Pohon Inn Hotel, Batu, Indonesia: Green Stay Revealed

If you and your family happen to be sleeping inside a tree house, then you can imagine how big the tree is. Tree houses do exist and it can actually be found in some places on earth. However, there is a different kind of tree house in Java’s mountainous cool city of Batu, Indonesia, named Pohon Inn. Unlike other tree houses, this one looks really old. In contrast with its appearance,in here right after you step your foot into its lobby, you will be greeted by some front desk officers, to secure your convenience in your tree stay.

Pohon Inn from a distance

Wait, we just talked about a tree house, right? Not exactly, PohonInn is a tree-like hotel and the word pohon, whichis“tree” in English,means this hotel tries to make your stay as green as possible. This is what make this hotel sospecial aseverything in this hotel was made as natural as possible.

When you see the hotel from far distance, it looks like a giant topless tree trunk and this part of the tree seems to be a few hundred years old as it has holes that can confirm its age.  Nevertheless as you get closer, this tree trunk is actually a three-star hotel with many windows to let the cool and natural mountain wind breezecirculate inside the hotel!

Pohon Inn is located right between two of Batu’smajor attractions,Batu Secret Zoo and MuseumSatwa (Fauna Museum), which are parts of JatimPark 2 (East Java Park 2). Its location makes it the best choice of hotel when visitingJatim Park 2. Go carless! Leave your car in the hotel and walk. It is a good way to go green and stay healthy, isn’t it?

Green interior

In order to make you close to nature as possible, besides its natural exterior, the hotel’s interior was brilliantly designed in such a way that wherever you are in most parts of the hotel, you can always see nature. Even in the hotel’s bedrooms, the bed sheets are curtains are green, which resemble tree leaves. 

Get up and go to the balcony

 

There is nothing better to do in the morning than going to your room’s balcony to view the city. Start your day with green inspiration from the very best of Batu's nature!  

Jungle-Themed Restaurant 

Have your meal at the hotel’s restaurant of Jungle Fast Food while being watched by tigers! Like its name, everything inside is full of real vegetation (not the fake one), and you know what? They have something hidden in their mind. These tigers do not target you as their meal, but your meal is their actual target!

Green sleep 

Weekday rates                                        Superior   : IDR 485,000 (around USD 37) Deluxe      : IDR 635,000 (around USD 48) Executive : IDR 1,100,000 (around USD 83)

Weekend and high season rates Superior     : IDR 990,000 (around USD 75) Deluxe        : IDR 1,210,000 (around USD 91) Executive   : IDR 1,595,000 (around USD 120)

As written above, there are three types of rooms there: superior, deluxe and executive. Rates for weekends and high seasons are higher from weekday rates.Besides due to the high number of visitors,it is also because on those days paying for the hotel room, which normally only includes breakfast vouchers for two like on weekdays, also includes a couple of tickets to Jatim Park 2 and dinner vouchers.So when you plan to stay in Pohon Inn on weekends and during high seasons like Christmas and especially the Islamic holiday of Eid Al-Fitr that is closing in, make sure you don’t buy Jatim Park 2 ticket from the park’s ticket counter.

Pohon Inn’s deluxe rooms offer something cool. Imagine sleeping at night with tigers, lions, deer and other wild animals around. When you stay in a deluxe room, you will get that kind of sensation as the room is facing Batu Secret Zoo and as a result you can see some animals in the zoo and especially in the night you can hear their sound too. What a green sleep!

Experience The Wonders Of Modern Zoo In Batu, Indonesia

It was more than 4,000 years ago when Noah built an arc to escape from the Great Flood. He collected all types of fish, birds and land animals he could find and placed them inside the arc. The flood indeed happened and covered all lands and mountains on earth. When the flood subsided, the arc eventually landed in a zoo located in 'Batu', a small town in the  high plateau of Mount Panderman in the eastern part of Java island in Indonesia, that lies around 1,000 meters above sea level!

Batu Secret Zoo

Welcome to Batu Secret Zoo and be the witness of Noah’s collection of animals. Experience living in the Noah’s era where all kinds of animals have just been released from the arc! Haha..! It may sound exaggerated, but that’s the theme of the zoo as you will find the Noah’s arc in the location. 

These exotic animals must come from far-away lands to this gorgeous site for one main reason: to let us witness world’s animal variant and make us realize how important it is to protect them, just like what Noah did thousands of years ago.     

Noah’s arc

Together with museum satwa (fauna museum), Batu Secret Zoo is a part of Jatim Park 2. In here you may see various animals from all the five continents of the earth living in the man-made environment that was made to be similar to their natural habitat.Batu’s cool tropical climate, and year-round sunshine have made the zoo ideal homes for the animals.It has become one of the most livable man-made animal sanctuaries on the planet.

The animals are classified into several different categories where each category takes place in separate places along the exploration route. The zoo provides separate habitats for reptiles, bats and fish in aquariums (Batu Secret Zoo A area), the ungulates such as wildebeests and zebras (savannah area),small animals like rabbits (KampungAfrika or African village area), baby elephants (elephant village area), tiger (Tiger Land area) and also aseperate area forpoultries, turtles and tortoises, primates as well as hippopotamuses and crocodiles.

Interacting with a tiger

Do something unforgettable and interact with some tigers and snakes. If you have the nerve, you may want to try to love wild animals by touching a tiger or a snake! Wait.., there is no reason for panicking as so far not a single straight-walking primates has been hurt or eaten by them! They are tame and have been domesticated, although you need to interact with extra caution as no matter what, they still have the instinct to make you their prey!

Snake interaction

Why is it called a secret zoo? The reason is when exploring the14-hectare land area of Batu secret zoo there are always mysterious funs and surprises ahead that are waiting to be revealed and that visitors just can not stop wondering what lie ahead. It can take roughly three hours to explore the whole area by foot or perhaps shorter than that if you rent an electric bike for IDR 105,000 (USD 8)

Inside Batu Secret Zoo there is Fantasy Land that mainly provides swimming pool and water games. Also there is also an activity so-called river adventure where youcan see some orangutans living in their habitat.

After touring the zoo, continue your exotic journey to the “fauna museum”. In here you will admire itsbeautiful replica collections of some animal skeletons including those of the butterflies and dinosaurs.

Only in Batu

Its entrance ticket is IDR 75000 (around USD 5.65) from Monday to Thursday and IDR 105,000 (around USD 8) from Friday to Sunday. Please be noted that during peak seasons like public and school holidays weekend rates apply.

This model of zoo is called modern zoo, which is the only one in Indonesia and that makes Batu Secret Zoo truly worth visiting. Especially if you visit East Java, this is a must visit spot for you and your family as it is just 2 to 3-hour drive from the province’s capital city of Surabaya and about the same hours from the famous Mount Bromo. It is only about 30-minute drive from Malang city, the second largest city in East Java. Make sure your East Java visit a memorable experience.