Jakarta Half Day Visit The Monument with Highlight City Tour

Start your day with pick up time at your hotel or place you stay in Jakarta area, first visit Merdeka square as a focal point for Jakarta City

Enter the Monument with lift up to the top and explore the museum inside.
The National Monument is a 132 m (433 ft) obelisk in the centre of Merdeka Square, Central Jakarta. It is the national monument of the Republic of Indonesia, built to commemorate the struggle for Indonesian independence. This monument is crowned with a flame covered in gold leaf which symbolizes the burning spirit of struggle of the Indonesian people.
lift down the big diorama as the large space of the national struggle history museum with a size of 80 x 80 meters, can accommodate around 500 visitors. The museum contains a collection of dioramas about ancient humans or prehistoric times, various kingdoms in Indonesia, up to the New Order era. The diorama is like a timeline that takes visitors to the Monas museum to dive back into the history of the Republic of Indonesia.

Visit the mosque and arriving we can take picture outside and entering the Mosque with other traveler in Joined tour by representative and explore the mosque, while entering the mosque we provides your clothes then take off our shoes due to of regulation. Istiqlal also called Independence mosque which is the largest mosque in Southeast Asia and the 9th largest mosque in the world in terms of worshiper capacity. after finished proceed to across the street on one hands off most experience then visit the old church.

After we arrived at Church then we just take some photos outside and visit. Cathedral almost opposite the mosque as a symbol of peace and religious tolerance. Cathedral is one of the old church standing before the mosque, so the area has in a story since Dutch era. This is neo-gothic church was consecrated in 1901 having been rebuilt at same location. Proceed to chinatown.

Visiting the chinatown from the old era, has been built the old pagoda 1650. Jakarta chinatown is one of the busiest and most fascinating. It is the largest Chinatown in the country, visiting the big market and its temple. The guide bring exploring and tell the story of the area. Chinese temple is dedicated by Tao, Confusion and Buddhist.
Then we meet driver to see the old town nearest area

Arriving at Old town Batavia see the Big canal, guide explains about Batavia then people call "Kota Tua" and it's a reminder of the centuries of Indonesia history dominated by Europeans. Then there are a lot of buildings are dominated by Europeans and chinese style building. Built in the 17th century as the town hall inside as a square for Dutch VOC colonial era. Then proceed to see the Puppet or wayang studio.

Still in the area of Old town, in the colonial era some of the buildings built for kantor/official, church, and bank, now it used for museum, studio and cafe.
One of building used for puppet studio is one of nice attraction to see how to make puppet and playing in 9 minutes shows if you still have time. if you are interested to have good souvenirs.

By going to the harbour we pass by the bridge, The present of Kota Intan Bridge has changed from time to time. At first this bridge was called Engelse Brug or "English Bridge" as there was a stronghold of British troops to the east of the bridge during construction period. In the years 1628-1629 the bridge was damaged due to the attack of Banten and Mataram troops. It was rebuilt in 1630 and changed its name to "Chicken Market Bridge" or Hoenderpasarbrug, because across the bridge there was a chicken market, for the residents of Batavia.

Arriving the Old harbour is not so far from old town, in it is the traders and sailors first come to city and melting and colonize. This is a biggest and old harbour in 15 century dominated by Asian ethnic before european. then this harbour is still active for logistic trading transport with the old boat Phinisi. Then this is the last program in 15 minutes back to hotel 45 minutes - 1 hour