Day 15 - Exploring Batu
These last few days have been quite busy. The nice people here at the institute have showed us what the beautiful city of batu have to offer. We started the week with a hike up the hill right next to the school.
The hike was not very long, but the rain had made the hill muddy, so it became more challenging than expected. The view quickly became spectacular as we climbed through the green hills amongs chili plantations, tall trees and beautiful flowers.
When we reached the top after 1,5 hour the clouds cleared and the city appeared in front of us. A very different view compared to the mountains around Seoul.
Batu
After a quick rest after the morning hike, Benny took us to Malang (a bigger city 30 minutes from Batu) that is known for its football team, the crazy lions. They are supposedly the best in the country. In Malang we visited a house where Emily's dad Peter and his family lived in in the 60's. The house is now a church. Before heading back for some much needed sleep we had dinner at Malangs main plaza.
Tuesday we decided to go to the Taman Safari Park. We were told that we would drive amongs Tigers and Elephants, so we packed a lunch and drove 1 hour outside Batu. The safari turned out to be like a zoo that you drove through. The twist was that the animals walked around right outside the car. You were allowed to feed some of the animals (Llamas, Camels, Deer, Zebras and ostriches), but had to drive through automatic gates and constantly be moving when we visited tigers, lions and bears. It was quite an experiance to feed zebras that came right up to your car and have huge tigers and lions walk around 2 meters in front of you.
When the safari came to its end, we headed in to the more regular part of the park. In there we saw a few more or less spectacular animal shows with elephants, orangutangs, lions and tigers. In the park there was also a restaurant where you could eat when 2 white tigers where walking around on the other side of a glass window. This we chose not to do.
We did choose to take pictures with some of the younger animals at the zoo instead. Emily got to cuddle with a baby tiger while I got to hug a young little orangutang. The big white tiger that I was supposed to take a picture with was a bit cranky and roared a lot. I was happy that I did not choose to hug it when the zoo keepers took it away and the tiger pulled the two pretty helpless men around at its will.
A white tiger on the loose!
It has been a quite packed and very exciting few days here in southeast Java.
The hike was not very long, but the rain had made the hill muddy, so it became more challenging than expected. The view quickly became spectacular as we climbed through the green hills amongs chili plantations, tall trees and beautiful flowers.
When we reached the top after 1,5 hour the clouds cleared and the city appeared in front of us. A very different view compared to the mountains around Seoul.
BatuAfter a quick rest after the morning hike, Benny took us to Malang (a bigger city 30 minutes from Batu) that is known for its football team, the crazy lions. They are supposedly the best in the country. In Malang we visited a house where Emily's dad Peter and his family lived in in the 60's. The house is now a church. Before heading back for some much needed sleep we had dinner at Malangs main plaza.
Tuesday we decided to go to the Taman Safari Park. We were told that we would drive amongs Tigers and Elephants, so we packed a lunch and drove 1 hour outside Batu. The safari turned out to be like a zoo that you drove through. The twist was that the animals walked around right outside the car. You were allowed to feed some of the animals (Llamas, Camels, Deer, Zebras and ostriches), but had to drive through automatic gates and constantly be moving when we visited tigers, lions and bears. It was quite an experiance to feed zebras that came right up to your car and have huge tigers and lions walk around 2 meters in front of you.
When the safari came to its end, we headed in to the more regular part of the park. In there we saw a few more or less spectacular animal shows with elephants, orangutangs, lions and tigers. In the park there was also a restaurant where you could eat when 2 white tigers where walking around on the other side of a glass window. This we chose not to do.
We did choose to take pictures with some of the younger animals at the zoo instead. Emily got to cuddle with a baby tiger while I got to hug a young little orangutang. The big white tiger that I was supposed to take a picture with was a bit cranky and roared a lot. I was happy that I did not choose to hug it when the zoo keepers took it away and the tiger pulled the two pretty helpless men around at its will.
A white tiger on the loose!It has been a quite packed and very exciting few days here in southeast Java.
Cool to see!
Just noticed the happy-faced Indonesian woman amongst the beautiful vegetation in the first photo of your hike. Enjoyed the wildlife candids.
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