My Experience Travelling Bandung Jakarta

I have never been to Jakarta on my own before, and on 27 October 2007, that’s the first time I go there on my own. Yup, that’s for the Internet marketing Bootcamp. I want to share my travelling experience with you all. There are several things that I’m really ‘blank’. Ilive in Bandung. I don’t know Jakarta streets, I don’t know how to get to the place, I really afraid to get lost in Jakarta. It is a very vast city, and you can get lost if you don’t know exactly where to go. And then I decide to search. Yup, ask uncle google, that’s how my story went smoother; but not as smooth as I thought ^^ though.

First I considered how I could get to Jakarta. I could go by car, by train or by plane, and I choose to travel by car. Why? Because it offers the best deal, price – travel time. If you go by plane, that would cost you more than 100k Rp for 45 min flights. If you go by train, it would cost you 75k Rp (Argo Gede) for 3 hr travel time. But If you go by car, it will only cost you 60k for 2 hr travel time. Well, if you kinda’ short of money, I recommend you using the travel car. Now, the question change. Which travel car should I use. There are several travel car in Bandung, i.e. Cipaganti, X-trans, City Trans, Transporter, Baraya, Transline and I guess there are lots more. Baraya offers the cheapest price. You should only pay 35k, but I didn’t choose this as it didn’t guarantee ‘1 person go’ and their earliest time is at 6am. I want to go to Jakarta by 5am. Then I chose Cipaganti. Their max seat is 10 – compare to X-trans, 11 for the same 60k price. I didn’t research on others travel car because I really don’t have time to do this. As soon as I figured Cipaganti is better, I chose it. Transporter actually offer the best comfort. Their max passengers are only 6, but I figured this out after I went back to Bandung. Oh, I forgot, They use almost the same type of car, Pregio, Travello or others similar car (or I should say minibus).

At Jakarta, as travel car is a shuttle service a.k.a. point to point, I choose Cikini as my drop point as they told me Cikini is closer to Borobudur Hotel (my Bootcamp place), and I could go to Borobudur Hotel by taxi. BAM! Suddenly several bad stories about Jakarta’s taxi appeared. If you are newbies and don’t really know Jakarta, and your appearance is kinda’ wealthy, the taxi driver will take you round and round the city until the argo (taxi-meter) reach they considered price. And also there are several stories about robbery in taxi. The taxi driver will have their friends join the taxi and they will take you to a quiet place and they will rob you. And of course there are other story about rape, and so on. Of course these stories really frightened me. But who am I? I remember that I have my GOD; there are nothing could scared me because HE always be with me. That is what He promised in Matthew 28:20.

And guess what… the story became easy. I really have a smooth travel. I take a taxi in the opposite of Cipaganti pool at Cikini, and it only cost me 10k to reach Borobudur Hotel. Some said that only Blue Bird is the most trustworthy taxi company, but I don’t believe them. I chose any taxi coming across, and I really had a save journey. The taxi driver didn’t take the round way, (Well I kinda’ knew it because I had searched on Jakarta Street Map before, and it only took 10 min to reach Borobudur Hotel) and he is really really friendly. I talked a lot with him, how long he have been a taxi driver, where he lived and so on. And the same thing went on while I went back to Bandung. I chose any taxi, went to Cikini, and go back to Bandung. Really smooth isn’t it? Just believe in GOD and Thy will be with you any time, any where. I was really afraid at first but as soon as I remember His promise, He comfort me. Thanks GOD! Can’t wait to have another travelling with Him. ^^ Pray for my success in this Internet Business, ok? I hope I can travel around the world then. Success for US!