what's going on everybody this is Island Hopper TV travel highlights coming to you from Jakarta
now it's my first time in Jakarta I've been here for a few days and I'm going to share with you my
first impressions I've stayed at some of the premier luxury hotels and they're definitely
very nice. I'm at the Grand Hyatt right now. We've got the Kempinski right here. This is our mall area
You can see a couple different malls here, but lots of high-rises down here in Jakarta
Hello, sir. How are you? Good, good. Thank you so much. All right. Can I walk this way
Or which way should I walk? This way. Okay, thank you, my friend
So. Now. I did stay at the JW Marriott also
As well as the Ritz-Carlton. You guys can watch those reviews over on that channel
But. You get great value here in Jakarta if you stay at some of the luxury resorts
For a lot better price than you would get in another country. So it makes it possible
I mean, I was in Singapore. I was staying at basic hotels over there. And I come over here to Jakarta
The next thing you know, I'm in luxury hotels. Better value. $200 a night
And Singapore gets you like... Hello. Okay, thank you, my friend. Oh, she wants to help me cross the road, but I don't think so
I think I'll keep walking this way. So anyway, just kind of giving you an insight into what I've been doing here
The airport is like 20 miles away, but depending on when you arrive, it can take anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour
Or even two hours. Like if you arrive on a weekday at 12 o'clock in the afternoon or 8 in the morning
it'll take you a long time. What do we have going on here
Freak food, huh? We're right in the heart of the city here
I'm taking it one step at a time without getting run over, literally
All right. We got a food streak going on here
So grab is a great way to get around. So download the app Grab before you come here
Nasi Uduk. Nasi, I think, means rice. So rice Uduk
I don't know what Uduk means. Like, if you get Mee Goreng, that's fried noodle
If you get Nasi Goreng, that's fried rice. So I'm gonna actually explore some more of these areas around the city here, but I just wanted to show you
what is going on around here, but let's pick up at the next location
All right, so I'm headed to Duka Atas. Yes, with my driver, Mulyadi. MRT MRT
So it's basically the MRT station area, but it's a popular place. So I'll try to put the translation below
Let's go there. Alright, so he dropped me off over here At a MRT station
I don't think this is the one exactly that I wanted to go to, although I will say that I did stay at the Marriott executive apartment
Which are right there so that could be a really good area to stay but you can see
Massive skyline here busy road takes forever to get up and down this road here. So let's go down into the MRT
We're gonna go way down Way down here so this is what it looks like under a MRT station
Looks like we've got some security. Let's see what is going on down here
Maybe I'll get a Jakarta Metro pass. See what goes into that
Air conditioning works great down here. Seems pretty good so far. I like it
Hello. Metro card. So this is basically what I'm getting. I just said MetroCard and she knew what I was talking about
By the way, here in Indonesia, English is not widely spoken. So, or at least here in Jakarta, it's not widely spoken
So, take that into consideration. Do you have cash? I have cash
Oh, okay. Is it 100,000? So, one card is 50,000
Okay. With balance, 50,000. Is that right? Okay, no problem. So the card you can use in another transportation
Okay. Alright. So I've successfully crossed the road here. Walk up those stairs
That Marriott apartments is pretty good. So, yeah
50,000 for the card and she put a balance on it of like 25,000
interesting so let's keep going so I noticed around here people drink something out of a cup
something like a wine or a soda some sort of mix in there I don't know exactly
what's in the drink I just know it's commonly drank It's usually in a small plastic cup if anyone knows comment below
So that's duca atas. I'm assuming the guys had just walked this way
So we'll kind of press back down the direction we came Basically what he was saying was this is the main drag to walk
Again, it's my first time in Jakarta. I've been here for three days
It takes time to familiarize yourself with the place, especially a mega city like this where not many people speak English
I finally understood Bangkok, but Bangkok took me a while also. Heck, Tokyo took me a while. Kuala Lumpur, I still am like probably 25% comprehension of Kuala Lumpur
I mostly just know Bukit Bintang, KLCC. That a Megatropolis This one even bigger But yeah I surprised at how few people speak English here so
Google Translate for sure is going to be needed. Like, obviously it's a foreign country, so you can't expect them to speak your local tongue, but..
Usually, English is widely spoken. This is just not one of those places where that is the case
So I'm constantly... Hello, hello. How are you? Welcome to Jakarta. Okay, thank you. Okay. Thank you. We got an electric bus. That's pretty good
I'll tell you one thing that's like a natural boost of energy is having an interaction with a human being
that's like fun and exciting. Like those guys. Those guys, you know, everyone drinks coffee or beer or whatever
but you encounter someone that's good spirits like that, it'll lift you up
Anyway, let's keep cruising here and see what we can come across
Okay, thank you. What is the name here? Name, name, name. St. Regis
No. Hotel name. This is an apartment. Oh, apartment. Office. Office building
Yes. Okay, okay, sir. Thank you so much. So, Astra. That Manara Astra
Okay, that's what that is. Well, either way, I was asking them where to go
and none of the three guys spoke any English. They were so friendly and wanted to help me
but I don't speak a lick of Indonesian. I just know Salamat, Nasi Goring, Nasi Lamak
I mean, I got to learn Indonesian if I'm going to come to Jakarta again, I'll tell you that
It's a good challenge, right? It's a good challenge to put myself through it. But the guys were so friendly, I mean, I just wish I could communicate with them
Back to the Marriott Executive Apartments. All right. Setia Budi Astra
That's where we came out of. Some real nice hotels around here
We definitely stay at that Marriott again, the Marriott Apartments. Great price
Huge room. Great location. I mean, I love the JW and everything, but there was nothing really going on around there
Not much to do. So anyways. I wear these glasses at night to protect against the blue light
Blue light protection because they use LEDs and fluorescence. And it irritates my eyes
I got those custom made in Singapore. They're actually transparent lenses or transition lenses
So in the daytime, they get dark. At night time they are see through with a little bit of yellow
So UV and blue light protection all in one glass. Works great
Also I look at my screen a lot. So I need blue light protection from that
Here is called DaVinci. I have no idea what exactly this place does or is, but, uh, looks a bit Roman or Greek
Look at that. That's the direction in which I'm walking. Very lush here
All right, so I've arrived at Senopati
We're just going to walk around. What is the name of this place? Nectarine. Oh, that's the name
Hello, how are you? Do they have upstairs? Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much
Well, there's my sashimi dinner. I think I'm going to need a little more than that
Wagon, lightly torched. All right. So after a good time in there, that's a nice place
I definitely recommend it. Hello, sir. Maybe in a little bit, I'm actually going to be walking this way
So, pancha. Pancha. Okay, good, sir. so had a great time in there
they took great care of me people were buying me shots and stuff I'm like wow
so nice patrons were buying me shots totally unnecessary because I'm fine
but appreciated 100% I guess in this bar or club right here
there's a lot of people who are working to cater to men
Long story short, I don't know what the name of it is. I think it's called Kaiman
C-A-I-M-A-N. I'm not going there, but that's, I guess, what they were telling me
Chengdam Garden. So, this is considered a nightlife area of Jakarta one of many
I'm just the type of guy to find out all the good spots if I can get a hold of it just so I can provide
accurate and relevant information to you the viewer that's why you should subscribe to this
channel because I go out of my way to cater to the viewers men women
Asian Americans Latinos anyway I don't know we've got across the street I guess so based on what the
locals were telling me they like when you spend money they like tourists that
spend money. Go figure, right? Like, that's a common commonality you'll notice in all tourist areas
What is that place? It looks almost like a hotel. I can't tell, though
If that's a hotel, that would be like the hotel to stay at. It says like Pritz? I Pritz or something
I don't know. What do I know? Fritzhamton, I think this is more of a locals area
But either way There's this Ballet service the harvest It's a great area
Wow, H Club, but look at the moon behind it. Oh my gosh. I had no idea the moon was full tonight
Apparently it was going on here Tam Ling all right So we just figure out a way to get around here Alright so this is SBDC which is like
Hello, sir. What does SCBD mean? It's kind of... The first S. What does S stand for
So the road is called Sujurman. So Sujuman Central Business District. Oh, good
Okay, thank you, sir. Okay, the Langham Hotel over here? Langham? All right, I trust security
Security knows best. All right, this way. So we're... Yeah, they're like, oh my God, who's this crazy freaking white guy
He's an American. He's got to be an American, only crazy white. All right, so anyway
We're going over here to the Langham Hotel because I was told it's a rooftop bar on top of a hotel, and it's one of the best hotels in the city
So, we're just walking around the SCBD. So, the name of the road, Central Business District
Oh, wow. Okay. It's actually quite nice in here. Oh my gosh
This is really nice. Oh, I gotta go to the restroom
Because they gave me five beers at that last place. I was drinking beer like a tank
They also gave me two free shots so I'm like oh boy oh boy
Once you break the seal you know how it goes. I Don't have to go but I should go because I don't want to be pressed when I'm trying to check into the Langham for rooftop
All right, so from SBDC we're gonna go past the ramen Sanpachi 38
so in case i haven't said it i'll say it now jakarta is exceeding my expectations
what i expected i had no idea actually but i will say that i didn't expect this
this much modernity look at the police they ride around on bmw bikes
you know one of the things that caught my attention about jakarta i was looking at a
Bloomberg report, I believe it was by Chase Bank, J.P. Morgan. And Jakarta was actually, or I'm sorry
Indonesia was in the top 10 countries for the next 30 years for GDP
So the projections for Jakarta are quite high. Oh, wow. Look at this
Again, just more and more life and vibrance i have no idea what this song is i'm oh is it a live band
great band they're doing a great job and now we're headed off to the langham hotel for our next uh
adventure. We're going to go up to the rooftop of one of the best hotels
in the city. Look at this kid. He's feeling the music. Great music. Local Indonesian style
So we got Langham Hotel. I think it's right there. Or is that
St. Regis? I cannot make out the words yet. I better get on the road before I get
or off the road before I get in trouble once I get up here
As I'm walking to the Langham, we've got like an empty lot, probably zoned out for commercial or maybe residential
I don't know what they'll build there, but they've got like four banana, 10 banana trees at least
I just see four immediately close to me, but there was a lot more than that
And it's just funny. Banana trees, fruit producers. All right, so we're walking
We'll see where we end up. All right, so I'm headed up to the 65th floor. There was some security coming in so I didn't film any of it
But yeah, that's where we're going. 65th floor at the Langham Hotel, Langham Jakarta
There you go. Yeah, there we go. This is the vision bar. Okay
You see from the corner there, you can see the whole Jakarta? Yeah, that's nice. That's a very nice view
Okay, we got live music, saxophone stuff. okay all right this is chilling 65th floor oh we got outdoor right here yeah I just want to see
the beautiful views of Jakarta she's doing amazing that's great oh my gosh look at this
we got this outdoor rooftop here hello thank you so much oh my goodness look at this
Let's see what the views are. Mmm. Oh wow, look at that
Not gonna get any better than that, are ya? Okay, so we've come to this place called Monas
It's right here in the central Jakarta area. It's more laid back than the city of all the high-rises
This is more of a down-to-earth experience that you'll get here in Jakarta
But Monash, the actual monument, is closed for cleaning. Sir, which way is Monash, the monument
Monument, yeah. Can I look in close? Hello! Monash? They're not trying to sell to the foreigners here
They're trying to hawk to the locals like we don't need foreigner
And Bali would be the other way around All right, so the Monas here is not open on Mondays and it's actually closes at 4 o'clock
every day. So, I'm in a predicament here, it's Monday after 4 o'clock, so there's no getting into
this place. But just thought I'd point that out. This is like the main monument in the city
So it is what it is. And here we are at the Istiklal Mosque
Masjid Istiklal, Jakarta, Indonesia
Across the street here they have a beautiful cathedral actually. This is a much larger facility, but that cathedral has more of that old world architecture
This looks a lot newer. Okay so from the mosque there a cathedral right across the street here
Hello. I have driver, but thank you. I have a taxi
Otherwise I would do a tuk-tuk. That sounds like fun. Now for the tricky part, getting across the street here
How do you do it? Let's see here Okay, thanks that bus I was able to do it
Here we have the cathedral Cathedral Jakarta. All right, so here we are at Kawasan Glodok, Panakoran. This is Chinatown Jakarta
And right over here is a holiday inn if you guys wanted to stay there, but this is Pastor Jaya
Got a car moving, but it's absolute chaos down here Look at this
It is chaos. Let's see here. Through the gate
Hello. Well, let's keep exploring around here and see what else is going on
So this here is Kota Tua. It's essentially the old town of Jakarta
You can see they've got a museum here. And basically what I'm going to do is actually walk down this way
But just giving you an idea of the vibes. Yeah, I probably would suggest coming down here at nighttime instead of in the daytime
It can be quite hot in Jakarta. Hello. Magic Art Museum. 3D art
You can see the whole way they spelled Jakarta. With a D
Is this tattoo? Oh yeah, they're tattooing themselves. Oh no, he's engraving something
Okay This is more of an old Dutch colonial place just like the old Dutch village
So you'll see like some Dutch influence here Well, see if we get across the street here
Alright, so if you guys plan to take a train across Java, you would come here to Jakarta
Kota, which is the train station. Yeah, so, Station Jakarta Kota
from here you can go to bandung bandung i think is what it's called uh chokakarta chokjakarta yeah
it was used on world war one first world war japanese soldier japanese soldier bike ah is this samurai
the bike world war ii they come here i'm here my character i'm finished to our soldier to come
Still very old world
I think we can look at a train here. I think they call it a fast train
Well, I'm back here at the Jakarta Grand Hyatt in front of Plaza Indonesia
Yep. It's such a busy road, I'm trying to figure out how to get up on top of there, get a good
view of the waterfall. But I'm not quite sure how to do that