This is by far the best safari that I have been to in South East Asia.
Taman Safari Indonesia is located about an hours drive between Jakarta and Bogor, West Java on 168 hectares. Before you reach the safari you will find kids on the side of the road trying to sell you bunches or carrots or bananas to feed the animals . My advice is to stop to buy them as the first part of the safari allows you to hand feed the animals from your car window!
It was hilarious, the girls and I were sitting in the back seat and a buffalo of some sort put its head through our window to get fed carrots, all you heard was screaming and Becka trying to wind the window up with its head still inside the car! It was an amazing experience to handfeed zebras and camels from your car window - we loved it!
They have so many animals there along with a bird sanctuary, so once you've had time to walk around them you can enjoy one of the many shows that they put on. We took time out to watch an elephant show where they painted on T Shirts which you could later purchase. There is also a lion show and in the afternoon a Cowboy show.
The highlight of the whole safari for the girls would have to be the Baby Zoo, here you could pay 10,000 Rupiah which is just over USD$1 to sit with a tiger, orangutan or leopard and take photos. Each one was only 10 months old.
The safari is a whole day trip, but a word from the wise.... arrive early and leave early! we arrived around 10am and left at 2pm, that way we missed all the traffic and it wasnt busy at the safari.
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