My First Time in JAKARTA (I Can't Believe This!) 🇮🇩

good afternoon from jakarta indonesia is my first time to be here i am very excited i love jakarta well we'll have to see about that because i've just arrived so we'll find out if i do indeed love jakarta now we have a very special mission today we are heading to the national monument i'm gonna take the metro or the mrt the subway i don't know what you call it i'm very i'm very new to jakarta i don't know what you call anything i don't know the language i don't know anything so we're gonna figure it out as we go i can't even i can't even read that sign i can't read anything oh i can read that block a right so we're heading in to the metro station now this is asian station the streets are hustling and bustling and thriving with life this guy's selling some kind of drinks right so we're heading in the station now and um i don't know i don't know anything as i said i'm fresh i'm fresh off the plane on the streets of jakarta i don't even know how you pronounce jakarta should i pronounce it more like jakarta or jakarta anyway we're going in now hello uh to the national monument uh yeah you want to buy single single okay thank you thank you okay thank you okay i have made it inside i have my ticket i have no idea uh what station he said i should get off at i just heard something oh he said bondaran i think bondaran bondaran wow this is i'm experiencing everything for the first time these are the tracks of the mrt it looks quite clean and fresh i'm very excited i'm very excited to be here in jakarta it's my first time i'm uh i'm uh i'm still being taken aback by everything let me just calm down for a second let me just sit down let me just sit down okay i'm getting i'm getting too excited oh it has a little map on the ticket that's quite useful and it cost me 13 000 i don't know what the money is called uh i do know rupiah indonesian rupiah cost me 13 000 indonesian rupiah and uh just waiting for the train now the journey begins and here is the train all aboard please all aboard let's head inside now to to the national monument i don't know how many stops this is gonna be but we're gonna figure this out as we go wow it is very clean i wonder if you can can you walk in between oh you can oh it is absolutely on this i better check i better check out where am i going let's check the map hold on i just checked on my phone and it said it's gonna take 50 minutes to get there and then when i clicked on the national monument it said that it's closed today today is a monday so there's a there's a slight bump in the in our mission there's a slight road anyway i think we're gonna go there and just take a look at it first and then a new quest um okay so another kind of speed bump i was sat on the train and then i realized it started to go back in the direction that i came from so now so now i've just got off at a station i think i've got to change line the station doesn't this line doesn't go all the way to where i want to go so now i'm off the train and i'm i've switched over to this side i think i've gotta go to bendungan hilir bendungan hilir i think that's where i'm going to oh why it's going off this is not a good start i should have prepared if you don't prepare then prepare to fail but anyway i must say this station is immaculate and there's kind of dancing dancing cheerio guys on the screens there's no rubbish at all there's no kind of creepy guys hanging around or feel completely safe anyway first impression so far of jakarta it's pretty good but the journey continues like over here if this was the uk there'd be a dude laid out on here or he'd probably he'd probably be living there this would be his little house he'd just be laid out on here i guess i'll just lay here wait for the next train back on the train we've acquired uh we've acquired a new side mission and that mission is to uh is to walk down the train and look at people but i should talk quietly because i also i don't want to uh annoy them on their jins i like these little doors that they can just go through and walk around i think on the uh on the london uh underground you can't walk between the passengers whilst it's moving i also noticed that they have these kind of security guys walking around the train so i wonder if there is any kind of criminal activity on the train i mean it seems pretty safe i wonder if that is to uh to stop beggars coming on the on the train that's the only thing i can think of if you guys know let me know in the comments below why do they have the security guys right i decided to get off the train uh just need to get outside and get our bearings it's okay you can tell how safe a country is when on the uh the gates to the metro there's no actual barrier to stop you from sneaking in it's just wide open there's no barrier so i'm guessing jakarta is pretty safe right let's just head outside is this the way outside let's just get outside and see where we are and check google maps i don't know where i've come to i think i'm at some i think i'm at i don't know where i am right let's just let's just look outside it seems i've got off at some kind of uh central business district look at this skyscraper that one kind of reminds me of the uh the skyscraper in bangkok it's very similar and the famous jakarta traffic is in full effect and uh i've heard a lot about the air in jakarta people saying that it's very pollutant um but so far i don't know it doesn't seem it doesn't seem too bad but we'll find out maybe tomorrow i've got a sore throat um let's be careful when we're crossing the road kapinsky hotel over there oh there's a guy taking a picture taking a picture of uh i'm not sure and hyatt hotel over i am staying in the fairmont jakarta uh so i'll give you a tour of that later stick around for that the weather these clouds are not looking so good but i think we're gonna be okay i think it's gonna rain just yet man the streets are really noisy we've got a nice monument there of a man and a woman holding flowers i don't think that is the national monument we're still heading in the direction of the national monument i think the journey i've just popped into a mall now to grab a bit of the ac that's one of the best things about the shopping malls is that you can just utilize the lovely cool ac i must say this is quite a luxurious shopping malls you've got all the luxury brands i'm feeling like jakarta is a very kind of luxurious city you have extreme luxury in some places and then extreme poverty in the in other places oh my god it is luxury they've got a richard mu store should we just pop in and get a richard mill a richard millie costs like as much as a house wear a house on your wrist hublot i don't really like hublot omega not bad james bond wears an omega but you know the king of the king of luxury watches is rolex if you're gonna buy a luxury watch i would say buy a rolex all right let's get out of this mall let's get back on the streets the mission is not over let's get out of here bandaran high astra i think that's probably the station i should have got off at um i don't know if i'm just i could have just stayed on the train i just checked on google maps if i keep walking this way it'll take me like 28 minutes and we'll so all's well ends well everything turned all right in the end man there's so many grab and gojek drivers waiting here for a ride i have the grab app i'm ready to use it if necessary that's a backup if we get extremely lost we can just hop on one of these grab bikes which are really convenient actually just to whiz around the city a louis vuitton store there there's quite a lot of high-end luxury shopping malls just everywhere you go that's another thing that i've found and so far the rain is still holding off it's our lucky day even though the monument's closed maybe they'll magically open it today who knows the journey continues another thing i've noticed about jakarta is that they have square trees god look at this in the background some more skyscrapers just going up adding to jakarta's skyline shiny buildings everywhere it's bedazzling me i was just walking there and that guy behind me he said i cannot film don't point my camera in that direction which you can see there's a japanese flag there i'm guessing that's the japanese embassy maybe he thinks i'm a spy i'm going off there but man these bikes are so loud about to film embassies i mean i was just filming the tree i was only interested in the square tree can you let me off there's another kind of minecraft building over there oh we've got some uh some young workers here at the backbone of the city building they're the ones who are doing all the construction hello doing all the work constructing this mega city from the ground up man the traffic the traffic is in full effect it's actually probably quicker to walk no the quickest is the uh the bikes the grab bikes because they can weave in and out of all the traffic another station there nh farm rim fam rim i don't know how you pronounce that um i'm guessing i could have literally just stayed on the train instead of instead of walking i'm literally walking right alongside the tracks um so anyway walking is healthier we get to breathe we get to breathe in the the fresh air of jakarta i mean it doesn't seem it doesn't seem that bad right so it's healthier to walk anyway you know we're burning lots of calories making room for the uh the lovely indonesian food i'm gonna be trying so i've just checked my google maps and i'm about 18 minutes away from the whoa what's this is this some kind of political uh banners oh it's a mcdonald's right i wonder if they have a kind of special indonesian mcdonald's burger oh and i just saw over there is a burger king and a popeye's chicken oh they've got a 3d screen up there i think we're you see quite a mix of different people on the streets um and i just found out that indonesia is a majority muslim country with over over 80 of the people are muslim but you do see quite a varied mix of different kind of people um like east asian indian chinese um i didn't see that many foreigners i saw a few uh few of the old kind of banking kind of old men foreigners um i didn't see many young foreigners around anyway oh hello lots of lots of friendly friendly people i did i did see that oh what's this police uh police bike there's lots of action going off everywhere you look it's non-stop action mocha coffee to go i'm actually getting quite a bit peckish now i've not eaten i've not ate the whole day and it is now 4 20. so uh could do with shoving some kind of food in my mouth oh my god i have arrived i have arrived there it is in front of me my journey it's closed every monday closed monday four o'clock england uk it's closed and this looks like the exit so it is indeed closed but at least we got a glimpse of it and also i believe that you can go to the top of it um i think i'm at the wrong i'm at the wrong side as well maybe i could just sneak in through those doors nah there's no chance anyway at least we got a glimpse of it i think we'll come back on another day and try and get to the top of it man look at all this um barbed wire i guess it's trying to stop people from sneaking in um let's try and head around this way i've also heard that there's a very famous mosque we have a new mission acquired to the mosque let's uh let's see if we can see it which way man there's so much barbed wire better watch out i might get tangled up in it oh and there is no there is no path where am i supposed to go okay we're going on the road oh there's people on the bridge above i'm getting the feeling uh it's quite difficult to walk around jakarta and it's probably better just to uh just to get one of these bikes or a taxi or something i've just walked around to the uh to the front gate so it is closed on a monday beautiful i guess we'll have to come back on another day good afternoon from the unexpectedly sunny jakarta look at that blue sky i don't know what people talking about with the uh with the smog just look at that clear blue skies here in jakarta indonesia a city of around 11 million people man the weather is just lovely today this is i've been in jakarta this is the sixth day and it there's just been no sun we haven't seen the sun and now look at this the heat is intense but i like it i like the intense heat man this is beautiful look at all this kind of uh i don't know what trees they are if anyone knows tell me in the comments below oh and those trees are beautiful as well man this is really a nice area there it is let's get closer to the monument oh man this uh this heat is intense i've just done right i don't know what's going on i've just done a full lap around and there's no way no way in how do you get in i'm guessing there's some kind of underground passage man this heat i feel like i'm in sahara desert it's intense how do you get in right next to it hold on oh entrance huh so the entrance that's a little bit confusing the entrance is this way so you walk away from it ah it is underground ah the guy's waving ah that makes sense underground entrance heading underground now and i believe this is where you get your ticket or to get into the shade i get tickets here wow underground passage thank you okay got my ticket it cost me uh it cost me 45 000 uh and i've got also got a number a waiting number to go to the top i'm number 20 right so we're going inside now it's kind of like walking in an underground bunker i'm getting excited now i wonder how you go to the top i wonder if they have little stairs that you can go you can take back back into the intense heat oh i can't see anything i'm inside there it is oh it's beautiful oh it's huge oh i see light i see light at the end of the tunnel i guess all these people are also waiting to go to the top man there must be a big queue 1 to 35 ah i guess that's me so i'm in the next uh i'm in the next batch of people to go in man i'm so sweaty i'm sweating nice views though i bet the view at the top is great thank you thank you how about you you want photo no no no photo oh he doesn't want a photo okay okay okay okay just some guys want to take a photo i guess they don't see many uh don't see many foreign foreign faces so it seems like it says sessi 4 that is group 4 but my ticket is sessi 25 so it looks like i'm still waiting i've been here about being here about 10 minutes um it's still pretty hot even though you stand in the shade but i like the intense heat so i prefer to stand in the in the in the sun just to feel the intenseness of it just to try and feel something uh still waiting still waiting to go in as you can see there's still there's quite a lot of people who are also in group number five so i don't know how long it's to be i hope it's not too long i will continue to stand in the sun until it's my turn it's been about 20 minutes now still waiting still waiting to go in i can't imagine because it doesn't look that busy i can't imagine when it's busy how long you're going to be waiting um to be waiting 20 minutes let's hope it's worth it it's called my number i think i have a chance of going in right let's just see if i can get in okay just one okay okay we're heading to the lift now total waiting time 30 minutes not bad 30 minutes i can't imagine when it's busy how long you're going to be waiting because i didn't think it's that busy it's 132 meters tall still waiting to get into the lift now total waiting time 40 minutes i almost made it in the weight limit there's an 800 kilogram weight limit man that is it's now been one hour one hour waiting time man i'm next surely i'm next the lift is right there oh it's so long like sardines the lift the lift can't actually take that many people they need to kind of upgrade the lift because the amount of people that are coming in lift can't handle it so i'm waiting like for an hour so freedom it is a pretty good view though and you can see across the entire city of jakarta was it worth the one hour wait let's uh let's take a quick look around was it worth was it worth it i would say it was not worth the one hour wait oh man a one hour wait and then i spent like three minutes looking around and then and then i also had to queue to get down again is it worth it well i guess if you really want to see that view then it's worth it but with such a long waiting time people taking a picture with such a long waiting time maybe if it was a 10 minute waiting time then it's not so bad there's another building over there it looks like some kind of palace um but you can't even uh you can't even get close to it you can't even cross the road i'm guessing that might be the is that the president's house is that the indonesian white house um actually i don't know do they have a do they have a royal family in indonesia i'm pretty sure they have a president but do they also have a royal family if anyone knows then tell me in the comments below i'm also not sure what this building is so if anyone knows then tell me in the comments below you can see the indonesian flag they're flying high it's got a lot of security on the building as well oh my god there's a huge kind of um cannon there oh my god look at that where is it where are they uh where are they planning on firing to oh you can see them there wow am i heading the right direction where am i going i'm trying to find the mosque is it this way um i just realized something i'm wearing shorts so even if there is a kind of tour a little tour you can do of the mosque i don't think i'll be able to get in because i'm wearing shorts um but anyway we'll just try and get a uh we'll just try and get a glimpse of the mosque bus station there some street stalls street food i've not had any food yet i'm really hungry what was this i see a lot of like cars with the little blue light on they look like they're some kind of like government car or something oh you can get a uh tuk tuk ah that's the mosque and it doesn't look like you can even go inside okay so that is that is place number two and we couldn't get inside we can just stand at a maybe this is the exit wait hold on hold on we're not giving up just yet maybe that's the exit i mean i don't know if i can even get in anyway if you fail to prepare then prepare to fail the journey continues oh so you can go in hello can look at the mosque close for visit uh tomorrow is open yes and uh 10 o'clock until 15 10 until 3 uh okay just be 30 and uh 10 to 3 okay and uh can wear shorts or or no uh it's no problem you have some yes something to wear yes ah okay okay so tomorrow okay okay thank you okay that lovely young man just told me uh tomorrow so we're gonna come back tomorrow for the uh the mosque and for the monument oh i just acquired a new quest there's a cathedral nearby let's go check it out surely the cathedral won't let us down the journey continues on to the cathedral let's go and there she is right let's try and uh cross this road without getting run over and see if we can get inside man okay okay hold on hold on okay we made it i made it i'm i'm safe and well can we go inside it looks like we can go inside wow she is a real beauty you wouldn't really expect to see a kind of uh cathedral like this in um in asia um let's find out what what kind of uh kind of cathedral is it i'm not too sure if you can go in or not i'm just kind of following these people it does look pretty nice i feel uh i feel blessed now i don't know what kind i still don't know what kind of uh cathedral is it i mean i know it's christianity but what kind now how do i get out is that jesus just chilling out there ah yeah it must be because a hole in the foot from the old crucifixion right anyway back on the streets back out to the streets of jakarta jakarta and the rain has still held off i cannot believe it these gray clouds have been looming the entire video that is pretty nice it's pretty um it's pretty um what's the word i'm looking for it's pretty um breathtaking spiritual when you go inside you get that kind of you get that feeling the spiritual feeling now it's suddenly gotten really dark so now is a good time to leave i've ordered a trusty little grab bike and uh we're going back to my hotel now the fairmont jakarta uh so we'll give you a little tour of the hotel it's a pretty nice hotel just waiting on the bike now let's go oh yeah it's me okay let's get on the bike oh help me okay help me on first safety first they're actually really good getting these grab bikes because you get this free tour around the city there's a bye-bye to the cathedral there my god look at this you can see across the city there okay thank you thank you okay we have arrived back at the fairmont jakarta hello they have quite tight security everywhere there you go quite tight on the security this is the lobby oh man oh man that was such a long journey i wasn't expecting it to be that long um anyway let's um let's rate our driver guy and let's give him a little tip give him a tip more than the price of the entire ride you know he deserves it working hard especially on a distance that long anyway right up to the room these are the corridors um it is quite a pricey hotel the room that we are in 1624 there here's the card let's swipe to get in this room costs about 300 us dollars per night you've got a little toilet by the door an extra toilet nice little dining table huge living room it's a hundred square meters this room around 300 us dollars per night with breakfast and that is super pricey you've got a nice view of a golf course and the sunset there and then the traffic down below we actually booked a um sky suite suite which is cheaper than this room and that has a kind of little kitchen area so this room although it's bigger and more expensive it doesn't have a kitchen thing it only just has a fridge let's check inside the fridge here you've got all that kind of stuff that was all filled in the fridge i had to take it out and put it on the side here to put our stuff in the fridge because obviously we don't want to be used paying for a sprite when it costs 40 000 how much is 40 000 how many in us dollar 40 000 is it like 40 000 that's like seven dollars is it if anyone knows tell me in the comments below and then you come over into the bedroom quite a huge bed um good size i think it's about two meters width now let's do a bed test hold on bed test quite comfortable oh quite comfortable really soft i think they've added some kind of extra like padding on here uh you got like a walk-in wardrobe place iron um you can just iron things yeah that's good okay wait how do i put it back okay uh nice big wardrobe with a safe to put all your gold bars in um and all your money in um i don't think i've ever used a hotel safe i see some some other vloggers and they put their laptop inside the hotel safe i mean who do you think is going to steal their laptop i mean especially in a hotel like this i don't think you have to worry about your valuables to be honest with you room room room housekeeping i don't think then over here we've got a lovely massive quite a massive bathroom two sinks his and her sinks and a little makeup mirror listen i don't know if you can hear that that's the call to prayer you better get used to that in indonesia you'll always hear it and then we've got another toilet so i showed you before we've got two toilets this is the first hotel room that i've been in has two toilets that's crazy uh and then over here we have a shower with a rain kind of shower there and the other shower here then quite a big bath oh it's very uh it's very echoey inside over here okay it's very echoey it's got good acoustics in there all right head on out let's head on out i hate they used to in hotels they used to give you like loads of little little things and now now they've kind of transferred in they just put it in these little tubs stuck on the wall got another view there across jakarta you can see there's a stadium there football stadium some other kind of stadium more traffic another view of the golf course and then the lovely jakarta traffic below there got a nice little desk area pretty comfy usually you don't get a good uh a good desk chair to uh sit at your computer but this one is pretty good good leg to uh leg to desk height ratio quite comfortable for editing all the videos another tv there wait how many tv oh we've got two tvs big tv there mirror here so you can check yourself out okay did i show everything this one couch oh the tv's there another tv there this couch is actually really comfy as well you could also just sleep here if you wanted to okay i'm gonna sleep now i don't know if you can see that wait let's turn all the lights off that's a pretty nice sunset there's one thing that i've that's um you would expect to be better if you press master that all the lights go off but it doesn't um so anyway right can we see okay wow look at this oh that is such a good view that is just a beautiful uh beautiful sunset of jakarta maid left a little note which is quite sweet it says dear mr jason pie i don't know why she wrote pie jason pie why did she write pie oh it's rick it's rick oh that's my middle name richard j but why she wrote jason rick anyway thank you for thank you for stay at fairmont jakarta we hope you are happy staying with us we make this arrival towel for you and we give extra extra something capsule and mineral water we hope you're always happy with us and your days are also fun happy good day mr jason room attendant sonia okay very sweet kind letter from sonia i thank you for that she made like a little towel dinosaur but it was it's already been destroyed now unfortunately they also have bottles of water which is free free water um kind of similar to in bangkok in thailand hotels they also put the water wait they also put the water in glass bottles and refill them i guess that's some kind of environmental thing okay there's some leftovers that i had earlier i mean this is this is probably one of the best things in indonesia silver queen ever since i've had this i've been dreaming about getting another one this is better than cabris better than mars better than galaxy better than dove better than oreo silver queen should be silver king is there a silver king maybe someone should make that really good 10 out of 10 chocolate bar what's in here empty wardrobe let's just check inside of here okay just make sure that everything is safe okay oh the light's gone off okay yeah everything's okay inside of here it's not a box there what is that there's a mysterious white box in the corner this is panasonic oh is that the modem i mean that's the internet modem anyway the second toilet it's also one of those kind of electric toilets i believe that can shoot water directly up your bottom um if you're into that kind of thing anyway so that's the room tour and instead of pressing the button like do not disturb or please make up my room it's they've gone for the old-fashioned way of hanging this on the door um so yeah just ordered some uh nice uh indonesian food i don't know if you've heard of this dish um it's called pizza a nice indonesian pizza there this one's hawaiian this one's some milano and then also got some uh look at this one thick bread let's try this let's try this indonesian pizza that's pretty good 8.4 out of 10 oh man oh that was a nice little snack now it's time for dessert just a little uh little snack just a few donuts here not too many you know i want to get i don't want to have too many just uh 12 there and then how many is here okay um i don't want to have too many let's not forget the milk as well okay nice little indonesian snack here okay cheers wait can you see me cheers oh oh hello there oh just uh laying on my bed in my room oh wait no i'm at the pool side area let me give you a little tour around here it's a little bit dark so i'll probably have to do hotel tour later that's the outside of the hotel there got a lovely uh pool here some uh lounges that you can come and sunbathe in oh let's see it's night time now so there's no sun and actually there is a uh thunderstorm i just saw some lightning flash earlier let's see if we can catch any on camera i don't know should you should you go swimming should you go swimming when it's lightning i don't know i guess the hotel staff would have the hotel staff would have told us to go back inside if they thought we were in danger it is oh it's slightly a little bit chilly okay okay oh it's nice though once you're in oh it's really peaceful and relaxing especially when it's empty um so yes i'm not i'm not too sure what's the rules when when it's when there's lightning because we're on the fourth floor so we're not that high up so i'm guessing the lightning wouldn't strike the water first it would strike the top of the building if anyone knows then let me know should i be getting out of the pool maybe that's why there's no one in the pool i just saw a flash a nice little jacuzzi i don't know if you can see anything because it's so dark let's just get in hold on let me just come to the middle of the jacuzzi because there's a bit of a light here okay okay i've got a bit of a light okay you can see me oh one of the one of the jets is shooting right up there anyway that is not the end of the journey it continues right here yes i'm waiting until you click