Saturday, February 21, 2009

Safari Park in Bogor, Indonesia


Last two weeks, i unpreparedly went to the largest Safari Park in Indonesia which is located in Bogor, West Java, 3 hours from Jakarta. On the way to that park from Bandung, which is also called as Paris Van Java (because Bandung so cold during Netherlands' conquer and now), I saw a lot of people driving with their big cars, approaching Safari Park. There was horrible traffic jam that i never experienced before. My friends and I got stuck in the middle of traffic jam with some ladies selling the fruits to be given to the animals in Safari Park. The price not so expensive as the fruits sold is not for human to eat, but for animals, since like double standard, but anyhow think about God created human as the best creatures that He ever made. 

We took almost 1 hour to get rid of all the traffic jam, though Bogor is one of the remotest area in Indonesia, but the condition is like hustle and bustle of the city. Once we arrive at the entrance (we did not take the main entrance but back entrance in order to avoid traffic jam), we need to pay for Rp 50,000 each. We were 7 of us, then we paid and enter the mysterious of my heart that i never experience in my whole life entering the incredible scattered animals surrounding us in a closer distance. 

In the first stage, we had seen the zebras, they are really eager to have fruits given by us, unluckily we didnt buy anything from outside, zebras seem like disappointed and got away from us with bad faces. Then suddenly, our hearts were throbbing hard because we were surrounded by lotsa bulls, huh, seriously we were so afraid at that moment because of their attack towards us, we didnt open up our car windows, and suddenly, the bulls made some groups in front of us, so couldnt move forward, we got caught, we were waiting for almost 10 minutes, so that they could be dismissed from their not-appropriately located meeting, "please bulls go away," said to my little heart. Tq God my prayers were answered.

   

Then, we entered the most hardest and toughest with face became reddish so afraid of lioness spirit came over our heads, we need to horn our cars three times so that gates could be opened and entering a new phase of so-called heart-diminishing phase, lion suddenly approached us and sitting beside us, luckily we got such a hard defense of car doors which protect us from the aroma of human which might attract the lion to have a lunch containing human meat

Our throbbing ended, 30 minutes later, as we went out from the lioness-spirit area, then we went to the elephant dancing area, where we could see the elephants were drawing, what a superb skill, dancing, and giving prizes to the children. So amazing, I never see that before. That was my memorable experience that I never experience anywhere else. Then, we took photograph with leopard, and tigers.

But suddenly, I checked my pocket, where was my wallet, o my God, i got damn trouble, throbbing heart again, really felt damn shit, because i felt like i was dead at that moment, my friends tried so hard to compose me, tq friends, they guessed i left my wallet in the car, their minds were right. So damn relieved. Thank God again.

After that, we were on the way back, most memorable in my whole life

1 comment:

  1. to check with u, the night safari is open every day or on every sat only ?
    and is it better to go there from jakarta or bandung ?
    we r planning a visit there in mid august, do appreciate your advice,
    thanks for prompt help
    my e mail is yanyan_tee@yahoo.com

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