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Life in Jakarta #6: The Evening Walk in Jakarta Old City

27 Oktober 2013   14:52 Diperbarui: 24 Juni 2015   05:58 182
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The European touch can also be experienced through Kota's square named today as Taman Fatahillah. People are free to express themselves in that square. That night, I could see various acts done like acoustic performance, people wore long gown acting as ghosts from colonial era, until people wore colonial officer costume acting as statues. Meanwhile some others were walking and talking; yes many things people can do here.

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Furthermore, I also saw the post office building. This office is still operated regularly. Then, I saw organized night market in which people could buy some souvenirs including t-shirt with may choices of  Jakarta images attached like t-shirt with image of National Monument or Ondel-Ondel (Jakarta big doll). The prices here are generally affordable and even you may still bargain.  What else I saw? I saw buildings of Wayang Museum (used to be Geo Wehry & Co Warehouse building), Fine Arts and Ceramic Museum (used to be Justice Palace), Mandiri Bank (used to be Kantoor van de Nederlandsch Indische Escompto Maatschappij), and Indonesian Bank (used to be De Javasche Bank).

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[/caption] After spending non-stop 2.5  hours by walking around Kota Tua, I decided to finish it and move to go to another place to explore that evening. Indeed, there were many spots that I had not yet explored in Kota Tua due to its huge area. Having some sweat and refreshing the eyes with classical images that night were very satisfying for me. Certainly, I planned to go back to this area and explore deeper. [caption id="attachment_266929" align="aligncenter" width="522" caption="Another corner of Kota Tua (2)"]
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