Aquatic Park insides Flower Garden - SELECTA, East Java, Indonesia

Searching a place to go with your family in Indonesia? The best choice for you to spend a whole day must be Selecta. Beautiful flower garden combined with water park, like a paradise for kids and a super relaxing place for parents. You can enjoy a bird view of farmland and the refreshing air to clear your mind. 

We drove 30 minutes from city centre of Malang to Selecta. It was raining a bit but it just made the place more paradise-like. We walked through the flower tunnel and smelling the aroma from the rain and flowers. 

Not for long, we could hear kids laughing and cheering while they were playing in the pool, a pool full of joy.

There are horses there can be ride around the garden, accompanied by professional guides. Also, for those who loves adventure can try the ‘Flying Fox’, well, it is not limited for kids. After taking hundreds of photos, we had some food at the food stores. They provide quite a lot of choices, more expansive than normal price but still acceptable. The cotton candy reminded us our childhood.

Horse riding

Flower Garden

 Bird view of farmland

 Cotton candy

SELECTA
Address: Tulungrejo village, Bumiaji district, Batu, East Java, Indonesia

Museum Restaurant - INGGIL Restaurant, Malang, Indonesia

Vintage furniture, old pictures, we stepped into this traditional Indonesian restaurant, well, it was actually more like a museum. We sat on the carpet and looked at the menu. We placed an order for local food, the Le-le fish, fried banana and sate-beef, and we were confusing about the originality of local food between Malaysia and Indonesia. Apparently we could not make a conclusion on this, better we focused more on the appealing decorations. 

While we were waiting for food, we were walking around to take a look of the “exhibitions”. There were collections of radio, clock, and puppet and a stage with traditional music instruments, bringing us back to the 80’s. For a vintage-lover like me, everything was stunning. 

The pray rooms were neat and the seats were spacious, even that the kitchen was open. It was such a cosy place that we would want to stay there for some time after we finished our meal. Food was delicious and fresh. The atmosphere was so good and the most impressive thing was that the waitress there never mind us to stay for a long time even we only ordered little food. 

The price was totally not expansive for this service and environment. If you want to taste more than traditional food, Inggil restaurant is one of the best options.

Rumah Makan Inggil
Address: Jalan Gajah Mada no.4, Malang, Indonesia

Weekly happy carnival - Morning Market on CAR FREE DAY, Malang, Indonesia

The most popular activity for both local citizens and tourists to do on Sundays is Car Free Day. There you can find almost everything you want, including traditional food, shoes, electronics, clothes, souvenirs, exotic reptiles and dog training. It begins really early, so if you want to walk slowly to look everything calmly and enjoy the treasure hunting, you should arrive at around 7 a.m.

We arrived there around 9 a.m., the peak hour in the morning, so it was really crowded already. The first thing that drew our attention was the group dancing, which everyone could join, including children, adult and even elderly. After this, we walked around through the crowd to see what that huge fair could offer us. There we could find a lot of traditional handcrafts and accessories, which are the most suitable souvenirs for girls or those who got many orders of souvenirs. Also, there are T-shirts and batiks with cheap prices, good place for us to prepare for our following trip to Bali.

Later we walked along the main road, on the right side, there were some exhibition of tanks. On the other side we watched a performance by a well-trained dog and took lot of photos with an incredible big snake and lizards. It was a little scary at the beginning but we enjoyed a lot. There were a lot of hawkers selling different kinds of homemade traditional food that we could not even try all! My favourite one was Tempura, kind of fried seafood sausage made of fish and shrimp.

We also saw some students from university society and other groups doing demonstrations to spread their ideas to the citizens, for example, anti-smoking and traditional music dissemination.

One thing annoyed us a bit was that we could not find any garbage bin on the main road, we just found it near the food stalls at the joint of the roads, guess it aimed to keep all the space on the main road usable. It would be better if there were more garbage bins along the road, as it's not so enjoyable to keep the trash while we were doing treasure hunting!

Car Free Day

Jalan Ijen, Kota, Malang, Indonesia