Bogor the historical side
We started our day with a hearty breakfast at our hostel.
Today’s plans were visiting Borgor, accompanied by a guide.
Bogor is situated 54kilometers South of Jakarta. It is located near the main road from Jakarta to Bandung. Next to it you find the railway line Jakarta-Bandoeng that still has the original station since 1873. But today our transport is a little motorbus so we won’t be able to see the station.
It was a pleasant ride, we could see the different parts of Bogor will we were driving to our first stop.
The guide told us that Borgor has a historical part with some monuments, which we were going to visit first. In the afternoon we were going to visit “the green side” of Borgor.
Back to the first stop! We arrived at a place called Batavia which is the capital of Dutch East Indies. We went here yesterday to eat something but we didn't saw a lot.
I immediately noticed that Netherland had a big influence on this town. You can see a lot of old-colonial buildings and now I get it why our guide said that the first part was rather historical!
There were a lot of different architecture styles but I didn’t like all of them. We walked through Batavia and we all decided to hold on for a moment when we saw the Town Hall dated 1710. It was such a beautiful building with a lot of colors. We got thirsty from our promenade and took a break at the ‘Batavia café” (where we went yesterday). I took a closer look today and saw that it was furnished like the 50’s, even the music and pictures were adapted in theme.
Last thing we did in Batavia was visiting the Sunda Kelapa port, this reminded me of the Batavia café where we had a drink. When we saw this place we thought that time stood still.
It’s a port where workmen still used the techniques of 50 years ago. They carried heavy bags of tapiocaflour and wood and walked on little shelves to reach the boat.
After the historical part it was time to discover the green side! We started a long walk in the botanical gardens. We walked for about 2 hours and my feet were hurting a lot but the beauty of the gardens made me forget my pain!
Our guide told us that the botanical gardens are one of the largest in the world, they have a surface of 110 hectares with 12000 different sort of plants. Most of the plants are exotic, they even have more than 3000 different sorts of orchids. My mother would really like this, she has 6 orchids at home but this is nothing in comparison with what I saw today.
Now it’s time for a little rest I will give you an update later this day!
xoxo Kimberly
Sources :
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g297706-Activities-Bogor_West_Java_Java.html
https://www.travelmarker.nl/bestemmingen/azie/indonesie/bezienswaardigheden/bogor.htm
Town Hall