Jakarta Shopping Tour

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Jakarta has more than 170 malls and shopping center throughout the city. You can hunt your dream products, Indonesian crafts, textiles and fabrics, or do a market visit and take a glimpse about retail and department stores in Jakarta.

In other words..
You will have a chance to be a shopaholic in Indonesia’s shopping paradise!

But please… don’t waste your time to visit all malls in Jakarta. You don’t want to travel all over the place, go to the wrong malls, and ends up stuck in traffic, don’t you?  With us, you definitely will go to the right place to shop. We will help you to arrange a perfect schedule, where, and how to find specific things to buy during your short visit in Jakarta.

You just need to sit back and relax.
Save your time, and leave the shopping-plan to us.

Duration             : 7 hours or customized
Starting time      : 9 AM for morning schedule
Meeting point    : Hotel Lobby in Central Jakarta
Price for Jakarta Shopping Tour: start from 79 Euro for single booking

Included:
1. Guest Pickup only around Central Jakarta
2. All Transportation during the tour
3. Custom itinerary based on shopping list
4. Snack and Mineral Water
5. Private Guide Service

Excluded: Personal Expenses, Meals

Need more information about Jakarta Shopping Tour? Please send us email to : tahu@jakartawalkingtour.com or simply ask us on here : Contact Us

It is better than taxi

“I like it more than taxi!”

It was my friend from Austria, Bernd, told me about what he felt when he had a ‘bajaj’ ride in Jakarta, (bajaj is a vehicle with three wheels and using gas as its fuel). He was happy when the wind coming through bajaj’s open window and had a ‘pleasant’ moment when the driver showed his driving skill, always make a quick takeovers, in every possible way, lol. Bernd is Martin’s friend. They are working together in Austria, and got a chance to come to Jakarta. I must say thanks to Martin for recommending me as a guide in Jakarta. Without him, I could not show how fun bajaj ride is, and Bernd would not know that most of the driver in Jakarta has a fabulous driving skill. 😀

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Natural Air Con on Bajaj

Although the main street that we should pass was closed due the Jakarta Marathon event (I was not happy with this by the way –red), but I tried to take another way to go. Grabbed a taxi, and start to tell the story about Jakarta inside it, while enjoying the traffic jam. At least, I could smile when Bernd got excited when he saw one motor bike with three passengers on it, hahaa..

Our walking tour was not only about visiting some touristic places or museums, but more about sharing the story. I let him walked around local markets, taste local snacks, and discussed everything which is not the same with what usually exist in his home town. There are so many differences. That’s why I can tell him so many stories. Everything that we saw during walking tour had its own story, why and how, what and who, unlimited possibility for type of questions that can arise.

I might not have every answer, but in each question that I can’t answer, it has something to be learned about. In the end of the day, it was not Bernd who learn something about Jakarta, but it’s me who got a lesson. Thank you for sharing the stories, and someday I want to say “you bring holiday in the dark tunnel” in the right place!

 

Bernd Austria Guest Jakarta Tour Review

My mind wandering about snow in Jakarta

There is a lake that you can see 3 meters below clearly. There is Mozart House, there is Arnold Schwarzenegger birth place, and there is Martin’s hometown called Austria, a country in Europe continent which has 7 million people live in it. While I and Martin had a walk around Jakarta, it is not only I who told the story about Jakarta, but he also took me to ‘fly’ to Austria, his beautiful hometown.

Jakarta Tourist AttractionsThank you for sharing and made me wondering about Vienna, the clean lake, and also the snow. Now, it is time for me to share about our walking tour in Jakarta. So, I still remember the weather on that day. It was extremely hot, and even I who used to that kind of sunlight almost every day here, still sweating all over my body. But, surprisingly Martin liked the sun. He told me that his friend should be jealous because Austria is very, very cold around October, reaching five degrees during winter time.

So, he didn’t mind with the heat, and I took him to Jakarta Old Town Square and Chinatown. We stop in whole sale market and see a lot of souvenir and gifts, something that Martin can’t find back in Austria. We didn’t buy any, but see many. I enjoyed the crowd and let Martin know that we had a popular gem stones among men, fried snacks (banana, cassava, tofu), sweeten fruits called “manisan” (mango, ambarella), and local snack from coconut called “pancong” cake.

After strolled around the crowd, the local music performance, and people of Jakarta, then we wrapped the day on Jakarta city land mark, Monas! Thank you for being a part of Jakarta walking tour, and I was happy to help him know better about the city. See you under the same sun!

Martin Austria Guest Jakarta Tour Review

 

Another hello from Belgium

For many times, I felt like I was not the guide, but my guest became my guide instead. So did when Luca, a friend from Belgium (but he is also Italian who speaks French) who strolled around Jakarta on that sunny Sunday with me.

He did explained history and correlation between Indonesia and Europe in the past time. I learnt a lot about how people live in Europe as an union. Most of the country in Europe had one currency (Euro). People can be born in one country, but can live and work in another country with less difficulty. As an Indonesian who needs a visa or permit to go to a far-far-away country, I think it is a good system. People can live anywhere without any limit. That’s a good spirit, isn’t it?

Okay, back to our walking tour, we meet some school boys who were practicing English. They were asking and trying to communicate with Luca, and I should thanks to Luca with the patience he had back then. It was two groups of them and took a while for him to interact with them. And, don’t forget about the sun, that shines bright (“like a diamond”) we had back then!

Jakarta Tourist AttractionsThe tour wrapped with a new route (for me it was a new one!), a back way to go to the hotel around City Walk Jakarta. Thank you for showing me the back way, Luca! With the trees, gentle wind, and beautiful mosque we passed, it was a good afternoon to say good bye and it might be another hello in the future.

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Luca Belgium Guest Jakarta Tour Reviews

A ‘dadakan’ tour with Sarawak friends

“Dadakan” is we are. One of the Indonesian – English slang that reminds me of two friends, Caroline and Carmen from Sarawak, Malaysia. “Dadakan” means something that comes up so suddenly in an unexpected situation. Because they were contacting me one day before the tour, and we promised to meet on McDonalds in the next morning, without me, as a guide, knowing their faces or what they really look like. So, yeah it was an unexpected tour that brings a lot of surprise in a day.

I wasn’t planning to go to Sunda Kelapa Harbour, but when Carmen asked “Can we go there?”, my answer was “why not, yes we can go to the harbor!” We take a bajaj (a vehicle with three wheels) ride and climbed to the highest point of Syahbandar Tower. Up there, we saw how the Batavia (Old Jakarta –red) looks like, and learnt the reason why the tower had an important role in the past time. We also went to Maritime Museum and take a shot inside the beautiful architecture.

The funny thing is when we were going upstairs, one security personnel followed us and said, “Do you want to have a photo-shoot up here?” Oh my… he thinks that I – who bring a camera along the way – am a photographer, and Caroline and Carmen will became my photo models. I think they are just too gorgeous, so people around us feel ridiculous, why such beautiful ladies come to the northern part of Jakarta, hahaa..

Another ‘ridiculous’ moment was when I took them to Chinese market. It seems like, they just followed me eating along the way. I did like Chinese food, so did them, but the thing was I eat more, like I will never go there anymore, lol.

After all, thank you for coming to Jakarta, I would like to meet and eat Chinese noodle with you all next time. See you around!

City Tour Jakarta Reviews : UK Guests

It always nice to meet Fra and Neil. After food tour on last July, this time they invited a friend from Scotland, Calum, to enjoy walking tour in Jakarta. No word can describe the happiness we had on that day, just let the pictures speak for itself. (:

 

Thank you Fra, Neil, and Calum. Baci baci!

City Tour Jakarta Reviews : Sabah Guests

It was a ‘familiar’ experience when I help Bae, Suriati, and Julia to explore Jakarta on late August 2015. They all came from Sabah, Malaysia, which has similar customs and habits as me as an Indonesian. When Asian girls are visiting new places, we should take a photo or selfie, or both. So, we did it, cheers!

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Lucky for us, when we visited Jakarta Old Town, it was Sunday and it means it is a car FREE day. We can walk, stop, or do anything we want in the middle of the street. LOL.

Suriati is the best. She was ready to walk around Jakarta and use her Go Pro, Polaroid, and phone for one main reason, taking tons of photos!

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Yes, she is beyond awesome! :’)

Here are some places we visited:

On that day, Jakarta is in the hottest ‘boiling point’, it was 34-35 Celsius and we were walking without umbrellas, only Bae had her red-royal-hat on her head. So, we decided to finish our walking tour on Gurame Fish Soup. Wait.. How could I finish a tour with a fish soup?

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Bae with her ‘royal’ hat :p

Yes we could, we stopped at a Chinatown food court and ordered tekwan (fish soup from South Sumatra) and one big bowl of fish: Gurame soup. A friend of Bae recommended her to order Gurame Terbang that I’ve never heard of. Terbang means Fly, and Gurame is a kind of fish that has large fishbone, and we can eat the whole fish if it is deep fried. I help her to order the closest Gurame that we can found, so Gurame Soup it is!

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Then, our walking tour closed by a fresh and yummy fish soup. Thank you for coming to Jakarta friends, hope you enjoy it all and have a good shopping experience in Jakarta! XoXo

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Bae Malaysia Guest Jakarta Tour Review

 

 

Jakarta Cultural and Religious Tour

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With more than 17.000 islands, one year is never been enough to see and ‘taste’ the whole Indonesia. But, for a start, let’s experience the whole country within 4 hours tour through walking!

In Jakarta Cultural and Religious Tour, we will share and show you a glimpse of Indonesian heritages, cultures, and religions through walking.

Here are Jakarta Cultural Religious Tour‘s highlights :

 ~ Explore the largest mosque in South East Asia : Grand Mosque Istiqlal ~
~ Visit the largest Catholic Church with neo-gothic architecture in Jakarta ~
~ Take a look of one of the oldest Protestant Portuguese Church in Jakarta ~
~ Observe Chinese Temple established since 17 century ~
~ Pass through some historical buildings, palace, and city landmark of Jakarta ~
~ Taste local snacks in old local market ~

In addition, we will share our story about diversity and local habits
that you might see in our fun-walking. 

Duration             : 3,5 – 4 hours
Starting time     : 9 AM for morning schedule, 2 PM for evening schedule
Type of Tour      : Private Walking Tour with Jakarta Local Guide*
Meeting Point   : Hotel Lobby in Central Jakarta or National Museum Bus Shelter
Price List for Jakarta Cultural Religious Tour:
> 59 Euro for single booking
> 49 Euro per person for two people’s booking

Included :
1. Guest Pickup only around Central Jakarta, applied for min. two people booking
2. All Transportation during the tour (taxi or tuk-tuk but mostly walking)
3. All Admission Fee
4. Mineral Water
5. FREE Coffee Break Service in a Local Cafe
6. Jakarta Private Guide Service*

Excluded: Drop off, Personal expenses

*Note: there will be a chance that you will join the tour with others, especially for one person booking. However, we promise to keep the group as small as possible. No more than five people in the group.

Need more information? Just click contact us here : Contact Us or send us message to : tahu@jakartawalkingtour.com

Jakarta Crafting Day Tour

Is it possible to make crafts in Jakarta, the city that always busy and never sleeps? Yes, it is. For you who has gifted hands and want to reminisce a happy moments in your childhood, we invite you to join Jakarta Crafting Day Tour.

Enjoy a day which full of arts and crafting experiences. Do not just buy crafts and don’t know how to make it. We will take you to a quiet and cozy gallery in the corner of Jakarta, to save you from bustling Jakarta.

In Jakarta Crafting Day Tour, we will let you release your inner child through painting, clay making, cutting, folding, or in any way you want.

  • You can make your own crafts
  • You can learn to fly a kite
  • You can have fun with clay
  • You will see more than 300 kite collections from all over Indonesia
  • You will stroll at a craft gallery which sell thousands of products from all over Indonesia (fair price guarantee)

In addition, you can bring all the craft you made, back HOME.

 

 

 

Price                               : 65 euro per person
Number of Guest           : minimum 2 person
Duration                       : 6 hours
Type of Tour                 : Crafting Experience with Jakarta Private Travel Guide
Meeting point              : Around Central Jakarta

Included :
1. Guest Pickup (around Central Jakarta)
2. All Public Transportation and Round-trip Taxi Cost
3. Gallery Entrance Ticket
4. Crafts Activities: Make a Simple Kite, Traditional Puppet/Mask/Umbrella Painting/Clay Pottering (choose one)
5. Mineral Water and Snacks
6. Simple Lunch (Delivery Order)
7. Jakarta Travel Guide Service

Excluded : Personal Expenses, Additional Craft Activity

Need more information about Jakarta Crafting Day Tour? Please send us email to : tahu@jakartawalkingtour.com or simply click here –> Contact Us