Day trip from Jakarta to Bogor botanical gardens and Taman Safari Park

December 2012

Another idea to spend a free day around Jakarta is a day tour to Bogor, the city known for hosting one of the largest botanical gardens in the world. Within a relatively short distance, you can find also Taman Safari Park, a large safari park that is home to many animals coming from different places of the world.

Bogor is located about 60 kilometers from Jakarta and hosts one of the world's largest botanical garden, called in Indonesian "Kebun Raya Bogor". Here you can find hundreds of different plant species, coming from all parts of the world.

Bamboo bushes along the paths that run through the botanical garden of Bogor.

In Bogor botanical garden, there are many plants that are normally grown in our apartments for ornamental purposes. In the photos, a false bird-of-paradise (Heliconia pendula, pictured left) and a hedge of Dieffenbachia (known as "dumb cane", pictured above).

A sausage tree.

Some pools in the botanical gardens of Bogor, hosting giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica, pictured above) and common water lilies (Nymphaea alba, pictured below).