During fasting period 1 day before Idul Fitri at 14th Jun 2018, my youngest sister brought our niece and nephews to Bogor. We stayed in Aston Bogor which just next to the destination theme park, The Jungle Water Park with 4.8 hectares in a mild weather with greenish surrounding. We brought 2 cars as it's not enough for all of us and luggage inside a car, so we park one car full of luggage in Aston as we could not check in at that moment around 11:00, but we had registered to the front desk hotel. Jungle water voucher with 50% discount for 4 persons were given to us by the receptionist as we reserved 2 rooms (1 bedroom and 2 bedrooms) although the room capacity was for 6 guests.
With one car we went to the Jungle, the ticketing office at the 2nd floor while the entrance at the 1st floor opposite the ticketing office. The normal price ticket was Rp. 85.000,- discount 50% for elderly, and free for children below 80cm height, a locker facility provided inside the park cost Rp. 20.000,- They gave you smart tag, we have to deposit Rp. 25.000,- for warranty. The smart tag was used for our entrance, it could be used to pay any expenses inside the park too by deposit more money. As it's fasting period, we had brought lunch from Jakarta, unfortunately it's not allowed to bring inside, lucky there was sofa next to the entrance, so we had lunch first before entering the park while the children were not patient enough to finish the lunch, they would like to go inside soon.
After the entrance we went through the bridge which lying on the above of kiddy pool, at the right side there was a bucket which would spill the water after it's full, some children were waiting for the flushed water under the bucket. We didn't rent the locker as our mom didn't want to play, she volunteered to guard our bags and stuffs at the food court area. After taking off their clothes, they run to the kiddy pool. My nephews played mini slides, while my niece preferred to play seesaw. Many visitors with their family were in the park, but it's not too crowded, there was still some space to move and play around.
From the kiddy pool, their daddy asked my nephews to go to the other area, the race slide with 8 meters height which had 4 lines to slide together. It's not too high, and you could slide without tube. You could compete to race for the fastest reaching the end of the slide. Funny my younger nephew would like to start again, but he tried to walk up from the finish end of the slide, lucky his father who had slide after him could brought him back and showed the right way. They did it twice, as they would like to try the more challenge one.
It's called "Tower Slide", you should rent a tube for sliding, it cost Rp. 40.000,- for 2 persons capacity/3 hours usage. You had to climb the stairs to reach the start point with 12 meters height. There were 2 spiral lines, open and closed channel. My nephews loved it very much, they did it many times, even the elder one did it 8 times. They didn't mind going up through many stairs to go to the start carrying the big tube, even bigger than his body. He's 11 years old, but he could carry the tube by himself :-)
Wave pool located below other area was playing "dangdut" music when we were there, it's only occurred once per hour, so we had to be there on time to enjoy the wave as if on the beach. The wave flowed following the music played. Actually you could see both Pangrango & Salak Mountain at the background, unfortunately it's cloudy at that time, so we could not see it. It's very crowded as people gathered there at the specific time which only happened around 10 minutes.
After playing tower slide again, my eldest nephew and his father enjoyed the lazy river, they sat on the tube followed the current. They were floating on the river under the bridge showered water, passed by giant aquarium, some statues on the edge of the river also sprayed water, even there was a mini waterfall to pass through. My niece was excited to follow them from the land, she ran on the bridge and alley to go ahead of them. She's waiting at the edge of the river welcome and gave them spirit to go to the finish, she's very cute, I'm quite tired running chasing her :-)
If you would like to lay down and enjoy the environment, you also could rent a cabana. It's a gazebo with 3m x 3m cost Rp. 200.000,- per 3 hours. Anyway if you don't want to pay for it, there were some benches available at each area if you would like to sit free of charge, just racing with other visitors to sit on it.
There were still some areas we didn't visit such as "Kawah Ratu" a hot water pool with 40 degree Celcius, bird park, giant aquarium and 4D movie theaters. Water activities in the Jungle Water Park made the perfect family day out especially for children. It's cloudy and all of us were tired, so we went back to the hotel to take a rest. Lucky not long time from check in to the hotel, it's raining hard. Bogor is popular as a rain city, so it's true :-)
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