1. Culinary on Margonda Road
Depok has the paradise of culinary. We can find it along the Margonda road.
We can find hundreds culinary tourism destination there. All kind of local
cuisines and international cuisines are served. Any kind of local cuisines or
international cuisines there are so appetizing for everyone who passes the
road. It’s not a surprise the road always so crowded on the weekend. Some top
recommended culinary destination there are: Warung Spesial Sambal, Mang
Engking, Pondok Laras, Takarajima and Sop Durian Margoda.
2. Golden Dome Mosque (Dian Al-Mahri)
Me in 2012 |
3. Shopping Centers
Depok has a lot of shopping centers which can make you confused to choose
where to shop. List of the shopping centers are: Plaza Depok, D’Mall, Depok
Town Square, MargoCity, Gramedia Depok, ITC Depok, Depok Town Square
(Sawangan), TIP TOP, Carrefour Dewi Sartika, Giant Cimanggis and many more.
You can refresh yourself in Depok City, because it also has some Water Park
Recreation which able to attract a lot of tourism visitors. The places are:
Depok Fantasy Water Park, Taman Wisata Pasir Putih and Ceria Kolam.
Besides in Bandung, Depok also has beautiful park called Taman Bunga
Wiladatika or Wiladatika Park. This park is very suitable to have picnic with
families, because the arena is so interesting and will make children endure in
a long time. Various facilites are provided like water fountain, flower park,
children playground, artificial waterfall and mini cave is also provided. This
place is located not far away from Cibubur Campsite.
Depok City Forest also can be an alternative destination with families. It
has a lake which is so interesting to fish. It also provide ways for
pedestarians and also benches to relax and enjoy the fresh air and the fresh
view. This place will refresh you after a week full of activity.
Depok City is perfect because it has education tourism destination. Located
in Sawangan, D’Kandang Amazing Farm is one of education tourism destinations in
Depok. In the beginning this place is a livestock but it is developed and
become education tourism destination and playground. This ecotourism place not
only giving comfortable atmosphere but also giving games and education. With 8
hectares area children will be invited to interact directly with the cattles
like cow, goat, horse and sheep. There are also lot of positive activities which
children can do like feeding the cattles, squeezing cows milk, learning the
process of making fertilizer, outbond low impact and high impact, fishing,
riding horse, harvesting crops and enjoy consuming the crops.
Depok government has Cyber City Program which means all people here are “Internet
Minded” or connected to internet. So it means all Depok people are used to
accesing internet to fulfill information needs which are needed for daily
activities.
Depok also can be called as Education City because it has a lot of
colleges. There are: Gunadarma University (World Class University), University
of Indonesia, Mercu Buana University, Pancasila University, Jakarta State Polytechnic
and many more.
Depok is the largest starfruit supplier in Indonesia, you can find starfruit
agro-tourism here called Agrowisata Belimbing Dewa or God Starfruit
Agro-tourism. You can travel in this place which has more than 500 farmers. This
place is located in Pasir Putih, Sawangan. You can enjoy the starfruit there by
harvesting it directly and of course you will get unique information about the
starfruit.