okay so today we are here in kota tua this literally means old town in indonesia
this used to be the center of jakarta this was like the central hub this is
where everything happened but this was back before when jakarta was called - hang on - batavia
latavia batavia uh that happened just after world war ii when indonesia got its independence so
we're here today to try and see what sort of influence the colonial dutch left here and
just sort of see what the vibe is like here in this really old town because we were told
that this was a really cool place to come and visit if we wanted to see some old indonesia
but first we've been told that there's only one way to travel around this square
and i'll give you a hint it's not a go-jek it's not a taxi it's not a helicopter it's this
i've never been in a country where you can rent a bicycle and a hat
very beautiful i think this is my highlight of indonesia so far
man do you feel overwhelmed i feel overwhelmed but very loved
it was at this point we realized that we were the only western people in all of kota Tua
we had a mini celebrity experience as everyone wanted photographs and
conversations with us it was pretty fun
i feel like a celebrity yeah i feel like celebrity
okay so this is our friend we've just met what's your name agus agus okay agus and agus
works with the tour guide here and he's also in the information center so we thought
what better man to ask than Agus for some just general information about this square
and more particular what this building is here behind us so august what is this place mate so uh
this is the old city from the dutch yeah we call it uh kota in bahasa indonesia or batapia yeah
so this building behind us so this building it was built in 1710 and the building used us
as a start house oh sorry i speak dutch City Halls yeah so they built this building in 1710
and now we use that building for the historical museum well thank you very
much agus pleasure to meet you yeah thank you for the information thank you so much
this is how you walk across roads in jakarta you have to get a police escort
show the hands and go show the hand show the hand
okay so we have left tatahila square we are now on to our second location of the day we are going
to chinatown and we've been warned that this is uh not a trip not a chinatown that we will be used to
this is more of a traditional chinatown in an old city so we're quite excited about that but
on the way we have to walk through this like underpass next to the main road
it turns out it's actually pretty awesome on its own this is like
artist alley i'm gonna call it everybody seems to be artists around here but some really talented
people doing some really cool things so yeah we're just enjoying our little walk
down to chinatown as much as hopefully we're gonna enjoy being there - i see the red light
i really want to find the chinese pharmacy - why?
because i want to buy dried frogs you want to buy dried frogs do you eat them i don't
know yet but let's see so we think we think the dried frogs are going to heal us from everything
so we are here in the pharmacy here is a musician here is a man who wants to have a photo with me
and i'm just here to buy the fried frogs
ready
smile hello
yeah sorry do you have dried frogs
something like that okay he showed me this so they haven't no
i don't have it unfortunately so this is definitely not a chinatown that i've ever been
to before usually chinatowns are kind of a little bit touristy and maybe a little bit tacky in some
places this is like an authentic chinatown you definitely have to say that it's probably in quite
a poor area of the city i think things are quite run down here um but yeah the people are super
nice everyone's again been super friendly but there is not a great deal to do here unless you
really love chinese food or you're gonna like buy lots of things in the on the market
so we've sort of done our little thing here in chinatown we've seen what we wanted to see
and now it's the middle of the day it's super hot so we're going to go and try and find somewhere
with a little bit of air conditioning and get a little bit of dinner some lunch sorry maybe
go to a mall because i need to get a new memory card for my camera and uh yeah just
see what the malls around here are like so yeah let's take ourselves there but we've heard that
there's only one way to leave chinatown so we're gonna try and find it let's see what we can find
we got the top and this is the only way to travel
i'm super excited
okay change of plan we've ended up somehow at the beach
uh the taxi driver well the tuk-tuk driver said to us he said why are you going to the mall and
he said oh we just wanted to go and get a memory card he said no no let me take you somewhere cool
and he brought us here um and this is honestly really cool i'm so happy we're
here so we're going to go and explore this little area this is called pantai
indar pantai means beach indar is the name of the beach there is even a little sand area here this
is honestly really cool there's like a cable car up here so that's something to look around
and then for 100k you can take a boat ride and last for half an hour up into the water
up into the water and come and see some of not awesome the beach but the city as well
this is really cool well worth five pounds you definitely cannot say better than that
can't really see it on the camera but just there is the city which is really cool
it's just me on my little boat
every side in my dreams
this is why she's not in the vlog very often
okay
thank you