PALANG PINTU KEMANG FESTIVAL

Palang Pintu Kemang Festival is annual event which is always celebrated once a year. This festival is one of event to celebrate Jakarta anniversary. The event usually placed on Jalan Kemang, South Jakarta, so it's called Palang Pintu Kemang. This event is not far from home, where I live, so this is one of my favorite festival that must be visited each year. You also can join in the festival, it's held around of Mei and June, the entry is FREE, It's open for public, so anyone can enjoy the festival.

As capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta  always has big event to celebrate its anniversary day. Usually many event will perform Jakarta's local culture. It well known as Betawi culture, starts from food, dance, traditional clothes, Betawi marriage ceremony and many more. In Palang Pintu Kemang Festival, you can enjoy and see all Betawi culture.

Ondel - ondel traditional big doll in Betawi 

Little dancer, ready to perform traditional dance

Pretty headpiece 

Betawi Traditional Wedding Clothes

Kerak Telor Traditional Food of Betawi

There were also many stalls

Jaipong Dance

Everyone was enjoying the festival

Hope you like it and see you on the next Palang Pintu Kemang Festival :)

Cheers,

Jihan

VISIT NATIONAL GALLERY MUSEUM FOR FREE

Hi friends ??? Any plan for weekend ???

If you are too lazy to spend your weekend traveling out of city, maybe this can be your option. Spending your weekend in city is not that boring. There are a lot of fun places to be visited. One of my favorite place for weekend is to visit museum. In Jakarta, we have so many museums that worth it to be visited. One of them is National Gallery, the museum is one of art museum in Jakarta that provide art exhibition.

                       
The art that is exhibited in the museum such as ; painting, contemporary art, carving, mural etc. This museum is opened for public and free. It's located in front of Gambir Station in Central Jakarta. Sometimes it has different theme of art exhibition, but they have permanent collection that always be there whatever the season. When I visited the museum, they held Art Clay exhibition.

This colorful ceramics will start playing melody 

when you pushed the botton. It was so unique.

Absurd creatures with its skateboard.

This all buttons was made from clay.

The shelf and all bottles, remind me when I was in laboratory..haha

All bottles contained specimens from many type  of clay, some of it is edible.

I tried one that looks like a bread, actually they already cooked it as bread.

The taste was not bad, It was like I'm eating sand.

Permanent Exhibition of National Gallery of Indonesia was opened since 7 October 2015 until now. The exhibition displays 109 permanent collection that becomes state collection. 

Most of it is the work of famous maestros and artists, such as Raden Saleh, Wakidi, S. Sudjono, Affandi, Basoeki Abdullah, Hendra Gunawan, Otto Djaja, Popo Iskandar, Srihadi Soedarsono, Widayat, Djoko Pekik, Eddie Hara, Heri Dono, Jim Supangkat, Dede Eri Supria, Tisna Sanjaya, Krisna Murti, Anusapati, Mella Jaarsma, dan karya perupa internasional antara lain Victor Vasarely, Wassily Kandinsky, Hans Arp, Zao Wou-Ki, Hans Hartung, dan Sonia Delaunay. The arts that display are Indonesia modern art, international, the New Art movement, Indonesian Contemporary Art.

Need precision and art to make this oblique statue.

How to get there :

- Commuter line ---> stop at Gondangdia station, then walk or use ojek, to get 

  National Gallery   Museum.

- Busway, stop at Gambir shelter, the museum is across the shelter. 

What's on Museum ? 
Fixed Exhibition :
Tuesday - Sunday at 09.00 until 16.00 WIB (Monday and National holiday closed)
Entry Ticket : Free

Temporary Exhibition:
Everyday at 10.00 until 19.00 WIB (National holiday closed)
Entry Ticket : Free

WEEKEND TRIP IN CIREBON

"Looking for fun on place near you"

Hi guys, already have plan to spend your weekend?

Wanna visit other city, but no that far and without traffic?

*It sounds just like an advertisement..lol..hahaaha

Before the holy month of Ramadan I spent my weekend by visiting Cirebon city. Cirebon is located on West Java Province,  more to the north of Java island. It's about 4 hours by train from Jakarta. There are many alternatives transportation that you can use, if you want to visit Cirebon. You can go by bus, car, or train. But, I prefer you to go by train, if you only want to visit it in the weekend. The train ticket is not too expensive the rate is about 50k to 100k IDR for economic class. You can start on Friday night after office hours and arrive at Cirebon at midnight, so you have one day full on Saturday and half day on Sunday to explore Cirebon. You can go back to Jakarta by using afternoon or night train on Sunday.

Honestly, I didn't visit many places on Cirebon, because I attended my friend wedding on Saturday (about half day on Wedding party..lol). So, I only visited two places in Cirebon, but they were quite attracting place that must be visited, when you are in Cirebon. Check this out!

• Gua Sunyaragi (Sunyaragi Cave)

         

This cave is located in Kelurahan Sunyaragi, Kesambi, Cirebon. The name "Sunyaragi" was   came from words "Sunya" which means quite and "Ragi" which means soul. From the guide information, long time ago this cave was used for royal family meditation, especially for the king and his soldier to improve their power.

Gua Sunyaragi is devided into two part, "pesanggrahan" and "cave main building". Pesanggrahan was build just like home, complete with bedroom and praying room. The cave has underground that connecting tunnel and waterways. Gua Sunyaragi was build using coral stone and awan.

Oase in the side of the cave ruins..so peaceful..perfect place for meditation... :)

Gua Sunyaragi has many small caves that have different names and purposes. They are , gua pengawal, gua mande kemasan, gua pandekemasang, gua langse, gua peteng, gua arga jumud, and etc.

• Keraton Kasepuhan Cirebon

 

Keraton is a palace where royal family or sultan and his family life. Keraton Kasepuhan is the biggest and most well preserved palace in Cirebon. Long time ago this palace was islam empire where the founder of Cirebon reign, this is where the central government of Cirebon Sultanate stands.

 Inside keraton you can see the main building as house of sultane, there are pedopo, bed room, family room, and the throne of the king. This keratin also has museum, such as : heirlooms and painting the king's collection.

 

My tired face, when have to travel with big backpack and other things...hahaha 

Transportation :

You can use local public transportation , minibus, becak, or ojek
But, if we use public transportation, it will take more time, because some places are far from the city. So, in this vacation, me and my friend used "Bhinneka", it is online taxi with low cost price. It so simple to use it, just go to "Play Store" then install the apps. Sign up the application then taraaaa...you can directly use it. For further information chek this link.

Ragunan Zoo "The Old and Fantastic"

Wonderful Peacock ^0^

Zoo is not only fun place to visit for children, but it fits me so well...hahaha *lol
It was a pleasure to see how the animal life. How they play, how they interact with other family, what is their favorite food.

On the Independence Day of my country (Indonesia) at 17th August, I went to one of the most famous zoo in Jakarta..yep it is called Ragunan Zoo. The entry ticket was not expensive (about IDR 4000) , but now we have to use JakCard to enter Ragunan Zoo. JakCard is similar with e-ticket, we can use it for Jakarta public transportation also, we also able to top up when the balance in limit.


Ragunan zoo is quite large area, beside the animals, they also have beautiful garden, amusement park, cafetaria, mini train, primata schmutzer, etc. Primata Schmutzer, I think it's fantastic place that must to be visited.

This  Mr.Raccoon is very fat, too much eat..hey you!

Hahaha

Heyy bigy bigy Elephant

See giraffes, remembering me with Kwang So

Deers, is time for lunch..uuhh yeeah!

Primata Schmutzer is a place for primates, apes and the family of this animal. This building was built with very good and warm place for living. The sad things are some of area is not  maintained well and some primates looked lonely..haha lol...I think it's only my feeling.

The main gate of Primata Schmutzer

Mom is loving and caring

Simpanse

Hang in the tree

This Mr.Gorilla needs friend, or maybe girlfriend..

Please give one for him..hehe

Well, I hope you enjoyed it! Occasionally, bring your family, friend or even your boyfriend to have holiday in Zoo.