Jakarta, Indonesia Travel Blogs

Jungle Highs, AC lows thats the way Indonesia goes
Jan 27, 2008 (33 photos)

... to do any kind of proper research in Singapore, added to the fact that it was very much a last-minute decision, we entered Indonesia with little clue about where we were going or what to expect. Sometimes this has worked for us - Chennai was a last-minute ...

Days 49-50: Singapore to Yogya
Jul 11, 2008 (7 photos)

... me on an hour journey to the nearby Indonesian industrial island of Pulau Batam. From here, I'd take a budget AirAsia flight to Jakarta (Indonesia's capital.) Flying within Indonesia was much cheaper than flying to Jakarta directly from Singapore, FYI. On ...

Dirty Ol' Jakarta
Aug 30, 2005

... 's no point 2) Don't trust anyone except yourself- turned out I could've gotten a visa on arrival after all. The difference between Indonesia and Malaysia is striking. The first thing that hits you is the crush. There're a lot of people in Indo, and they ...

Last day in Jakarta, Heading off to Bali tomorrow
Feb 16, 2008 (3 photos)

... So the wedding band I should explain, especially so when/of you see it in my pictures you don't say.  'what??'  Indonesia is 89% Muslim (even though there is beef on the menu everywhere, haven't figured that out yet).  And a woman traveling ...

Jakarta Part 2
Aug 10, 2004

... violence for 30 years. Further unrest, the 2002 Bali bombing and last years bombing of the Marriot Hotel, mean Indonesia and Jakarta in partcular, have been tainted as terrorism hotspots, leaving the tourist industry shattered. Being aware of all this ...

Jakarta
Aug 9, 2004

... and pens 20,100, laundry 20,000, accom 110,000 Insurance claim: Camera 3,900,000 case 90,000 128MB card 331,500 rechargeable batteries 172,000 leatherman 880,000 mag-lite 170,000 rucksack 219,000 lonely planet Indonesia (bible) 284,400.

Swamp City????
Feb 12, 2007

... , however due to news reports about flooding I decided to spend more time in Yogya. An over night bus ride and we arrived in Jakarta with no problems, In fact i was so early to the airport I decided to take an earlier flight to Batam. Sometimes dont ...

My every need attended to
Jul 5, 2004

... eats with me. This may have something to do with my mangling of their language in my attempt to learn a bit of Bahasa Indonesia. However, Sasha the German shepard is my constant companion. Its awesome to have a big dog like her around to play with. The ...

Umm....now where?
Jun 16, 2004

Hello world citizens, I'm back in Jakarta for a month to do some research for the Centre for Strategic and International Studies www.csis.or.id I have realized that after August 13th, when Scott goes back to Taiwan after our travels in Thailand and ...

Jakarta - Day 187
Aug 27, 2008 (3 photos)

... and how I'm in the most geological active place on the planet, then I received the text message, really weird! Arrived in Jakarta just before 11am and walked the couple of kilometres from Gambir train station to Jalan Jaksa, found a real dive called the ...

Arrived in the Indonesian Archipelagio
Feb 15, 2008

Arrived safe & sound in Jakarta, Indonesia..  Though I can't say the flight from Taipei to Jakarta was as pleasant as the last one into Taipei.  It was a madhouse getting on the plane, shoving and pushing, and it only got worse once we were ...

Javanese Madness
Dec 5, 2005 (13 photos)

After a 7hour flight from Sydney we arrived at the airport in jakarta, Indonesia's capital city. At the airport were huge signs saying "Welcome to Indonesia, death penalty for drug smugglers" and immigration officers who stamped us in for 60 days, no ...

Ex-pat life in the Big City
May 20, 2004 (20 photos)

... , not counting my time in Ujong Kulon. I did quite a bit and these are some of the highlights: Museum of Indonesia: very large collection. Closes very early (1330 sometimes) so be there in the morning. National Monument (Monas): It was technically ...

The Big Durian
Jun 3, 2008 (1 photos)

... past.  Anyway, a protest can't get away if the square is fenced in, and they seem to have issues with protests in Indonesia.  Finally we found the bus to the airport and were soon on our way back to Thailand.  Before we left, though, we ...

Big city, bright lights - Jakarta
Feb 18, 2006 (19 photos)

... picked up at my wonderful Merdeka home stay and dropped off at the beautifully new Padang airport. In less than 2 hours, I arrived in Jakarta where my servas host Tiur was waiting for me. Tiur lives an hour away from Jakarta in Cicupa Raya. I am staying ...

Getting lost and penniless in Jakarta
Feb 7, 2006 (1 photos)

... of plans to build monorails and/or an underground system (they have neither), since the Asia financial crisis which hit Indonesia badly (9 yrs ago I think, or thereabouts). The real people I spoke to in Jakarta maintain that the government have put their ...

AW Air to Jakarta!
Apr 18, 2005 (4 photos)

... just before lunch and jumped on a bus into town and managed to find an OK guesthouse in no time at all! So the exploration of Indonesia's capital began...and our first real experience of SMOG! Big time! We got a real birds eye view of this from the top of ...

Transit - Bali to Jakarta
Aug 21, 2006

... was cancelled and we were put on the 6:30am. There are later flights but today marks the end of a week-long holiday season in Indonesia and the afternoon flights were all booked. We arrived in Jakarta at 7am after a two-hour flight (there is a one hour ...

Jakarta
Jun 24, 2008 (4 photos)

Jakarta

Dream it up and make it happen!
May 5, 2008

... we rode in last night on our moped from Jakarta. He said we were very lucky. That is the most dangerous highway in all of Indonesia he said. Three people in two separate accidents died that day we came over. He said the buses don't stop or even slow down ...

Somewhere between Bandung and Jakarta
Oct 7, 2008 (20 photos)

... and Hogi right now, watching the scenery pass from banana fields to dried hillsides to drive thru KFC and Starbucks. Indonesia is a country of contrasts. Extreme poverty, unbelievably wealthy, rice fields next to golf courses. I am enthralled, truly. ...

Lost in Jakarta
Aug 24, 2008 (7 photos)

... the airport bus I was hassled into getting a taxi I didn't want and got to Jalan Jaksa. This is the backpacker area of Jakarta but seeing as no backpackers really go to Jakarta it is a far cry from Kao Sanh road. I found myself a  ...

Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta
Oct 4, 2008

... northeast corner of Merdeka Square. About 90 percent of the Indonesian people are Muslims. Amplified chanting from the Istiqlal minaret, echoed by the hundreds of other smaller mosques throughout the city, call Jakarta's Muslims to prayer five times a day.

Jakarta
Dec 28, 2008 (18 photos)

... Nous avions eu une invitation d'un jeune couple pour aller coucher chez eux mais nous voulions continuer notre chemin. Jakarta n'est pas vraiment interessant. Nous aurions bien aimee les connaitres plus. Des gens fort sympatique. Des le lendemain ...

Jakarta, Indonesia
Mar 8, 2008

Jakarta, Indonesia

On the way to Bali
Jun 8, 2008

Just a stopover

Indonesia, boleh!
Oct 21, 2007 (28 photos)

... slightly, and he began to pass cars, bikes and other buses more and more frequently.  Let me divulge that all roads in Indonesia have one lane coming, one lane going, and three vehicles and a family of 4 on a motorbike abreast of each other at any ...

Indonesia eventually... this is the third ...
Oct 3, 2002

... street kids, overly friendly local girls and some monkeys chained to a pole. Bought a ticket to Medan (a city on north Sumatra, Indonesia) from there I will make my way though Aech to Palua Weh. Every time I mention Aech people go off into the be careful ...

Otherside of the world
Jul 5, 2009

Hello again. Just about to leave Jakarta this evening so i thought that i would let you know what we got up whilst we were here. To be honest we havent found that there is a great deal to do in Jakart. Seems more like a city for people to live and work, ...

2 wheels, 3 wheels, 4 wheels, 5 wheels...
May 20, 2007 (15 photos)

... . It was about the lies. An infuriatingly simple set-up which can only leave a bitter aftertaste for any visitor to Indonesia, which is otherwise such a welcoming country. We were half way up a mountain in a tiny village, the temperature had dropped ...