Jakarta Half Day Visit The Monument with Highlight City Tour
Description
Start your day with the expert guide and friendly, this experience will tell you about City and History called Golden Jakarta The highlight: Visit the landmark of Jakarta, Lift up the tower and Explore the museum. The Monument encapsulates the philosophy of Lingga and Yoni. Lingga resembles an Alu rice pestle and Yoni resembles a lesung rice mortar, two important traditional Indonesian tools. Lingga and Yoni also symbolize harmony, balance, fertility and eternal life with the lingga phallic symbol, representing masculinity, positive elements, and daytime and the Yoni the female organs symbol, representing femininity, negative elements, and night. You will learn the history and guide brings you to look at the city with our local experience: * Glodok Chinatown * Old town and puppet studio * Old harbour * Istiqlal Mosque * Cathedral church, passing by Presidential Palace and Kota Intan Bridge The best experiences with Explanation of Indonesian Timeline
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Itinerary
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
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Pickup Locations & Times
- WhatsApp Number - Price from Airport/Outside Jakarta counted for additional highway fee 4 ways, parking Airport, Ring road toll fee, distance more than 25km from Jakarta City
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- This tour can be share group with optional price you selected
- Shared group can't be pick and drop from Airport
- Private Tour Pick Up and drop service Jakarta Area FREE
- Share Group must be clicked under 12 hour or automatically as private with our assistance
Reviews(17)
Magnificent and complete excursion to meet in a day Jakarta. They show you and explain the most interesting places like the National Monument, the Mosque, the Cathedral, the Chinatown with its temple....I have done it privately with a magnificent driver and Haidar as a guide that I have to congratulate him for the great work he has done and for the magnificent treatment he has given me. Fully recommended.
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This is the perfect tour for someone looking to explore Jakarta in half a day. We learned a lot of history. Our guide, Ivan, was very knowledgeable on the Indonesian history and we learned many new things. We didn’t get to see the Mosque due to an event the day we went but the Cathedral was beautiful. My favorite part was the puppet studio. It was surprisingly interesting. Great tour and guide!
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We decided on short notice to join the tour, and all our questions were answered quickly and without any issues. The guest support was excellent throughout – very responsive, helpful, and professional. The tour itself was amazing! Our Guide Hany was such an amazing tour guide, wow! I cannot express how greatful we were for having taken the tour and having her as a guide. We learned so much and Hany easily adapted to our wishes.
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Excellent tour would highly recommend. Fitri our guide was extremely knowledgeable and we went to some amazing places. Great way to see Jakarta
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Ine our guide and the driver were super helpful and supportive. We really appreciated the flexibility to make this the best experience for us. 5 Stars for the kindness and support to keep us safe and happy during the whole trip. She also organized 2 local guides explaining us more about the old town and the puppet show tradition. 4 Stars since the places to visit in Jakarta are a limited experience by itself and because we would have wished to receive some more historical and social insights. There were also some misunderstandings for the booking with the agency (not related to the guide itself).
Dear Ms. Julia, We are misunderstand between a price option booking, shared group is corncern to collective. 2 person is extra, eventhough at any platforms, all providers do same things with respect to the price. Shared is light for price both collective money and people, private is rather heavy but all make you flexible and more faster service. "Price never be lie with quality" We are honored by your exquisite contibution review of Tripedia Indonesia. It brings us immense joy to know your experience was exceptional. Your compliments about our impeccable services are deeply appreciated. We are dedicated to providing a luxurious service and memorable experience, and it’s rewarding to hear we succeeded. We eagerly anticipate welcoming you back. Warmest regards,
We had the second great time with this company, Enok as our guide and Ifan as taking no risks, Informative, friendly and engage, She made the tour very accomodative. We had a group tour visited the mosque, cathedral, old town and harbour. We only had a couple of days in Jakarta again and call to book and we were not disappointed. The driver, Ifan was super professional and negotiated several tricky hour to drop the last. Would definitely recommend!
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This sightseeing tour was a fantastic way to explore Jakarta’s rich history and culture in one day. We visited iconic sites like Monas, the impressive Istiqlal Mosque, and the beautiful Cathedral Church—a powerful symbol of religious harmony. The Chinatown, The Old City of Batavia (Kota Tua) was full of colonial charm, and the Old Harbour of Sunda Kelapa offered a glimpse into the city’s maritime past with its traditional wooden ships.
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My experience absolutely amazing with best guide and their driver, communication was easy. Love the tour with many choices as their recommendation. This is great for team who take care of me too
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Fitri and the driver did a fantastic job on our tour of Jakarta. We learned so much about the culture of all the tribes and people of Jakarta as well as the history of Jakarta. Thr driver was very careful and got us back to our ship with time to spare. Thank you both for showing us your wonderful city.
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We were very happy to visit JAKARTA with Ferdy and Anton . It was very interesting with all informations in good english. We recommand this great experience to everybody.
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