Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

Those who like the outdoors and are looking for a place in Jakarta to go biking with the family, here’s one place that I’d happily recommend :

Ocean EcoPark at Ancol!

Admission to the Park itself is free, but you’d need to pay when entering the ‘Ancol Gate’.

Click HERE for their ticket prices.

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Here’s more info to share with you:

> Lots of bikes available for rent.

Anya and Vai rented the medium-sized ones (Rp25,000 per hour, which is about SG$2.50 per hour)

> For those with younger kids who cannot yet ride a bike on their own, they have ‘electric scooters’ for rent, too.

It’s battery-operated. The adult drives it around (accelerator on the right hand, brake on the left hand), and you can have 1-2 young kids on the scooter with you (in front and on the back)

Note:
Unfortunately they don’t have any ‘child seats / saddles’ installed on their ‘normal bikes’. I hope they will have them in the future!

> It costs quite a lot more to rent the electric scooter: Rp.50,000 for 30 minutes (and so I paid Rp100,000 just so that Brie and I can go around the park too together with the 2 older kids for an hour)

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TIPS:

> Check the ‘battery level’ when you first receive the scooter, make sure it’s at its maximum level.

> After around 20-25 minutes, I notice the scooter tends to slow down (battery runs out, and no power to go up the higher slopes), so it’s better to head back to the rental corner and exchange it with a fully-charged scooter (before it completely stops somewhere far from the rental station! =)

> Do stop to check out the park’s animals! You should be able to spot water buffalos, pelicans, deer, etc.

> I’d recommend going there in the late afternoon, and oh … on a weekday if you wish to avoid the crowd =)

Have fun!!