During fasting period in June 2016, my niece and nephews were in school holiday too, my brother decided to bring them to Jakarta for holiday. We stayed at our sister's home at Raffles Hill Cibubur for 2 nights, actually we planned to go to Taman Mini on Saturday morning, unfortunately it's raining since morning, so we stayed home till afternoon.
It seemed the raining would stop, we went to the sport club restaurant called Bistro to have lunch there. The restaurant's view was facing to the beautiful swimming pool with its slides and bubble water. We promised them to go back there at evening or the day after, as we'll go to other place after lunch. Going out from Raffles Hill area, it's already around 13:30, the traffic was so crowded. Taman Mini was quite a far distance and it's too late to go there, we changed the plan to Mekarsari, unfortunately when we had to take the U-Turn, the traffic was even worse to go there, so my brother decided to take the highway to Jungleland. None of us had visited the place before, so we were blind just reading the signs and using GPS from smartphone.
The highway was not crowded, unfortunately when we entered Sentul area, it's very jammed. It's caused by car accident, we still could see the passengers who got the accident. The traffic was jammed because people were slowing down, they would like to see the accident, the white saloon car was broken heavily on the front, the front windows were broken. The passengers sat down in the middle of the street and made a call. Reaching Jungleland area, we decided to park in VIP area because my niece was sleeping so we had to carrying her to the entrance gate. It's almost 14:30 when we arrived, we're quite lucky as there was a promo from one of popular bank in Indonesia to give discount, the woman at the ticket locket was quite surprised that we would enter the theme park so late, as they'll close at 17:00.
We're lucky that we could take group picture helping by one of the visitors, although it's very difficult to take children's picture, my niece woke up already as she could see attempting colorful environment. At the entrance gate we could not get the map to go around, so we had to take picture from the billboard size map at the entrance. The zone was divided into 5 zones, carnivalia, tropicalia, mysteria, eksplora, dino world. Most of them for children, anyway if the child below 90 cm, they could not ride some vehicles.
The first selection was "harvest time", it's like a small roller coaster, my niece was crying as she was not allowed to ride as she's too young (3 years old) and short, so her brothers and father join the ride. After the ride, we brought them to "mini ferrish wheel" where my niece was accompanied by her mom, while her brothers together on the different cart. She's quite happy as she's allowed to ride it and could see us from above.
The next ride was "North Pole", where the children could sit as if on the sea lion, this time the eldest brother was not allowed to ride, it's only for the small children. The sea lion was on the water going around following the path which also went through a small cave and a small speed bump, they enjoyed it.
Rainbow train was attracted the children, it's colorful and all of them could join the ride. Lucky there was no long queue as it's fasting period, so they could ride some attractions in a short time, although some attractions were closed as it's under renovation. After twice circulation, the train was stop. I thought all of them could play "mini bumper car", unfortunately my niece was not allowed to play, to comfort her, I bought a colorful ice cream. She's happy to eat it as there was pink color as her favourite color for everything from clothes, shoes, bag, spoon, etc.
As the theme park quite huge, we decided to take the train with a long carriages to bring us around. It's like the real train with open carriage, my nephew was excited to see the train's mechanism. It took a few minutes to wait for the other passengers. We could see a giant octopus and dino statue on the way, the eldest brother insisted to visit it.
To see the panorama view of the park, we stopped by on the ferris wheel that allowed all of us to ride. The view from the top was magnificent, we could see the mountains as the background covering by the cloud, also the ripple river water flowing in the middle of the park. It's a picturesque view with lovely cool weather. My eldest nephew kept saying that he would like to visit Dino, so we followed him to Dino World.
The gate was quite attractive with Dino's statues, there was a guide wearing adventurer costume such as Indiana Jones. Entering the close room was quite scary as we were welcome by a loud sound of Dinosaurus and its moving. My niece was scared, she immediately asked her mom to carry her. I like this Dino World, they used censor to detect people movement. The Dino would move and sound only when there's a person passing them. It contains all kind of Dino with its explanation about Dino's type. It's good for education.
After Dino World, the kids would like to take another train, the circus train with Circus locomotive and colorful carriage with elephant on the top was the final ride as the park was closed. They didn't want to go home, they still wanted to play as it's too short, unfortunately none of them was operated anymore. On the way to the gate, we stopped by at Starbuck which has funny building. The rooftop looked like bananas with monkey on the top of it, while the wall looked like woods. We bought some coffees and snacks. Before going home, we took 'wefie' for group picture in front of the nice world globe from metal with jungleland signage. I felt glad that we had a chance to enjoy jungle land. If there was no children, definitely we (my mom and sisters) would not get a chance to visit it. We were happy, also the children.
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