Exploring Kota Tua or Old
Batavia, the heritage site located between North and West Jakarta - continue with cocktail and light snacking
session at Segara Beach Club is actually a great idea for tourists coming to Jakarta for couple of days visit or local people that always wanted to do
something different, relaxing and easy. This idea came up from my girl Rike, she was so bored of going to the malls and doing the same weekend routines,
wonder what else to do. Thousand island or Pulau 1000,
Puncak, Bogor, Ujung Kulon, Bandung, Pangandaran beach are just few of getaway destinations
you can visit in the weekend. But have you ever imagine how it will be so nice
if only this city has one or two big parks where people can bring their family to chill
and play, relax, read books and eat hot dogs on the grass ?
Take busway from Blok M to Kota Tua, or drive
all the way to Kota Tua, start your tour from Bank Indonesia museum, Bank
Mandiri museum, Fatahillah square, Wayang museum, Toko Merah, Stasiun Jakarta
Kota, the port of Sunda Kelapa, Maritime museum, fish market, lunch at Café Batavia,
then drive to China town. I found it still nice to walk around the Fatahillah
square, watching some happy faces riding
bicycle, local tour guides and tourists, some pretty girls dressed up very nice
posing against the old building and photographers carrying their SLR cameras
trying to capture every single beautiful moments, angle, people and movements, street vendors selling various items from traditional food ( kerak telor,
otak-otak goreng, ketoprak and many more) , sunglasses, tshirts, paintings, etc.
The rumour has it
that sometime around August and September this year, the government plans to
hold a three-weeks festival in Kota Tua to attract more visitors. Not only festival, Jokowi
as the governor announced at least Rp 150 billion to revitalize Kota Tua area. Let's hope they will really fix Kota Tua since this place promising good opportunities for tourism industry in Jakarta.
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| Cultural dinner for APEC 2013 at Bank Indonesia Museum |
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| Pelabuhan Sunda Kelapa |
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| Sunda Kelapa Harbour... A must visit place in Jakarta |
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| Stasiun Jakarta Kota, was built in 1870 |
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| Kerak Telor |
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| Ondel-ondel |
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| Meet the hero, Noni Belanda, toy soldier, farmer and me !
Stop by at Café Batavia either for lunch or light snacking. We
recommend you to try Batavia orgy and poffertjes. Taste the sweet and sour
sensation from home made sorbet, layered with mix fruits and topped with
vanilla cream. Definitely one of the best ice cream in town and perfect
companion while Rike and me were gossiping about the guy in pink shirt sitting
just behind us. It was very hot and humid, 26 degrees, these 2 huge fans of life were in the middle of conversation about love life, fantasy, career and dreams. Rike talked about her dream man from Grey's Anatomy and now that she found Darren in her life, even though long-distance relationship is not always easy, but this guy completes her life. While I've been craving for a new adventure, to do another amazing and big big things, it's just me in new place with bunch of new people. Slowly working my way for it, in the mean time I'm happy my visa for Australia has just been granted, got few writing gigs and some other projects that I've been looking forward to do. Ooh seriously there’s still so much out there to see, win, experience, and get … Then suddenly Rike eyes caught this prince
charming walking inside the restaurant with his girlfriend, got two of us
melted, a little heart attack and
nose-bleeding ( kidding ) How a part of us wanted to kill or shoot the girl, but of course we were just joking. See that's the good thing of having girlfriends, you can practically share anything ( not boyfriend ).
It was almost 3 pm and we decided to move to Ancol. Saw some family picnic on the green grass, sharing food, love and laughs, little girls running naked in their cute underwear, young couples cuddling, it was all about happiness and simple joy being under the sun with the loved ones. We went to Segarra Beach Club, Rike ordered us martini, illusion, french fries and calamari while waiting for the sunset. Loving the breeze, the cocktails, and a great tour we did together since this morning...
Batavia orgy : Rp 89.000
Poffertjes : Rp 29.000
Martini : Rp 90.000
Illusion : Rp 90.000
French Fries : Rp 40.000
Calamary : Rp 40.000
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| Batavia Orgy & Poffertjes ( Cafe Batavia ) |
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| martini, french fries and illusion at Segarra Beach Club |
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| Having cocktails, girl talk, while watching the sunset at Segarra Beach Club. Loving the easy weekend. |
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| Meet the gorgeous Rike Rivanny. |
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