Our Journey

We celebrated by going to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (Beautiful Indonesia Mini Garden). Taman Mini is located in the East of Jakarta, quite far from where we live, but since we were determined to have a frugal anniversary celebration, I thought Taman Mini would be a cheap and fun solution. Why? Taman Mini has a cheap entrance fee of Rp 9000 (US$ 1), easily reachable with public transports, we can take lots of pictures there since this mini garden is not that small, 165 hectare to be exact. And we heard there’s this must-try , world’s best Pecel Madiun there. Taman Mini also has an IMAX theatre, museums, bird park, they have everything ! Sadly, we could not walk to visit everything that Taman Mini has to offer. We left exhausted but very happy at 5 pm, just before the closing time.

Good choice, Taman Mini sure was fun !

This is the ultimate Pecel Madiun, it’s located near Taman Melati. Great for your tummy and your wallet. Lunch there costs us just Rp 34,000.00. This pecel is so famous that you’ll see all sorts of awards on the wall and pictures that the owners took with former President, the late General Soeharto.

Lots of traditional houses to take pictures in, like this wooden house from North Sulawesi. Actually we’d like to take more pictures, possibly in every house from every province ! But there were so many kids running around at that time, it was hard to take photos

I wonder if there were termites living there…


This is hubby trying to break a fight ><

And we had our most fun in...

Transportation Museum !!

This is an actual old train used during the war circa 1930.

An old 19th century spotlight.

Hubby was chasing his train

This is a cabriolet aka oplet , a form of public transportation used in Jakarta from the late 50s to early 70s. I want one !

Hubby on a strange looking pedicab, a tandem pedicab?

I never knew hubby was a fan of Indonesia’s transportation minister ! He insisted that I took pictures of him with Mr Freddy Numberi’s cut out

This was a seriously fun trip. We were too tired to so we decided to watch a movie called T-Rex in the IMAX theatre.

We made a short visit to the Pecel stall again to have some snacks and icy cold drinks before going home.
For those who wants to go to Taman Mini by public transport, this is our route : we took Busway from Bunderan Senayan , transferred at Dukuh Atas 2 heading to Ragunan. From Ragunan we took an angkot (S 15A) that goes from the Ragunan Zoo to Taman Mini ! Now I think we should visit the zoo ^^ .