Day 01
Taman Mini Indonesia Indah and Bogor Botanical Garden
- Meet your tour guide, who will pick you up from your hotel at 9:00 a.m., and depart for Taman Mini Indonesia Indah.
- Drive southeast of Jakarta for about 40 minutes to reach the park at around 9:40 a.m. Situated on 250 acres of land, it gives visitors with limited time the opportunity to "experience" all 34 provinces of Indonesia. In this park, we will visit:
- Museum Indonesia: An amazing building decorated in Balinese style and architecture, with beautiful collections of traditional houses, musical instruments, traditional clothes, weapons, and ceremonies from all over Indonesia. There are also collections of Indonesian batik, wood carvings, old banknotes, and Indonesian rupiah coins.
- Traditional House of West Sumatera: Rumah Gadang, or Great House, with collections of the Padang ethnic people, the biggest ethnic group on West Sumatera Island.
- Traditional House of North Sumatera: See the Big House of the Batak people with all their collections. Batak is the biggest group in North Sumatera.
- Traditional House of Papua: Feel the different atmosphere inside the house with collections from the Asmat and Dani ethnic groups.
- Traditional House of Toraja: An ethnic group famous for its traditional death, or funeral, ceremony. This park has 34 traditional houses from all the provinces of Indonesia. We will drive you around the whole park to witness all the beautiful things of Indonesia.
- Continue to Bogor for the Botanical Garden at 12:00. It is about 60 km south of Jakarta and takes around one hour to reach by car.
- Arrive in Bogor at 1:00 p.m. and head to a restaurant for lunch. Lunch will be served at a typical Sundanese restaurant with Sundanese cuisine.
- Visit Bogor Botanical Garden, or Kebun Raya Bogor, at 2:15 p.m. It is one of the oldest botanical gardens of its kind in Asia, conceived by order of Sir Stamford Raffles and officially opened in 1817. This enchanting garden displays an impressive 17,000 species of plants, including rare orchids and the Giant Rafflesia from Indonesia and abroad. The entire grounds cover a vast 214 acres and also contain a cemetery. A monument stands in loving memory of Raffles' wife, Olivia, who died in Bogor but was buried in Batavia/Jakarta. To explore this gigantic botanical garden, you will be guided by a local guide.
- Return to Jakarta at 4:00 p.m. It is approximately a 1.5-hour drive back to your hotel in Jakarta.
- Reach your hotel by around 5:00-5:30 p.m.
