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Travel Blogs from Jakarta

Traffic jams,Museums and Monuments.

A travel blog entry by mrsmac

... I was told.
We had lunch at the Cafe Batavia on the opposite side of the square. This was upstairs in another colonial building and had great atmosphere. Hundreds of framed photographs of famous people and posters adorned the walls and the toilet was dimly lit with '50s style fittings and more photos. The fish and chips were good too.

Our last stop for the day was back in the centre at the National Monument. This is called Merdakar or Freedom and celebrates ...

Arrival into Jakarta

A travel blog entry by mattcannon

I arrived into Jakarta and was instantly rather shocked by just how undeveloped it all seemed! Perhaps this is a rather naive attitude to have and demonstrates a quintessentially 'Western' ideology of the 'east'..I will happily admit that I had no real idea of what to expect from Indonesia and arrived pretty open minded and prepared for anything. Even so it was still a HUGE shock. As pristine as Singapore is, Jakarta seemed the polar opposite. I collected my ...

Crossing the Street in Jakarta

A travel blog entry by aushiro

... in the middle of a unrelenting swell of waves. There are no crosswalks in Jakarta and the the traffic is incessant. I was sometimes wondering, where are all these people going? But in the end, there is just sooo many people here (try 12 million) and everyone is always on the move. We finally got pointed in the right direction, but was still faced with an obstacle of crossing the street. You might think this is funny, but I never thought crossing the ...

Jakarta

A travel blog entry by alanhopkins

... covered in cling film for you to deliberate upon. Classy. Watched an episode of SOA which did enough to warrant a second episode viewing methinks.
Arrived bang on time in Jakarta. We had a hostel booked for once so we dealt with the taxi driver and got the bare minimum you can pay for a taxi (�1.75). He got lost on the way so we got to see more of the city than expected. I had expected much worse given what we had heard, it ...

Dealing with street children

A travel blog entry by rishabhagat

... and they get punished if they dont bring back enough money.

So before going out onto the street I thought the whole process was simple and wondered why every street kid didnt just get picked up and taken to an organisation like KDM. It is actually far more comlicated and the social workers/rescuers need to understand the children first. It seams like the street kids were all family to each other and just leaving the rest of the street ...