Jakarta History Museum (Fatahillah Museum)

Salimos de Jogya a eso de las 6 pm en una van que nos recogió en el hostel con la promesa de que el viaje duraría unas 10 horas para sólo 544 kms!!!! … o sea, estaríamos arribando a eso de las 4am…

La van en sí misma era cómoda y confortable, pero los caminos y la forma de manejar que tienen acá…. Es que es casi imposible …

Today, Jakarta is cloudy but we are so excited about it. This will be our first experience to visit the Museum Fatahillah.

... Toman Fatahilla Square, the best place to get a feel of the Dutch history of Jakarta (formerly Batavia). The Jakarta History Museum facing the café is worth a visit too for its vivid evocation of the colonial days. Birthday party for Susan's ...

... rides there. It doesn't quite compare to Cedar Point haha, but it was fun and a great way to spend an afternoon. - Jakarta History Museum and Old Town. We also got to explore quite a bit of downtown Jakarta and the museums and old Dutch architecture that ...

... seemed to have failed since,especially because tiggy lost her phone today (2nd day). Anyway, it took forever. We went to the history museum in Kotah, but quickly became bored - the onlyinteresting (Tiggy) / annoying (Tiggy & Susie after the 19th ...

... Talk about wall to wall people queuing to get their 2,500 Rp (NZ .30c or US .25c) ticket into the monument and National History Museum where at least being underground it was as cool as anything. At least we were allowed to the first level which gave a ...

... .  We meandered around the town square Fatillah Square, learned about history in Museum Fatillah (the Jakarta History Museum), and interestingly got a private tour at the puppet museum, Wayang Museum. Wayang Museum has tons of puppets made from ...

... that the train wasn't coming for 40 minutes - Lydia's mood worsened and she kept going on about how much she hated Indonesia and Jakarta even though we were only in the country 12 hours! I was just trying to take everything with a pinch of salt and ...

... (Square)’ - a large garden surrounded by important buildings and monuments. We firstly visited the ‘National History Museum,’ a broad and fascinating museum that just about covers the whole territory and history of Indonesia, with ...

... hour!). Having got a glimpse of what celebrities must feel like and feeling rather disconcerted and uncomfortable, we hid in the History Museum for a while. This is a jumble of random Indonesian items and photos with no real information but it was nice ...

... for Batavia, the train journey was cheap a mere 1000RP , definitely worth it. In the main square we visited the Jakarta history museum which shows paintings, furniture, the old justice meeting area and Portuguese canons. It also takes a walk through the ...

... presence in Indonesia. The centre of Old Batavia is the cobblestone square known as Taman Fatahillah and I visited the Jakarta history museum which contains lots of heavy, carved furniture and other memorabilia from the Dutch period. Just a 10 minute ...