Throwback to 2018, when I had a chance to travel to India. The famous Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. It is located in Agra, Uttar Parradesh, India. It is around 12,4 KM from Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Airport to Taj Mahal. A must visit place in India. It is a free visa for Indonesian people to enter India and now days Garuda Indonesia flight to Bombai, India directly from Bali. There are other plane options can be choose to go there. I took Air Asia to go Delhi and bus to Agra. It takes almost four hours to Agra from Delhi. 

Anyway, from my last visit to Taj Mahal, I learned 4 things: 

The area itself around 17 hectares. We had to take a shuttle from the parking area to the ticket gate. As shown above, the main gate it self it is big. Don't forget the garden inside. From the gate to the Taj Mahal, there are 300 metre square garden lie down in between. In my suggestion, better to wear a comfortable shoes/sandals for walking. Sun screen is also important to use and don't forget to bring umbrella as well. 

• The Mosque is still active

There are two grand red sandstone buildings face the Taj Mahal. On the western side, there is the mosque that still being used for friday prayer as my guide said. In other words, don't come to Taj Mahal on Friday. 

• Buy the souvenir here or regret later. 

• People is everywhere

Earning your own money is always fun to do. It brings different kind of joy for me. Since I am busy with being full time stay at home mom, I always thinking how to make an extra money from home. It is not because I really need the extra money, it is just to keep me balance. Being busy at home as mom doen't mean I can't be human being who earns money. I want to have my own money to buy some good meals or to buy present for my husband/family. 

I searched and read about it a lot and finally, I brave enough to try. Here's what I do: 

Nowdays a lot of fintech available that can help us to do the investment. Either we buy some stock or mutual fund. Since my capital is not that much and I am still learning about this, I am more to buying government retail sukuk. It is more convenient I think for the beginner and it is easy to buy from fintech, such as modalku. Each month I get more than IDR100K from buying ST and SBR. It all depends on how much the capital. It feels good that my saving is not only stay idle on my account and I earn some bucks each month. Probably I will post about investing on government retail sukuk later with more explanation. 

• Doing small business 

My first impression: wow, it is smaller than I imagined. I thought it is going to big space with a lot of owl around. Turns out it is a small cafe, few chair inside, and the owl in the glass cage. Yet they have plenty chairs outside. When we arrived, there are only two customers inside. It was weekdays when we came. Even there was not so many people inside the mall itself. After checking the menu and ordered I wandered around. Oh, please take a note that they only have coffee, tea, some non-caffeine drink and dessert (cake and waffle). No big meal is available. 

The owl is being kept inside the cage made by glass. There are only around 4-5 owls available. There are several rules that has to be followed if we want to go inside, here is some: 

The owl is only available from 3 PM - 8 PM. They feed the owl twice, morning and night. They will feed them in the open field close to the cafe and let them rest in there. Not everyone can take care an owl. All of the staffs have been trained well in Barn Owl Cafe Tangerang. I believe the owl is in the good hands. 

However, the spacious space outside the cafe is a really good place to hang out, to have a good coffee and have some good quality time with a good friend. I personally recommend this cafe as a place to have good chat with your loved ones. It is kids friendly but nothing much for the kids to have fun. As my experienced, after touched the owl, my baby went outside and run freely from one table to another. Maybe if you are looking for a place to spend some time for me time, it is a good place. And don't forget, there is no big meal available in the cafe. 

What do you think when you heard about Ancol? Maybe it will reminded you to a beach. But nowdays it is more than a beach. There are the themepark, the eco park, and also a small zoo, faunaland! 

Me and my husband had been eager to bring our baby to a zoo. We wanted to show to her the real animal that she usually read on the book. Yet it is too far for us to go to Ragunan or Taman Safari. So we looked up something closer from our home and we found about Faunaland. We went there during Lebaran holiday last June. Oh yes, we're fasting when we went there. And because of that, we went there early in the morning. We were avoid the crowd and the sun. 

We arrived around 8-ish AM and Faunaland just opened. They operate from 8 AM on the weekend. The fee on weekend is IDR 100.000/person and it's including riding the boat. But if you don't want to ride the boat, the fee is IDR 75.000/person. However, during weekdays the price is IDR 90.000/person for including the boat and IDR 65.000/person for the other. 

• Enjoying a bird show. We can see different types of bird during the show. The professional trainer will introduce the type of bird and calling out their name. Each bird will fly around above us and the trainer will feed them once done. No need to worry, the bird will not being forced to do something hard, like jumping or picking up something. They will just fly around us and the bird show is only for couple minutes. The show itself is only three or four times in each day. Even when we were there, two birds didn't response to the trainer when they called their name. The trainer still feed them and said it's okay to the bird and let the bird go back. And please make sure that our kids sit properly while watching the show, so the bird is not getting distracted. 

• Feeding the fish. There is a river inside that full of fish and we can feed them easily from the dock. We can buy the fish-food inside for IDR 5.000/bag. Please be aware, some people are selling it outside as well, but we have to keep it inside our bag. Because the security will throw it away if they see it. 
• Getting so close with the animal. Since it is a small version of zoo, the animal is not that complete. There is no bear or elephant. Yet they have some unique animal, such as the white kangoroo, donkey, etc. The kids can ride a pony if they want, but we have to pay for it. 
• Riding a boat. Faunaland is like a zoo in an island that surrounded by a river. We will get a life jacket to wear on if we afraid something goes wrong. It is a small boat and can only fit around 8-10 people (including kids). Please take a note that the boat is not always available to ride on. There is a time table about it and there is only three boats available. Even when we were there, there was only boat operated and it took ages for us waiting to ride. 

Here some tips going to Faunaland: 

How about the food? The food is good with a reasonable price and of course they have kids menu. 

I think it is worth to have a visit there and your kids will definetly love to play around. My suggestion it is better to sit inside than outside, because outside is for smoking area.  

Hope you have a good experience while go there like I did. 

Last weekend we decided to visit Motomoto Museum in BSD (around 1 hour from Jakarta) after reading some reviews about it. We didn't expect that our baby will love it there. Yet turns out we had so much fun.

Motomoto Museum is located in QBig, BSD. It takes around one hour drive from Jakarta without traffic.

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