footprints in the sand: One Fine Day : Kota Tua

Museum Bank Indonesia

This was a spontaneous trip. I really want to go to this place since like from long time ago but it's too far away from where I live and the vision of hard traffic that usually happen in weekdays make me more reluctant to go there.

But since I had nothing to do last week and I was too boring to finish my never ending laundry things, I decided that I had to make this trip happen. My previous plan was only to go to Monas since I got accompany by my son who being so nice to go with me.

I'm sorry to take one day off from your playstation console, buddy!

However after we visited Monas, we found this City Tour Bus at the exit of Monas parking. And I felt so excited and I didn't think twice to jump into the bus. The bus was big and nice and new. And it's a double decker bus, so if you miss London you can take this bus :)

And of course I sat upstairs.

The city tour bus has two routes, one to Kota Tua and the other one is to Kali Jodo. And I took the one who went to Kota Tua.

From Monas we stopped by the Museum Gajah and another stop was Museum Arsip. So if you planned to have a museum hopping, you can ride this bus.

The traffic was so easy since it's still Lebaran Holiday. It only took 15 minutes Museum Bank Indonesia that's located just across the street of Stasiun Kota. We decided to follow the crowd and here we were at Kota Tua.

Kota tua or old town Jakarta was representing the original downtown Jakarta. It's also known as Oud Batavia/Old Batavia, this was the first walled settlement of the Dutch in Jakarta Area. As I walked into the area I felt like I jumped to the past and I can feel how important of this area in the past.

I'm very glad to see the restoration and well maintenance of this place that turned this place into an attractive destination for tourists. I'm proud of it.

There were also some cafes (they even has this kopitiam here) and museums (museum wayang and museum fatahillah) in this area so you can really spend the day and enjoying the old Jakarta.

And since I had this weird addiction to old buildings I felt like a kid who went to amusement park and so excited to explore and took pictures of this beautiful site.

I promised myself that I'll go back another time to explore the museums and enjoying my afternoon tea while waiting the sunset here in Kota Tua.

Enjoy Jakarta.

Cheers, Dhidie