Trip to Taman Safari Cisarua

The last long weekend we went to Taman Safari Cisarua, Bogor.
It turns out that it was already 3 years ago since we went there. Last time it was on April as well!
What a coincidence!

To avoid traffic, we went there on Thursday morning before the holiday, and went back on Friday when people were just coming up. We actually planned to go on Wednesday, but Daniel had diarrhea, so we decided to postpone the trip to Thursday. The only setback on this was the different hotel rate, which was quite a lot :)

We left Jakarta at about 7.30ish and arrived about 10.30am, which was quite good considering Toma accidentaly forgot to take left turn to Jagorawi. So we ended up taking the nearest exit and went back to the reverse direction, which traffic was quite bad (due to weekdays where everybody still on Jakarta bound).

Immediately after reaching Puncak, we were greeted with a cool and fresh air...
Learning from previous trip, we bought 7 bundles of carrots to feed the animals in the street near Taman Safari (3 bundles = Rp 10,000, if you buy 2 you receive 1 bundle extra). There were several carrot seller in the street. I guess they were offering the same price. So you don't have to choose whose to buy from.. (not a good business btw).

Upon arriving, we went to the Safari Lodge/Caravan Hotel (I will make a separate post about this) to confirm our reservation and received the free tickets to Taman Safari.

If you don't stay at the hotel the entrance fees are as follows:
Entrance fee for adult: Rp 150,000
Entrance fee for kids > 1 year: Rp 140,000
Car: Rp 15,000

Then, off we go!

Like most people, we drove around the safari trails and feed the animals first before going to the play areas.

Toma opened all of our car's windows.. so ocassionally there were animals peeking through the window which caused me to scream and kind of scared Daniel.. (sorry kiddo... )

When we passed through the lion's area, a lion suddenly walked accross  the street..., my heart kindda stopped a while hehehe
It was a "truly safari" experience.

some of the amateur photos that i took 

After finishing the safari trail, we went to have lunch at the food court.
I was a bit surprised with the food price.. it was quite expensive and the taste was very substandard..
Maybe next time I consider to bring lunch from home and have picnic in there :)

After having lunch we went to the penguin area.., looking at the tiny penguins and took some pics..
It was the first time I saw penguins in Indonesia.. I think there were none in Batu Secret Zoo.

Then we went to catch the cowboy show at 2pm
We were there a bit too early, so we explored the area first. There were some cows (very smelly though...) and small artificial waterfall and river... There was a souvenir shop as well, which has a good variety of animal dolls...

The cowboy show area was large,  i think it was the largest area among all the shows.
Daniel was a bit scared at first due to the sound of gunshot, etc..  He held me very tight.., but after a while he was okay. I put my hands on his ears just in case.
I think the show was not really appropriate for children since it involved mild violence..
However, the show was quite good, in terms of the sound effect and props.
It's a bit "hollywood" kind of stunt..

in front of cowboy show area

beginning of the show.. (i didn't take any more pics because it wasn't allowed)

From Cowboy Show we drove and parked near penguin area to see the sea lion show.
The sea lion show was quite similar to the one we saw at Ancol Dream Samudra.
There were 3 sea lions, one female (named Cinta Laura btw hehehe) and two males..
The highlight of the show was the trainer climbed on the pole (which has two red balls), and put the fish on her mouth. The sea lion had to jump from inside the pool to eat the fish right from the trainer's mouth :) I wondered what if the sea lion missed and eat the trainer's mouth instead.. >_<

sea lion show's setup

take pictures first.. 

After sea lion show we sent to see the tiger show.
The kids were already very tired and sleepy... while waiting Daniel was fallen asleep and slept throughout the whole show.. Faith was also very sleepy, but she woke up when the show just began.

This was the first tiger show that I watched.
Even though the tiger were properly trained, I could see that the trainers were very alerted.. not laid back like the sea lion's trainers..

tiger show

After the tiger show, since we were already tired, we decided to go back to the hotel...

The next day, since we were the hotel's guests, we can enter the Taman Safari again, but not the Safari trails. So we decided to pick up what we haven't seen on Thursday (gak mau rugi hehe)

First stop was to the Baby Zoo..
Inside the baby zoo was a collection of birds..., kangaroo, orangutan and also tiger/lion.
We can also take pictures with the tiger/lion with Rp 20,000 per person..

suspension bridge.. daniel was so happy jumping on the bridge :)

in front of kangaroo

birds and waterfall

While taking pictures, i heard a mom told her son about Faith,,, "tuh liat dia aja berani...." 

Then suddenly the lion waved her tail... and look at Faith's expression :)
Faith takut juga kok tante hehehe

We also saw Elephant show, but i didn't take any pictures..
We also offered Faith for pony ride but she didn't want it.
There were a lot that we didn't do in Taman Safari such as riding the camel/elephant, playing at the mini themed park, or swimming at the waterpark. But we were more than happy.

Since it was already around noonish, we decided to go to Cimory to catch some lunch before heading home.