in Jakarta
I stayed with my classmate ronny in jakarta for some days...but I could not access internet, thus my blog was not updated.
This is the last walk in Bali...then we were heading to Jakarta...
Where Ronny met us up...
For everyone going to indonesia...Blue Bird Group is the best taxi, recommended by my friend Ronny, since they use taximeter...
Swedish colours on the walls...
We went by taxi everywhere...it is very cheap, seldom becomes more expensive than 50,000 Rupiah (40 SEK)...here passing my a famous strip club and hooker house...(also called Disney land for men).
Usually 20-22 year old girls dancing for horny asians...
This picture is taken from ronnys apartment, it is some buildingt build by a singporean or hongkong firm, that just left with the money they were suppose to build the buildings for...so now they jsut stand here...welcome to a corrupted art of the world...
We went to a nice indonesian restaurant...
And ate alot of nice food...
This was a sign at our hotel...but internet only worked in the lobby...
On TV people were discussing the crisis with south european countries...and the Swedish minister of finance was interviewed...
It seemed to be colder in Switzerland that here in Jakarta...
Some fact about Mr Anders Borg... so funny to see a swede on TV in indonesia...
A local store...on the street...
And a store where you can eat bats and snakes...
It was an interesting restaurant...
I asked what the name of the snake was that had a green colour..."green snake" they told me...so funny...they had most of the meat in the freezer...
And then deep fried it with alot of spices...its hard to tell the flavour of the meet...
I was recommended to try strange animals...I ate lizzard, snake and monkey...
We shared the food...
The streets here are very crowded and some times dirty...
We continued to "old town"...
This is an old house made by the Dutch who had the country for many years...
The house that was a restaurant had a nice interior design...
And seemed very fancy...
Many famous people were portraited...
This was the name of the place...
And this is some other famous place in Jakarta...looks like the white house almost...
We continued in a taxi to another part of the city...
Tryig to take pictures while sitting in the car...
We passed by many famous places Ronny told us...
And many malls, often owned by chinese people...and found the contrast between poor and rich very big here...outside walks homeless people, inside they sell luxurious gods.
This coffee is very expensive, taked from the shit from the fox I saw in Bali, and also in the Philippines last year...
Wow, a Taiwanese restaurant...
And a nice fontain in the mall...so cool...
I had to try this "swedish berries tea"...
It was ok...tasted like Lingon...I ended the first night by going to an interesting version of disneyland, but no cameras were allowed in there...
This pellar has gold on the top...very exclusive...
I also went here...didnt know it first, but I have a very good friend who works here...we gave them soe brochures for the GMBA program at NCTU...
Maybe I will come back here in the future...looking for a job...
Then we went for some snacks...
Before maknig a company visit at DHL...I met some people I knew...and met in surrabaya some weeks ago...
Then we took a taxi/company car...
To a near by restaurant...with Ronnys co-worker...
Interesting food...
And nice Crystal Chandelier...
It was nice...Ronny and this guy use to go out for lunch...
Some local dessert...
Then visiting a more local mall...I found cheap earphones from "Beats by Dr Dre..." but i didnt buy...
They also had cheap watches...I wanted to have batman stuff...
And found brass knuckles...
Then we went to eat some local food...
It was also nice...
And tried a very popular fish restaurant...
I drank cocnut juice...
And they had some wraps...
And nice bean look-alike pea...
Then we went out in the heacy traffic again...alt of traffic jam, and some interesting night market where people acctually were killed the same night...
This is the government house...
And here is the golden pillar again...by night...
It was hard to get a goodpicture of it, when going in the taxi...
Here is Jakarta by night...
And a famous club...or mall...
We also went to a nice jazz club...
With live music...super cool...and one of Ronnys favourite places...
I think my father would have liked it here...
I had a nice strawberry-ish drink...
And there was a pause...in the music...
But later they came back for more entertainment...
Celstine was tired...
Celstine was tired...maybe sheis not used to a life on the move...
Many business people seemed to come here...
More traffic jam, every day...alot of cars and scooters, Japan is said to hinder an Metro to be build, in order to earn more money from the car industry...Indonesia is de facto one of the largest countries in the world, and Jakarta is also said to be one of the largest cities in asia...it became a political issue, and in the end...its all about the money...many cars here are japanese...
Same taxi company...It is high security here, at every mall people are checking my luggage, and some times they are checking the cab, incase someone is smuggeling something.
And some flood...
This is the ocean side...of Jakarta...
The most expensive appartments in indonesia!...
Here, Ronny use to hang out...
And new appartments are getting built...
It is very dirty in the ocean...dirt from here reached bali later...thats why it is so dirty there too...
Nice gardens in the area...
More taxi driving...
And some nice indonesian food...
Mmm...even the rice is good...
Alot of food...soe times spicy, but not this one...
We went to a mall with some dutch resturants...
That were selling the expensive coffee...
It was alot of mashed coffee beans inside...
And some half pipes...
This night I went to another "disney land for men", the one I saw the first night from the taxi...
We also saw some local desserts at a mall...
I bought some speciality...
This is some fried stuff...
And some pancake - rösti mix...
Later we saw some entertainment in another mall...
And some guys walking in the middle of the road...Jakarta is the city of contrast...not far from the most fancy blocks, there walk around street kids and people sleeping on the street...
This is a little lake inJakarta with exclusve houses around, but still on the other side was some ghetto look-a-like area...
And some boats...
Its nice...but I like the lake in Beijing city better...in the Hutongs...
This is some exclusive peace of property...
And this is a statue near the postw office...in central Jakarta...its a strange city...not that many places to walk around...mostly taking cars everywhere...
And a big church...
Ronny use to go here...I think he is catholic...
Its always nice and cosy in a church, especially if is looks like a cathedral...
A sign of modernity...
And there is a mosque...there are alot of muslims in indonesia...
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Here is the cathedral from outside...
This is a very common drink in Jakarta...
It was kind of warm outside...from here we took the taxi to some other place...
Many people working on the street...
Here is actually some bus station or similar, but Ronny prefered taxi...
And this is some famous place...dont remember what it was...
Ronny has this nice outdoor swimming pool near his appartment, they also have a hotel in the same complex...
They omitted many floors in this building..."4", "13", "14", etc...
We could not only see the ocean, but also some themepark from Ronnys appartment...
And bigger parts of the city...people receommended us to go to some mountian outside the icty...but the city is so bigg so it would take ceveral hours...
Later on that night, we flew back to bali...
In order to catch the plane to our next destination...I tried to get rid of all my cash...
It was raining outside...
I bought some stuff in the tax free, after we passed the customs...but then with some asian logic...no iquids could enter the plane, if it was not without alcohole...so stupid...so I have to finish my coke that I bought...
I wonder if i ever will understand asian logic...now im on my way to "the land down under"...
Even if my goal was to go by boat, it is easy to find cheap flight tickets...perhaps I should have stayed longer...and visited more islands...but not im heading south...I was invited to Shanghai later in february with other classmates, not sure what I will do...either that, or go to the country that is said to have the best treeking in the world...or visit both...
