Located in the north of Jakarta and part of a large entertainment district that includes a theme park, water park, seaworld complex and golf course, Dunia Fantasi is the largest theme park in Indonesia.
The cock-nose character welcoming us to the park.
Having bought tickets you have to enter the park via this long Roman style corridor. Don't forget to take the opportunity to visit the toilet to the left before you enter!
The park's take on the Universal globe.
This is the actual entry to the park. There's a brief security check to go through here.
The park appeared to be really nice with well maintained gardens and grounds.
The first coaster of the day was the lovely looping corkscrew Halilintar, which is Indonesian for "lightning". It ran surprisingly well but getting off the ride we started to feel that something wasn't right with the park. The park had music playing, a repetitive chant of the park name and probably some stuff in Indonesian that we couldn't interpret. This coupled with the tinny sounding speakers was actually inducing serious headaches into one of the group and coupled with the humidity was making getting around the park hard going for them. I could tolerate it but it was challenging, the music more annoying than the heat.
This piece blew me away. Completely stunning and totally inappropriate for the Chinese New Year, which was celebrating the Year of the Dragon.
The second coaster was Alap Alap, a delightful little kiddy coaster that run through really well maintained grounds, then ran through it again, and again, and again, and again. Repetition can kill an enjoyable ride and the operators here just about pushed us over that line :) The name of the ride translates to either Hawk or Thief and I've no idea why they'd name the ride as either.
In an attempt to escape the noise and due to morbid curiousity we decided to subject ourselves to the park's Small World ride and it was actually alright. The music was more annoying outside the attraction than in it, and that has to be the first time anyone has ever said that). The ride has a non-surprising bias towards micronesia with Europe and the rest of the world coming at the end of the attraction. The sheep represent Australia, which I found very amusing. Shaggers!
With one of the group having had enough of the aural dirge and leaving I chose to take a quick tour around the rest of the park and take some more photos. The park does have a decent selection of rides.
and a parade, although nowhere near the scale of say Disney.
The park is actually really really pretty.
Really cool monkey gathering. What I hadn't realised was that it forms the border to a fountain that had been switched off and those moss covered pebbles were surprisingly slippy. If a fat tourist falls in a theme park does he make a noise?
The statue of David, Indonesian stylee!
Dunia Fantasi is a really nice park and if it wasn't for the music and the humidity getting to one of the group, we would have stayed here longer. If I'm sounding a bit over-dramatic about the noise could you tolerate a park that had "small world" playing on a loop with no escape anywhere in the park? Probably not.
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