The only real sight we went to see was Jakarta‘s old town. Though there wasn’t much to see as most of it seemed to be closed and falling down we still had quite an eventful visit. We tried visiting a café on the edge of the main square but it seems than even in Indonesia if a place has been visited by the Dutch royal family then it will still be too expensive for us!
Whilst we were walking around the main square in the old town we heard some commotion going on from one corner. Of course being on a development plateau level with high school children we rushed over to surround what was going on and chant “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT”. Well we may not have actually chanted but we did want a better view. It seemed that a group of teenage has aggravated a stall owner somehow and they were now facing off in the street. The face off quickly turned into a throwing competition with bottles, sticks and metal poles flying up and down. Eventually the kids ran away and after following the crowd for a bit we realised that they weren’t going to be found again.
I was going to claim that we saw the national monument but Pete tells me it doesn’t count if you only take a picture as you fly fast in a Tuk Tuk. Talking of driving round in Tuk Tuks, even after going through all of Asia the driving in Jakarta was the most crazy we had witnessed and their Tuk Tuks were the funniest looking.
The main reason we didn’t get to see much else was because we were having such a hard time trying to book our tickets to get away from there. In the end we managed to sort ourselves with the aim of going to a volcano, Mt. Bromo, that you can usually climb to the rim of at the eastern end of Java.
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