Padang and Jakarta

It was 9 AM when our alarm clocks went off. We took breakfast, packed our bags and left together with our guide named Sukarno. 
First stop of the day was Anai Valley where we saw a waterfall that leads to Padang. Actually it quite disappointed me because I thought it would be more spectacular. In Padang we took an airplane to Jakarta.

From the moment we flew into Jakarta it was clear that it was more developed then all the other countries we had visited yet. But Jakarta also has four main problems. First of all there’s the population growth, each year the total amount of inhabitants of Jakarta grow with 5 %. Second of all there are lots of floods during the rainy season. Third of all there’s the air pollution that is one of the main problems in Jakarta and at last there is the copyright violation. In Jakarta the sales of illegal copied material is widespread.

We took a cab and went to our hotel named: “Morrissey Boutique Serviced Apartment”. It was the first time that  we had a room like this, well actually they were apartments. Clean bathroom and fresh linen. Some of us could really appreciate this and immediately took a shower.

After taking a shower we all went outdoors to take a late lunch at Café Batavia. A café that scored well at tripadvisor.nl. The food was amazing and we had an amazing afternoon.

As we didn’t want “a useless day” with only one thing that we had visited we thought it would be a good idea if we visited “Monas” also known as the national monument. It was huge and beautiful. Something the Belgian country could take a lesson from. This 137-mettre tall marble obelisk was more spectacular than the Atomium. The Monas contained 35 kg of gold.

After visiting Monas we wanted to sleep early so we took dinner and went to our room/apartment. It was a great day though we hadn’t seen much.

Cheers, Julie

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Sources:

-        https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta#Bevolkingsgroei

-        https://www.tripadvisor.nl/Hotel_Review-g294229-d1845751-Reviews-Morrissey_Boutique_Serviced_Apartment-Jakarta_Java.html

-        https://www.tripadvisor.nl/Restaurant_Review-g294229-d1182757-Reviews-Cafe_Batavia-Jakarta_Java.html

-        https://www.indonesiapoint.com/tourist-attractions/jakarta.html