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Travel stories from Jakarta

Collection of 19 travel stories from Jakarta, Indonesia. Written by your friends on the road.

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Jakarta
2008-12-19, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: yogibeari

Indonesia: Southeast Asian country of about 235 million who are predominantly muslim. Transportation: Trains, buses, andong and becak (pronounced “bay check”). Andongs are horse drawn calesas and be...

 
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Jakarta
2008-10-17, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: siqueira

The capital of Indonesia......later more information about...

 
Traveler debbie2008

Batik, the traditional Javanese textile
2008-10-29, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: debbie2008

Batik (Javanese for “wax painting”), both the technique of textile design by negative, or resist, dyeing and the resulting fabric. Designs are first painted on both sides of a cloth in melted wax, tra...

 
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Java Island – Surabaya, Bandung and Jakarta – Indonesia
2008-09-03, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: juchem

Jakarta is the capital and the biggest Indonesian city, followed by Surabaya, and Bandung maybe is the Indonesian coldest city, a good place to escape from the burning hot weather from the others Indo...

 
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Jakarta
2008-06-30, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: GBrownlie

We spend a wonderful 10 days in Jakarta with our friends Scott and Sarah. They have a fantastic massive house complete with a driver, swimming pool, pool table and maid - it really was 5 star accommod...

 
Traveler mariat

Time to say good bye to Indonesia!
2008-06-22, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: mariat

I'm back in Jakarta after a brief few days in Bali and I hate that I have to leave so quickly! My flight to Bangkok is later this afternoon and I'll probably just have time to do some quick shopping a...

 
Traveler SEA1

Week 2 in Jakarta
2008-04-14, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: SEA1

We have just finished our second week in the awesome city of Jakarta. This week we worked in a different slum teaching English to children at kindergarten age as well as to teenagers. When we were not...

 
Traveler sea1

Week 1
2008-04-05, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: sea1

We arrived in Jakarta last Saturday night and were straight away hit with the hot, humid air of the city. After sorting out bags and money etc. we made our way to where we are staying. We got a huge s...

 
Traveler tichan

Day 8: Budget Summary – Going Home: Enroute to Jakarta!
2008-03-12, jakarta, Indonesia. By: tichan

End to end, our 8 days vacation cost about 600 USD/person. I managed to cut cost here and there, and at the end of the day – this is already about 200 USD/person lower than our original budget. I know...

 
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Being a tourist in Jakarta
2008-03-01, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: alfredo

After 8 days in Bali and the Gili Islands, 8 days of sun, beaches, scuba diving, temples, monkeys, bintang, snorkelling, etc., and during those days I met fellow travellers from all over the world, it...

 
Traveler jax2asia

Last day to shop
2007-05-29, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: jax2asia

Yes... more shopping! This time we hit a mall called Senayan Plaza and we were there from 1:30 until 7:30!!! Obviously we had better luck at this mall and because of it had to buy another suitcase thi...

 
Traveler jax2asia

Shopping, shopping and more shopping
2007-05-28, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: jax2asia

Today we were on our own and decided to take our time. We didn't leave the apartment until 1:30, watched some of our "knock off" DVD's in the morning and go figure the movie I was watching crapped out...

 
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Shop till we drop
2007-05-27, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: jax2asia

We started our day off early with some good ol' Soto Padang (soup) for breakfast with Ririf and Tante Wini. Then straight to Manga Dua an insane shopping complex aka indoor flea market full of knock o...

 
Picture from story Visiting Jax family and some shopping.

Visiting Jax family and some shopping.
2007-05-26, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: jax2asia

Martin here. After we had breakfast, we were picked up at the apartment by Tante Winnie and Rifrif (Jax aunt and cousin) and went to visit Jax Grandmother and Aunt for abit. After visiting, we all ...

 
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In Jakarta now
2007-05-25, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: jax2asia

Sorry everyone, this is going to be short and sweet as we have 5 minutes before this business centre closes. It is Saturday and yesterday was our travel day from Hanoi to Jakarta. We made it here saf...

 
Traveler bellaworld

Arriving in Jakarta!
2004-06-06, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: bellaworld

This is going to be the first vacation of the summer! Our first stop is Indonesia, and later on in August, we're going to Spain. On Thursday, Me, my parents and my best-friend, Alicia departed fro...

 
Traveler day1

Wedding Indonesian style
2005-09-15, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: day1

We are now offically on our way. After a few days of traveling mixed in with staying in plush hotels(unfortanetly all finished with now) we made it down to Jakarta for our friend Aarons wedding. W...

 
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The closest thing to Heaven!
2005-01-01, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: rossa

On the way to the airport in Bali I got talking to a young guy who had just finished 3 weeks training as a security guard with Securicor. He was most surprised that I hadn't seen the beach at Kuta and...

 
Picture from story Staying with a friend in Jakarta

Staying with a friend in Jakarta
2004-06-14, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: sbirch

After clearing customs, getting my visa, and our bags we met Marcia’s maid and family driver at the airport. They took us to Marcia’s vacation home in Jakarta. It was lovely filled with beautiful wood...

 


 
 

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