Sunday, April 11, 2010

Visiting the old "Ancestors" at Taman Safari Indonesia

On the last long holiday, Good Friday, in 2 – 4 April 2010, my family went to visit Taman Safari Indonesia which is located at Cisarua, Bogor. To mitigate the crazy traffic going to Puncak, especially on the long weekend, we went there starting on Friday morning.
At 10 a.m we arrived at Cimory restaurant that serves dairy products such as milk, yoghurt, steak and sausages as their specialties. The food was quite ok, although personally I would think that it is a bit overpriced. There were many visitors there, just like us, who tried to get an hour break of driving to Puncak. Luckily the traffic was not that bad at that time. Another special thing about Cimory restaurant is that they have a small farm containing several cows.
After having Friday pray at nearby mosque, we went straight to the motel. Luckily my father-in-law has already booked 2 nights of staying at Telkom motel for us. We arrived there at 2 a.m, and just spent the rest of the days in the motel.
Early in Saturday morning, we went to visit Taman Safari Indonesia, which is only 2 – 4 km from our motel hence we got there just in time before the busy hour of Taman Safari Indonesia. If my memory serves me right, then the last time I visited Taman Safari Indonesia was 10 – 15 years ago during my elementary or junior high school. The fun thing of visiting Taman Safari Indonesia is that from our car window, we could see animals in the outdoor area (not in their cage), although on some animals we were not allowed to slow our cars and open the window, such as lion, tiger, bear, etc.
The first animal that we saw was a bunch of elephants; unfortunately my daughter just went to sleep as soon as we entered the elephant’s gate, hiks. (the main idea of this trip was to show my daughter of many and varied animals that Taman Safari Indonesia), therefore we have to spend half an hour to wait for my daughter to wake up (forcefully waking her up, hehe..) before we could continue with the trip.
After spending almost two hours of sightseeing using our car, we went to the recreation area in Taman Safari Indonesia. In there, you could see many shows and attraction, starting from small zoo exhibition, penguin exhibition, reptile/snake exhibition, train ride, kids area, restaurant, acrobats show, Orang Utan show, Tiger show, and our favorite was Dolphin show where we spend the rest of the afternoon there watching clever Dolphin showing their attractions.
At 6.30 p.m. we went back to the motel feeling exhausted, tired yet content and happy. I would not mind going back there again sometimes.

How to get there: Take the Jagorawi toll road, exit at Ciawi toll gate, and then just follow the main street going to Puncak. Taman Safari Indonesia is located at your right side approximately 10 – 15 km from the Ciawi Exit gate.

Cost: Entrance Fee for adults is Rp 60,000 while for kids is Rp 50,000, Car is Rp 15,000 (price for Indonesia and international tourist is different)

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