MizReeney: Jakarta Aquarium, Indonesia

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Jakarta Aquarium, Indonesia

Jakarta malls are notoriously big. And the new mall called Neo SoHo, is so big that it even houses an aquarium! On two floors some more!

The price of a Standard ticket is Rp.175,000, which is about SG$17.50, it's a little steep for Indonesian standards, and there's also no child price. Do check out their website before you go, as there as different pricing for different timings and packages.

The place itself is quite spacious and it's unlikely that you'll be elbow to elbow with other visitors. There's plenty of room on the day we visited on a Sunday, then again it is still new, so there's not many people visiting it yet.

The first thing that you are greeted with when you enter is not an aquarium, but rather, a fake aquarium. Yes that's right, I said fake. It's actually an LED screen with fish swimming around on the screen. Why do they have to do that? It's so weird. Perhaps costs too much to have too many aquariums.

You can spend a good 1 - 1.5 hours there depending on how long you spend on each exhibit and whether you have kids, etc. There are enough things there that you won't really be bored, and it is educational for the kids.

One of the best exhibits there was this glass flooring that you can walk on top and underneath is the big aquarium with the big fishes like stingray, giant grouper, shark, etc. It's like those glass bridges that you can see straight down to the ground. I got all excited because I hadn't seen that elsewhere.