Queuing for a Bit of Vacation

Last 8th of July was the presidential election day in Indonesia, and acknowledged as public holiday in Indonesia. After taking my right to elect one of the candidate I immediately went to Ragunan Zoo, one of my favorite place in Jakarta to taking pictures. Apparently I was not the only one person who decided to take a little bit of vacation and taking pictures at the zoo. There was a very long line of motorcycles queuing to enter the zoo.

Nothing Can Stop Him

Look at this guy, I like the way he enjoys life. Nothing can't stop him to be happy on his way.

At the time it was holiday in Indonesia, and Ragunan, the zoological park in Jakarta full of people from many places. It was difficult to get a place to lying down or sit at the green grass park where people usually spread out their mat and lying down or sit down with their family.























This guy might be too tired but never running out of ideas to anticipate the situation. He just spread out newspaper on the passage way where people walking back and forth and lying down there.

It's not the best place to lie down off course. It even not nice to be seen. What is nice in my point of view is the way he enjoys himself even in an unconditional situation. I can see it from the way he smoke. There's nothing can stop him.

Fall Down Tree at Ragunan, Jakarta

I feel so lucky and thankful to God today. This afternoon (Saturday, 29 Nov 08) a horrible accident happen in front of my eyes. When I wanted to have a little bit exercise at Ragunan Zoo area, a very big tree fall down just few meters from me and hit few cars there. Before the accident, the wind blows very hardly and finally had the tree fall down. But I believe the kind of trees planted has also caused the accident.

Goverment should plant a stronger tree instead of the fragile one. I'm afraid that this kind of accident not only happened in Ragunan today. As I remember accident like this happens every year in Jakarta.

This is another picture to show you how big the tree was.

Komodo

Have you ever seen komodo? Kodomo is originally lives in an island called Komodo Island, in the east of Indonesia. However to be able to see komodo you don't need to go to Komodo Island. In Jakarta we can see komodo that lives in Ragunan Zoo, Jakarta. It's believed that komodo is still a family of dinosaurus.


I noticed komodo tend to like hiding in a hole like what you see in above picture. So, if you have a chance to visit Ragunan Zoo, be careful at every hole, as you may be surprised :)