Taman Mini Indonesia Indah

Our last full day in Jakarta and we decided to spend the morning at Taman Mini a 150 hectare park - where is the mini in that -which offers a glimpse of the 33 provinces, divided more or less along ethno-cultural lines. It opened in 1975 and the principal feature of the park is that the many pavillions are actual size reproductions of the architecture of each province. Clothing and traditional activities are on display as well as reptiles, birds, insects and other indigenous creatures.

Pavillion of Indonesian culture covering the various provinces.

Throne in the Sumatra pavillion.

Replica of Papuan boatmen.

I am afraid that is the best view we could get of the Komodo Dragon, the largest lizard in the world.

Andrew with a smaller monitor lizard.  Quite friendly obviously.

 and with a medium sized python - one of his party tricks.

Tomorrow we leave Jakarta for Amsterdam.  The only worry is that it is 1 May tomorrow and Mayday demonstrations are the thing in Indonesia, workers protesting about all sorts of conditions.  The roads are expected to be blocked for a good part of the day and this year the demonstrators are apparently targeting the international airport in an attempt to get the Prime Minister's attention.  We are, understandably worried about our transport to the airport.  This international travel business is not without hassles.