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You want to visit Jakarta for holiday as foreigners, but have limited time and budget? Hope my pages can give you basic guide for traveling to Jakarta.

This page will give you a way to spend days in Jakarta in Cheap (let’s say budgeted) and Enjoyable. I won’t talk about luxury hotels here.

Jakarta Map and Regions
When I tried to travel to Kuala Lumpur or London or Paris, I got difficulties in finding correct place to stay. That was because I haven’t got information about city regions and tourist hotspots. So in my guide, I recommend you to understand a bit about Jakarta Regions so you won’t end-up in staying in hotes at remote area or red-light district.

Now, imagine a rounded birthday cake then slice it into 4 equal piece. Then you’ll have North, West, East, and South of Jakarta. And make a inner small circle in center to make Central Jakarta. To have your travel as efficient as possible, make sure you stay close to Central, West, or North. These regions have many malls, attractions, etc. Avoid Eastern part of Jakarta for staying. Western part to Eastern part is about 15km and so is North to South.

Transportation

There’s limited transportation tools for foreigners, so make sure plan your route and know where you are going to.

Taxi is preferred way to travel, but not for long distance. Choose taxi if you plan to go to same or adjacent region (intra Western Jakarta or west to central, but do not try using taxi for west to east). There are 2 type of taxi pricing, old scheme price and new scheme price. Old price taxi will be marked with “Tarif Lama” as it is cheaper. Actually no different service between those two, only some companies insists in not increasing their flagfall price.Only choose Blue Bird Group Taxi for New Price and Express Taxi for Old Price.

To be continued..