The First-Timer’s Travel Guide to Jakarta, Indonesia (2019)

When people talk about the most interesting destinations in Indonesia, Jakarta is rarely in the conversation. Like my home city of Manila, it’s mostly glossed over and treated as a pitstop rather than a destination.

When I was doing research for this trip, I was trying to figure out how best to allocate our two weeks in the country. We were arriving via Jakarta but I almost didn’t give it more than an overnight stay. I couldn’t find enough interesting activities to merit more than that but in the end, I decided to give it two nights to allow us one full day in the city.

24 hours may not be a lot but it was enough to give me a read on this well-known but often overlooked Indonesian capital city.

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