Together with our hosts we drove to Museum Nasional (history museum) in central Jakarta, and thereafter all four of us had lunch at a Padang restaurant near Pasar Baru. After lunch Uno and I separated from our hosts and took a bus to Kota, the old Jakarta, and walked a bit around. Beer at Cafe […]
Car trip to Kebon Raya Bogor (Bogor Botanical Gardens), Puncak Pass (where we had lunch), and Taman Safari Indonesia (a drive through zoo). Dinner in the evening at a Malaysian restaurant in downtown Jakarta (near Senayan). Dutch cemetery at Kebon Raya Bogor. View from restaurant at Puncak Pass. Taman Safari Indonesia.
Today we took the Parahyangan train service to Jakarta, departure 12:45, arrival 16:00, 15 minutes behind schedule. Ticket price was Rp 40,000 each. I decided to take a quick trip to Paberik Kopi Aroma (Aroma coffee factory) before departure, and took a becak from the hotel while Uno was on internet. The coffee factory dates […]
Today we negotiated with a taxi driver outside our hotel to take us to Kawah Putih (White Crater), which is about 40 km south-west of Bandung. The trip lasted from 11:00 to 18:00 and cost Rp 400,000. Kawah Putih is 2200 meter above sea level (according to my GPS), and is a sulphuric lake inside […]
We started the day by walking from the hotel to the Asia Afrika conference building museum (Gedung Merdeka). From Gedung Merdeka we walked to the city square (alun-alun), where a big, relatively new (2004) mosque is situated. Uno searched for a place to fix his camera; a memory card was stuck inside. So we took […]