Visiting Taman Safari Indonesia

Visiting Taman Safari Indonesia

Sunday, March 30th 2014, me, my father, my brother and sister in law are planned to join yearly my father's work office recreation, and this year the destination is Taman Safari Indonesia (TSI), Cisarua Bogor. Taman Safari Indonesia (TSI) is conservation center or modern zoo place where we can enjoy safari experience , means we can watch all animals are not in caged, but free living in their natural place.

At 6.00 AM we have to arrive at meeting point at The Office , Bandengan, West Jakarta, and after that we have to wait until all participants are completely arrive. After 2 hours waiting, finally we can get in to the bus, total we are using 4 buses, our bus is no.4, and accompanied by cloudy weather and little rain we are moving to TSI, TSI located in Cisarua Bogor, estimated 2 hours driving from Jakarta if not traffic jam. AT 11.00 AM our bus has reaching TSI entrance gate, and as we know entering TSI means we have to using vehicle, such as cars, buses or other accomodation that are provided by TSI, because we have to entering safari area, which all animals, including the tame and wild animals are living free, so we have to be in caged in our vehicle then if so, he2x.But for certain, this is the most enjoying moments where we can watch them live and running free near us.the ticket price approx 150 ribu rupiah (about usd 15) per person as a group that allow us to enjoy almost all of their attraction and places.

Our first step is Elephant Area, where we can see some elephants are eating, walking, and this gonna be funny moment too, when some of the participants are yelling " look at elephants trunk, it's very big" and whole bus passenger are smiling. The second are is Hippopotamus area, we are amuse when we saw the hipo opened his mouth wider. Then deer, bear, are waiting to meet us, some cars are open their windows to feed them, though this is not suggested.

The next area are mountain goat, where we are amazed with how they can climbing so high to the high cliff there, After that here the moments, when we have to closed all doors and windows area, that means we are entering wild animals area, first we met Cheetah, that lying on the grass, and leopard are sleeping on the tree, yes they are nocturnal animals that means they are sleeping in daytime, while active in night, so if you wanna have more thriling moments you can have safari night at TSI every saturday night. Then we saw 3 male lions and 2 tiger, when we saw tiger, i can say in my heart wow, this is incredible creature that ever made, they are very handome, gallant, even they are not tame animals, but their existing in part of food chain in this world.

After wild animals, we are back watching tame animals and start to leaving safari area, and this is means we have to start our walking experience climbing road to enjoy more attractive places, even interactive moments with some animals.

We enter an area which is looks like large aquarium, they have about 4-6 large aquariums that consist of wild and rare animals such as Javan Leopard, Asiatic Golden Cat, Black Panther. Macan Tutul Jawa (Javan Leopard-Panthera Pardus Melas) are confined to the Indonesian island of Java, and its number is predict is less than 200 individuals now, One cage are attract us to watch, there are 2 animals, one is yellow leopard, other is black panther, and there's a pool inside and between them is not really have good interact, which yellow leopard is moving, black panther seems want to dominate, so the yellow leopard are jumping into the pool , wow we are all amazed how the leopard can be a good swimmer, he is approaching us and even respong our hands that touching the glasswall.

And near this area are baby zoo area, the place where we can take picture with some baby zoo, there are baby lions, baby tiger, baby leopard, and even there's adult male lion, and we can see some of courage people that have taken picture with them. In this are we can enter birds cage, birds are free flying here and there, and we can touch some of them too with zoo guide, there's pelican, beacutiful owl, peacock, and many more.and we can watch bat in their cave too.

It's almost 1.pm, and since we decided to watch Wild Wild West Show at 1.30 pm, so we must hurry to climb the road to the top of TSI area where the show are held.Wild wild west show that are trained by USA trainer are Amazing show for Indonesian people, because for so long time, we have watching on tv about american cowboy, but for now we can watch them live with sound system effect, real cowboys, real explosion, this is one of best selling show in TSI.

And after watching the show we are moving down to entering other places, we visit ghost houses, 8D simulator from korea, giant wheel. But time is already 4.30 pm that means we have to back to our bus immediately and back home, but this adventure to Taman Safari Indonesia really worth it, incredible experience, to get closer to animals and nature.