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From Art to a Hedgehog

3/4/2020

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Now that we have experience with the taxi’s we feel confident and take off for the National Gallery of Indonesia to see their artworks. The museum is in the same general direction as the Museum Nasional, but on the other side of Monas, the National Monument.

Today the taxi driver takes a very creative approach to the left turn that Google maps showed yesterday (and also today). He drives through the mall pickup area, turns around and returns through the adjacent pickup/drop off lane then makes a turn at the end of the mall. Oh! Apparently Google thinks a turn is allowed when it isn’t. We also see the driver having to take U-turns and odd routes. We are possibly starting to see why Jakarta traffic is so notoriously bad - the road rules inhibit direct routes.
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​After the driver drops us at the gallery we walk past the manned guard house and down the interior road toward the cluster of buildings. Unfortunately all the doors are either locked of have a closed sign on them. There are men working on repairs to the buildings - oh no, they might be closed for renovations! There was no mention of this on their website when I checked it last night. Darn! We use the opportunity to walk to the gate of Monas and take a photo. It is also possible to go up into the 132 meter (433 foot) tower, much like the Washington Memorial, but we haven’t purchased tickets in advance, it’s lightly drizzling, and as William’s mother would say “we don’t feel to” (I.e. we don’t feel like doing it).
 
Time for Plan B. We flag a taxi and have the driver take us to the mall. We buy two tickets for Sonic the Hedgehog, the only movie in English that is starting within the next two hours. The total price is ~ $7 USD. We’ve slipped quite a bit from fine art to Jim Carey, but it’s okay for a rainy day.
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