Travel Diary: Layover in Jakarta

On my way to Alor this year, I chose a different flight path in the hopes of a speedier arrival. I’m not sure if the net experience felt any shorter, but I’d never been to Jakarta before, so something new is good, right? With Jakarta’s traffic, I didn’t do too much exploring outside of wandering around the area around where I stayed. Jakarta, your traffic is laughable, at seemingly non peak hours. Is it just one long rush hour that you just grit your teeth and hope for the best? Not ideal and with more cars, it’s worse than Saigon. Never thought those words would come out of my mouth, but at least with the predominant mode of transport being motorbikes here, you can kind of get in where you fit in.

In any event, my primary concern was finding coffee, so off I went wandering the “scenic” route trying to find some interesting things to shoot along the way. As travel so often has it, the guardians of the universe delivered as I stumbled upon a little antique street on the way. Happy to browse and happily snap away, all of these images (save one) are from that stroll to coffee.

As per usual, the trusty little Fuji x100v was the kit of choice for this trip to keep it light and fast.