in general: it is a spectacular formation, easily accessible by road, and there are even hotels located at the rim of the caldera.Mount Bromo is located in the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National park, a volcanic complex building mountains fifty km east of Malang, 150 km by road south of Surabaya. A good place to start the visit of Bromo is to go to the village located on the north-eastern border of the caldera; there are also hotels. From there is a view over the Tengger caldera, the Batok cinder cone, with the buddhist monastery at its base (picture 3), the Bromo crater itself (picture 4), and in the background, with fine weather, the Semeru volcano.Then it is possible to go down in the caldera, rent horses (picture 2) (myself, I was a bit tall for the small Indonesian horses) and go to the crater. Climb up the crater,...

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Central Java: The Sultan of Solo!

by kokoryko

One picture for this tip, but what a picture!!! ( ah, this picture is not from me of course).Just outside the sultan palace is (was, in 1997) a photo studio which proposes to tourists (mainly local tourists, I did not see lots of foreigners in Solo) to be photographed with traditional clothes. The whole K. family has been fitted up to make a nice picture; it took about 30 mn to make the pictures, so if you include the preparation time the photography was not very expensive; it is posed, formal, etc. . but also fun, no? I just can recommend if you visit Solo to look near the entrance of the Keraton for a photo studio which should still be there; there were professional photographs and the assistants were nice (it was like in Hollywood, with make-up girls, etc. . . ); well, nice souvenir from Solo, and I was Sultan (look closely I wear a kriss (a ritual knife)) for a short time, it is not...

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Central Java: Solo smiles

by kokoryko

Solo is a very friendly city, not too big and sprawling like Bandung or Surabaya ; it keeps a “provincial cachet” which is very pleasant.The markets are very nice to look at and I mostly liked the people and watch them doing their business with their wonderful smiles.The pictures have been taken in the market or streets of solo and the women, just have wonderful smiles, nothing to add.

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Central Java: Solo palace; dinner at the Keraton

by kokoryko

We visited shortly Solo, on a week end and had been “invited” for a dinner by the Sultan of Solo! Yes, the Sultan invited Kokoryko and family! Hahaha, it was a paying invitation of course, and the sultan was busy and one of his nephews had dinner with us!If you visit the keratin of Solo, there will be a person who will ask you if you want to have dinner at the palace; why not after all, Indonesian food, in Indonesian ambience, and with gamelan music and dancers. I do not know why, sometimes I just forget to make photographs and I have very few of Solo. On the main picture are the dancers of that event with two K. kids; the music was played by a gamelanorchestra, an orchestra composed of percussion instruments (mainly gongs and bells). The palace at night is not very photogenic, sorry. I do not remember what we had for dinner, but the kids, strangely remember the desert, a sweet jelly,...

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Central Java: Parang tritis

by kokoryko

After a day looking at the architectural marvels of Java, a bit a rest is a good thing and a tour in a horse drawn carriage on the beach is not a bad thing (main picture) . the beach of Parang Tritis is less than 40mn drive from Yogyakarta and waiting for the sunset there is a nice thing to do; I am not fond of beaches, but I remember I liked to walk on the black sand at sunset. So, carriage tours can be hired, but walking is nice as well, and later, some grilled fish in a small restaurant in the evening breeze is very good to finish the day. . . . Locals sell some souvenirs if you are in the mood. . . (picture2).

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