Bogor Botanical Garden
Bogor can be said as the suburb of Jakarta city located 60 kms south of Jakarta. The city has a very nice weather with very famous Botanical Garden called Bogor Botanical Garden. The park has more than 15.000 species from world wide. Bogor has also Taman Safari, as beautiful panorama as Bogor Botanical Garden, the park has become very popular sightseeing place for people from Jakarta and Bandung, or even foreign tourists. The area between Bogor and the Puncak Pass is believed to be the water reservoir of Jakarta city with it's forever green. Today dozen of villas are scattered around the area up to the Puncak which is become the most sought week-end overnight hide away. Puncak Pass is well known from Dutch era of 19th century as the place for tea estate with magnificent green plateau views. Today the tea plantation is still managed well by the company belong to the state called Perkebunan Enterprise. Here you will see the pick-up of young tea leaves, processing, and and even taste the original tea produced locally.
The area around Puncak which is often reffered as Puncak Pass is the mian route from Jakarta to Central and East Java. The route from Bandung to Jakarta via Bogor is the most beautiful natural view that one could enjoy in Java after natural beauties such as Mount Bromo and mount Ijen in East Java. This area is one of the highlight of what is called Java Overland tours starting from Jakarta to the eaterntip of Java island. The area from Bogor to Cisarua town has been a problem to the city of Jakarta because most of the green areas are now taken by investors to build villas, recreations and hotels. This project has caused the hygroscopic potential of the area decreasing steadily and every rainy season causing great flood in the city of Jakarta.
