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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’;Travelogue Day 18
Jakarta : Jakarta is a city of skyscrapers, LED billboards, toll roads, flyovers, foot over bridges, museums, shopping malls, food courts, cafés, food streets, restaurants, colourful mosques and tree-lined verdant avenues. It is also the capital of Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese cuisine. Rain washed trees, skyscrapers, red-tiled roofs of homes, buildings, avenues, litter free pavements, roads, canals and rivers…
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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’;Travelogue Day 17
Melting pot of multiculturalism Jakarta : I visited a mosque and a church facing each other separated by a busy road in Jakarta. These two were being connected by an underground tunnel for a trouble free movement of devotees since they have a history of sharing their parking facilities on special occasions like Eid and Christmas. I went to a…
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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’;Travelogue Day 16
Jakarta’s Dutch Connection Jakarta : For centuries Pelabuhan Sunda Kelapa has been a busy harbour of Jakarta. Once it was a favourite port of merchant vessels from Europe and India. Its role as an international port of importance is over in the 21st century. Now it is playing an important role in the country’s march to progress by managing inter-island…
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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’ ;Travelogue Day 15
Jakarta’s mini-China Jakarta : With my son and daughter-in-law busy with their offices from Monday to Friday, I had come prepared to Indonesia to be on my own during the weekdays. After my arrival in Indonesia I realised that in this nation English is only the script of Bahasa. It is not a part of verbal communication in the country.…
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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’ ; Travelogue Day 12
Jakarta : July 8 was my birthday and I was doing what I enjoy doing the most. Travelling. That too with my son Shashank, daughter-in-law Arsh and grand daughter Mehar. We decided to head out for a three-day weekend to visit Mount Bromo (2329 meters), Java’s most popular and accessible live volcano. We reached Surabaya, capital of East Java, after…
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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’ ; Travelogue Day 11
Milk consumption trends Jakarta : Indonesians believe in an early start. I have been watching construction labour walking in for work at a nearby site every day at 7 in the morning. When I step out for a walk roads are choc a block with two-wheelers and cars. Local vegetable, meat and grocery market (Prasar) is bustling with shoppers much…
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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’ ; Travelogue Day 10
Jakarta : For four hours I was lost in the maze of lanes of Pasar Burung, the famous bird market behind Pasar Pramuka in Jakarta Timur (East). Its more than 150 shops were not only home to lakhs of birds held in cages of all sizes, it also had a number of them selling bird feed—from insects dead and alive,…
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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’ ; Travelogue Day 9
Where bird trade is legal Jakarta : I was introduced to the word ornithology in the early 1970s. This is when I read about India’s famous ornithologist and naturalist Dr Salim Ali. Called the Birdman of India, he not only introduced the system of bird surveys in the country but also went on to author many books on this subject.…
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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’ ; Travelogue Day 7
Outdoor culture to the fore Jakarta : Left for Bogor which is 70 km from South Jakarta. Fifteen kilometres from Bagor is Kec Cisarua, Kabupaten Bogor in Java Barat—Indonesia’s famous Taman Safari. We started late from home hence could only reach Bogor by 3 pm. The city is in the valley next to Bogor Volcano which is famous for its…
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Indonesia : ‘unity in diversity’ ; Travelogue Day 6
Cigarette smoking — A disaster waiting to happen Jakarta : Never Quit is the tag line of a popular Indonesian cigarette brand Surya Pro. Its pack carries, prominently, a statutory warning picture of a throat cancer patient. It is quite scary. But the hero of this cigarette brand’s advertisement campaign is a macho man peering at you from the hoardings…
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