Jatim Park

One of favorite tourism places in Batu is Jatim (is abbreviation of Jawa Timur means East Java) Park.

A park with many things to offer;
- Learning area (Science, math, physics, chemistry, biology, etc)
- Indonesian ethnic area (houses and clothes of all Indonesian ethnics)
- Zoo (mammals area, reptile, bird park, fish park, baby zoo and museum of fossil)
- Water park
- Attractions

Because there is enough to see and to do, Jatim Park is a one whole day park.
When my sister and her daughter from Canada visited us, we brought them to Jatim Park. We were sure that they would like it and they did.

My niece, Kencana is four years old. Pelangi and Anugerah have been to this park for several times. They told and showed Kencana everything what they would see and do. Of course they were looking forward to swim together and play in water.

Although we (my children and I) have been here many times, it was our first time to enter the bird park. At Bird Park we saw beautiful birds with different colors. It was never crowded so you would think that it was not interesting but I was glad that we entered the bird park. Just be careful of bird dropping because there is a path which above is a bird coop.

We entered a room where big beautiful birds were there. But there was no one. Then we saw a man was working in another room. Apparently he took care of babies’ bird and sick birds. The babies are so tiny. He gave them food and drink one by one like a nurse to patients in a hospital. To our surprise, he said that we could take pictures with the big birds. Oh, now I know, here is the place. I saw pictures of children with birds and snakes but never knew where in this park.

We felt uncertain to take the bird and put in our arm or shoulder but the man helped us. Here are our pictures with those beautiful birds




Then we went to the fish park. There is a pond in the middle of the building where small sharks and turtles swim. You can try to touch them but be careful. Once a turtle has bitten a finger of a child. Just touch their back and not their head.

The most interesting fish for me there is Pirarucu. It is a very big fish from Amazona river. I think it’s more than 2,5 meters. The color is black and because of their heavy body, they swim slowly. But it makes them just more mysterious. As if they were thinking what they would do suddenly. There are 2 Pirarucu.

I remembered when we, my children and I, were there on the weekday. It was almost closing time but Anugerah was crazy about fish, so we must go inside Fish Park. Inside there were just three of us, no other visitors. Then we went to Pirarucu. Like usual they swam so slowly and calmly. Pelangi was already a bit afraid to see them but I liked watching them. She just stood behind me but still was looking at them. Suddenly one of them made a big move that the water splashed. We jumped up and Anugerah must laugh hard to see us, me too but Pelangi cried. After that she didn’t want to see Pirarucu anymore.

Not just Anugerah has laughed at us, Pelangi and I have laughed at him as well. At that time he stood in front of a big aquarium of another big fish but this fish didn’t look scary. We said something to him and because we stood behind him, Anugerah looked to us. When he looked back to the aquarium, the fish was swimming toward him. He scared and jumped up. Later he could laugh as well. Luckily there were other visitors with us the time we visited it with my sister and niece, so it was not scary.


After the long journey of the park we reached the water park. Pelangi, Anugerah and Kencana couldn’t wait to swim after lunch. They were already in the pool when we were ordering the food. That was our nice one-day going out to Jatim Park. A visit you should do with your family.