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Day 4: Lorong Rupa and Museum at Kota Tua, Jakarta

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Kota Tua, street of art and culture Call for Taxi -Silver Bird Group In this whole Jakarta trip, I will only tell you the truth within Jakarta . No luxury, no 5 star hotels review, no big car fetching me around. This will be a pure story of art and culture of Jakarta , ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to my Day 4 at Jakarta . This is my last day, fun exploring around here! Another traffic jam day! Tsk tsk, I decided to meet up with Tarra at Bentungan Hilir bus shelter, till the moment I thought it was easy, but it wasn’t. I ended up in a place where the taxi driver dropped me, and I didn’t know it was the right place. When I asked for Bentungan Hilir, the locals said this is the place, ask where is the shelter, they had this in their heads -- ????????? Darn, not again! Miscommunication, okay, go for another word – bus. Okay, they nodded and luckily enough, 5 minutes of walking from my long lost territory. Tarra was also stuck in the traffic jam, so this time; we took the bus

Day 3 - Botanical Garden and Bogor food,Jakarta

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In this whole Jakarta trip, I will only tell you the truth within Jakarta . No luxury, no 5 star hotels review, no big car fetching me around. This will be a pure story of art and culture of Jakarta , ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to my Day 3 at Jakarta . Well, guess I made you waited for a while for my journey to be continued. Sorry about that, I was busy with other writing jobs. Apologizes, and to thank for your continuous support, I would continue pamper you with few more blogs coming from another country. Stay tuned still! So day 3, guess I had to wake up earlier to take the taxi a further place, from: Dharmawangsa Hotel to Cawang train station (stuck in an hour traffic jam); Cawang train station to Bogor (an hour train journey) When we reached Bogor, I and the ladies took Angkot , a minivan number 3 to travel from Bubulak to Baranang Siang, the fare is between 2.000 till 4.000 Rupiah, and so the fare is reasonable. A 20 mins distance, we reached Jalan Ciheuliat, and we f

Day 2: Taman Mini Indonesia and Couch Surfing Gathering

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Day 2 - Taman Mini Indonesia and Couch Surfing Gathering Mini Indonesia In this whole Jakarta trip, I will only tell you the truth within Jakarta . No luxury, no 5 star hotels review, no big car fetching me around. This will be a pure story of art and culture of Jakarta , ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to my Day 2 at Jakarta . Well, I would say, Dharmawangsa Hotel does serve good breakfast: Western and Asia cuisine being well served, with all fresh ingredients being displayed in front of my eyes. I was told that lots of people like to have their meal while chatting in this quiet classy place, because they have beautiful swimming pool being indoor or outdoor, Jacuzzi, and no lounge with noisy live band interfering the relaxing time. Ms Tarra came to my hotel at 9.40am with a little gift from me - a lovely flower hairclip from Bali. Awww, I was happy that she gave me such a lovely souvenir! My souvenir from Tarra Oh ya, can you imagine how ‘ironic’ it was when Tarrra cam