Ancol Dreamland

Ancol Dreamland or Taman Impian Jaya Ancol was opened in 1966 and still the biggest and largest integrated tourism area in South East Asia.

Established at Jakarta beach area, Ancol has several recreational facilities such as:

1. Dunia Fantasi or Dufan Fantasy World.

Jakarta theme park which is completed by more than 40 rides and attraction and complies with International Standard (ISO 9001 - 2000) certification. This area is divided into 8 sections theme park; Jakarta, Indonesia, Asia, America, Europe, Greece, Hikayat (Fantasy) and Monkey Parody.

Dufan Theme Park

2. Water Park.

Including : Atlantis Water Adventure, Gelanggang Samudera (Sea-animals show), Sea World (under water aquarium) and 2 beautiful beaches.

Atlantis Water Adventure

Ancol Water Park

Ancol Sea World :


Animal show at Gelanggang Samudera Ancol

3. Entertainment Areas.

In this facilities offer to the visitors Hotels, Restaurant, Executive Golf (more than 30 hectares), Bowling Center and Art Market (Pensa Pasar Seni). The art market sells the handicraft and traditional art product from the whole Indonesia country.

Ancol Art Market

4. Many more fun, recreational, sport-fun you can enjoy here.

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Raja Ampat - The Richest Marine Biodeversity in the Wold

Raja Ampat archipelago which literally translate as "Four Kings"located at northwest tip of Birhead's Peninsula, on the island of Papua, Indonesia. Comprising more than 1,500 small island, cays and shoals which surrounding the four big island Missol, Salawati, Batanta and Weigo. Encompasses area more than 400.000 kilo meters of land and sea, including the biggest marine national park in Indonesia, Cendrawasih Bay.

Fishes under Raja Ampat

Based on Conversation International in 2002, Raja Ampat recorded as the richest biodiversity in the world. The information on its marine ecosystems, mangrove and forest collected incredible information. 573 of corals species or 75% known corals in the world. 899 of fish species. Thousands of sea turtles. In the land found lush forests, rare plants and limestones in this area.

Corals Under Raja Ampat

With this combination, Raja Ampat has a special object tourism such as liveboard diving and other unforgettable tourism object.

Other information:
1. Government official site
2. Welcome to Raja Ampat
3. Liveboard Diving
4. Raja Ampat Islands
5. Raja Ampat Tour

Baluran National Park

This park is a forest preservation area that extends about 25.000 square meters on the north coast of East Java. Located at Situbondo (on the east border of Java Island). This park also protected some endangered plant and animal species such as: Tamarindus Indica, Bos Javanicus, coun alpinus etc.

Beside that, you can enjoy the panorama of savannah and mount Baluran (inactive volcano) in the center of area that becomes habitat of many exotic animals such as wild pigs, deer, peacocks, wild chicken, some species of monkeys and also bulls as the protected animals in the area.

Peacock in Baluran

Wild monkey in Baluran

In Baluran National Park, you can see a historical place called “Gua Jepang” (Japan Cave). Gua Jepang is one of historical witness that in this place (Baluran National Park) was happened battle between Indonesia army against Japanese army. Because unequal power, there are a lot of Indonesia army who died in that battle, so this place also called Batangan. Gua Jepang has wide about 12 km that contains in 2 chambers. The north chamber was used to save the weapon, while the south chamber was used as a fissure to see an enemy.

Beside Gua Jepang, in the Baluran National Park, you also can see Bekol savannah. It's about 12 km from the entrance Baluran National park. You will see a flock of deer, bulls, etc, in the morning and in the afternoon (when the sun goes down) to do their activity. You also can see their activity and behavior of those animals from the height.

Bama beach is located in the east of Baluran National Park. You can see the original beach and the fantastic panorama in here. Beside that you can see the mangrove forest, Bama source and Mantingan source. One of special moment here is that you can see monkey with the long tail (Macaca fascicularis) that fishing crabs with their long tail. If you like go on food, you can pass the truck and you can see the beautiful panorama of Bama Beach on the height. Just with 15,000 Rupiahs per person you can spend the night in Bama Beach to enjoy the beautiful panorama at night here.