Bogor Palace

... at all if it is the bus I want or need to take!!!  No AC. and rickety looking like most regular public buses in Indonesia!!! Again, I have to just hope that I am being directed on the right bus and that I will end up somewhere in Jakarta where I ...

... like the Rafflesia gives off the stench of a rotting corpse.   Next was the orchid arboretum which was nothing exciting I reckoned - only half it was flowering. The lawns around the palace were filled with hundreds of deer - and I mean, a ...

... empty plastic water bottles, scratching the labels off to make money for recycling.  Next to the botanic gardens is a huge white palace, fenced off with iron gates to keep the hundreds of deer inside that munch on the grass.  It's strange, but ...

Bogor - i. Kebun Raya - U can see the beauty of plants and Indonesian Presidential Palace from there too. ii. Gunung Salak - it is an volcano. But i got no chance to go to the hill top to see lava (6 hours hiking, too late for me to hike because ...

... Botanical Gardens (Indonesian: Kebun Raya) are located 60 km south of the capital ofJakarta in Bogor, Indonesia. The botanical gardens are situated in the city center of Bogor and adjoin the Istana ...

... . Next mistake although it was not my choice, was puting me up with the driver in the front seat. Very bad idea. Driving in Indonesia is like many other places in the world: terrifying, and anyone who has been lucky enough to have me as a passenger, may ...

... kids ask for photos, market vendors are polite.  We spent one day touring the City by foot and bicycle taxi.  Sleepy palace tour, batik paintings (wax,ink on cloth), Indo-cuisine at Legian restaurant, and at 10:00 all stores close and the ...