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A week stay in Jakarta

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This was my first official trip when I was working with Oracle. I had to deliver Solaris 11 Boot Camp training at Jakarta, Indonesia. I stayed there for a week during Christmas time at Shangri-La  hotel. I flew in Singapore airlines and reached Jakarta in the morning. The city is infamous for traffic and it took 3+ hours to reach our hotel. I had lunch and slept for a while. Evening I went to the nearby local market and searched for some local cuisine, but there was nothing for Vegetarian. I settled with Starbucks coffee and Dunkin donut. I went to different activities room in the hotel and finally went to Sauna. Had a hearty dinner at one of their signature restaurants and called it a day. The Mercedes  Benz taxi service is quite popular there and so took Benz taxi to office which is located at Sentral Senyan 1 building. The Boot camp was a day long event and it was for four days. In the evening, I used to walk to the Senyan City mall and being Christmas time, the mall was dec