Jakarta/Bandung Trip

Now for my trip...

Jakarta/Bandung

22/12/2007-26/12/2007

Departure time from Singapore on 22/12: 1525hrs

(Actual time 1450hrs. Flight was delayed.)

Departure time from Jakarta on 25/12: 2305hrs

A promising trip, worthwhile.
Jakarta was great.

Bandung was awesome.

A long needed getaway after a hectic year and to end of 2007.

Splendid.

Reached the airport at 1.30pm on 22/12. The flight was delayed by 1/2 hour. Some problems with the check in system at the airport.

So much for rushing from Ngee Ann Poly to the airport. Pfft.

Aaannyywaaayyy....

I'm too lazy to blog about my trip in details. I'll put up pics instead to tell the story about my trip.

Lunch on board QR 626 was okay. Not too bad. Just that they've definitely got to improve on their service. I can't stand the cabin crew for that flight. It's like, they served the food late, there was no smile on their faces, they were rushing everything (I was barely halfway through my lunch when they start taking away the trays. SHEESH!), and when grandma asked for an orange juice, they gave this one helluva stuck-up look that I had second thoughts of getting an apple juice from them. GEE~

Howells, the flight wasn't along one. Before I had a chance to sink in the flight seat, have a good sleep, it was like another 20 mins to touchdown. -.-

Reached Jakarta and went through immigration. Some problems held us up. The crew on flight gave out white cards, but in the end, the cards are for the country's residents so nenek and cousin had to go change their cards.

After luggage is taken, and all that, we met Uncle Paing there at the airport. Waited for the chartered bus, hopped on once it arrived and continued our journey to the hotel. Bumpy ride I must say. Gosh, Indonesia has to work on getting more smoother roads. :x


Reached Sari Pan Pacific Jakarta at 7-ish. The hotel for our 2 nights stay in Jakarta was superb. The room.. awesome. It was a suite on the 17th floor (happens to be my fave number. oh and the whole hotel has 18 floors). Was totally impress with the big suite. It has a king size bed, making the bedroom way way big, a living room with a couch and 2 wing seats, a small dining table with four chairs, a real big toilet with a tub, a shower room and 2 door access (one from beside the main entrance and one from the bedroom) and a small pantry with a microwave oven, a stove, a fridge and a few cabinets.

Oh and Nek Mami's family had a room next to us so we had connecting rooms. Basically its like a HDB apartment. LOL.

Yes. Go green people.

After alot of gawking from looking at the size of the room, we headed out of the hotel to some relative's place and had to go through this dark alley and came across a DEAD BLOODY RAT! Apparently, it seemed like it just died because there was still blood and it wasn't dry. Guessed, some motorist in the area ran over it. EEWWWW!!

2nd Day
Anyway, the next day, after some well deserve sleep, we headed for a whole day of fun at "Dunia Fantasi" in Anchol. The theme park is nowhere near what you see in Escape Theme Park in Downtown East. Awesome time spent there.

That's the Merry-Go-Round and that's my sister which I'm clueless as to what she's doing.

So we took the viking, the rollercoaster, the merry-go-round. The viking is to DIE for! I mean its like a killer. Nothing compared to the ones you see in "pasar malams" where you pay $2 and all it does is go up less then 45 degrees. -____-
The viking goes up to almost 90 degrees from the ground. COOL OR WHAAATT!!?! The rollercoaster was also a good ride. Too bad it was a short ride.

Enough with the theme park. After the theme park, we headed back to the hotel because mum wasn't feeling well. Decided to have pizza hut for dinner, and I must say, it isn't the same like what it is here in SG. It just tastes..... different.

3rd Day
After a tiring day of fun and shrills, its now off to BANDUNG! The long awaited trip that I was looking forward to. Woke up bright and early, packed up, checked out of the hotel and off we go to Bandung. It was about a 2 hour trip. Had a good sleep in the bus.


We arrived in Bandung's hotel, checked in and went for lunch at a restaurant namely Dapur Cobek or something like that.

The food was okay. Not that great, but okay. After lunch, headed back to the hotel to have some rest and soon after, its off for some retail therapy. What I just need to ease the mind. Bandung is a haven for branded goods at prices that are unimaginable. It's like a "rejected branded goods" haven. Gosh, the stuff there....ARGH!

Almost all the stuff there are less than 100,000 RP which is equivalent to about S$16. Now tell me, why isn't Singapore like that?!?!?!?!?!?! The more the reason why I had thoughts of staying there. So grabbed some 3 tops there.

After about 3-4 hours of shopping, it was time to search for a good place for dinner. I didn't expect the restaurant, Kampung Daun to be wonderful. The ambience, SPECTACULAR!
It's among the hills and the tables are all around as you go up. And we sit on the floor cross-legged and the kitchen is, I don't know where. It's sooo cool. Since it was quite a wet day, the slopes and steps were kinda wet. Moreover, it's at night, so there is not much scenery but the ambience is still great.

Despite having a good ambience, the food wasn't great. Something about Indonesian dishes being too sweet. I mean even the lasagne, is sweet. -.- Well, at least the scenery could make up for the lack of good taste in the foods.

After dinner was done, had a look around the souvenir shop of some sort. I bought a super super cool Billabong jacket. It's reversible and I'm totally in love with it.

Ok enough of that. After a long day, it was back to the hotel for a relaxing massage. Gosh, what I really needed. A moment of pampering. Wonderful.

Last Day
T'was the last day and we checked out early. The flight was at night so we had loads of time to spare.

We went to Sari Ater, a place of hot springs. The water is so freaking hot at 40 degree Celcius. But real good. It was a public holiday, Christmas, so a crowd did go there. I just love the water. I mean it's healthy, natural, hot and real good.

After like 2 hours at Sari Ater, we headed for lunch. Another cool and cold place. Great scenery. The food is much much better. I guess it's because we were super hungry.

After lunch, headed to the strawberry farm. Too bad it wasn't the season for harvest. So there were no fruits bearing at that point of time. But I spotted one relatively red strawberry, alone. SO CUTE! I wonder how the strawberries get big as the ones seen at the supermarkets in Singapore.

It was finally home sweet home. Headed to the airport and I still didn't get a satisfying service from the cabin crew of Qatar airways. Eventhough it's a different flight and a different cabin crew, it still isn't very...... pleasing. Howells.

Great Holiday. Looking forward to the next one. (If there is another one.)

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