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Jakarta
Boom Town
A Big City Offering Big Delights
Jakarta’s size and infrastructure can prove challenging at times, but the Indonesian capital also offers travelers plenty worth writing home about. A partial list includes haggling with vendors at the Jalan Surabaya market, taking in Merdeka Square’s many monuments and museums, touring the eighteenth-century Buddhist compound of Jin De Yuan, and exploring the various gardens and other sights within the sprawling Taman Mini Indonesia Indah park.