10 Allures of Depok City

       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

Depok has a popular mosque. It is the Golden Dome Mosque or Dian Al-Mahri Mosque. The unique characteristic of the mosque is obviously the dome. The dome of this mosque is made from 24 carats gold. The mosque building area is about 8 hectares and located on 60 hectares land area. Because of its luxurious this mosque is also called the Greatest Mosque in South-east Asia. Greater than Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta.

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.

4.       Water Park Recreation

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.

5.       Park

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.

6.       City Forest

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.

7.       Education Tourism

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.

8.       Cyber City

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.

9.       College

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.

10.   Starfruit

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.