Jakarta Guide to Jakarta Tourist Information
An extensive Guide to Jakarta with unbiased tourist information, travel reviews, helpful hints and tips! Here at Get-Packing.com we give a detailed summary of tourist information in Jakarta on key facts, maps, pictures, weather information, attractions, events, shopping, restaurants, travel and much more.
Swarming with people, suffering with massive problems of pollution, gridlock, and over crowding, Jakarta is a city with a real image problem not helped by the presence of Islamic fundamentalism, and the ever present simmering rage that has seen the city erupt into massive riots and disorder going on chaos in the past.
Peel back the layers though, wander through the maze of crowded streets, and speak to the locals, and you find that Jakarta is a city unlike any other, it may resemble Bangkok with a really bad hangover, but the reality is fare more complicated.
The nine and a half million people who call Jakarta home and who swarm through the streets throughout the day live in a bustling, vibrant city that they love deeply, and where for every bad thing there are a million and one attractions.
Jakarta offers spectacular nightlife, is extraordinarily good value, and has more shopping centres, galleries and museums than you can shake a quivering stick at. Its an ideal point from which to begin a holiday touring Indonesia, and a place that you could explore all your life and still fail to find out exactly where you are and why you came.
You can get cheap deals on flights and accommodation to Jakarta throughout the year, and regular flights connect the city with Bali and Sulawesi, some of the other fascinating destinations within the country.
Facts for the Traveller:
Name: Republic of Indonesia
Capital: Jakarta
Area: 1.91 million Sq KM
Population: 234.9 million
Language: Indonesian, English, Javanese
Flight Time: 14 Hours from London
Currency: Rupiah
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