Bandung Off The Beaten Path

Visit Ciwidey about 2 1/2 hour drive south of Bandung. The winding road takes you through small villages, padi fields and as you approach the final destination are small plots of strawberry farms. The park will charge a nominal entrance fee and you need to drive up for another 5 - 10 minutes to reach the rim of the sulphurous crater. Forget the egg boiling ritual you probably did in Tangkuban Perahu. Over here you just sit back and enjoy the cool view of the landscape, or maybe savour the surprisingly sweet locally grown strawberries you bought along the way or at the huts in the vicinity of the parking lot.

compare in other city in indonesia, you can find people selling roses in bandung almost everywhere especially on saturday night.
bandung is a city full of student, you can find people fall in love almost in every corner of the city.
so, just buy rose for your love one :)

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if you want to go to lembang, you can try this alternative road.
the area called cihideung, where there are lot of famous restaurant such as kampung daun and the peak located. along the road, you can find people selling flowers for garden.
they're cheaper, beautiful and you can take them inside your car to travel back home.

the new gas station is really attract your attention. it's located on your way to bandung from jakarta through cipularang highway.
it's big, it's red and has big parking lot with mini market and foor court.
there's also starbuck there!

if you go to bandung from jakarta through cipularang highway, you'll see the old railway.
it's built by the dutch during the colonial time, probably at the end of 19th century or at the beginning of 20th century.
it's still ised until now and if you go to bandung from jakarta, you'll pass it.

Up from Bandung there is a nature reserve called Hutan Juanda (Juanda Nature Reserve). It is located up from Dago.

Walk and breathe the clean air in the reserve. There are also a couple of man-made caves under the cliff rock. They used to be a hideaway of the Japanese and the Dutch soldiers during their occupation in Indonesia a long time ago.

Bandung is also home to Indonesia’s renowned center of Sundanese music and dance, Saung Angklung Pak Udjo, or commonly known as the Bandung Angklung School. Angklung is Sundanse musical instrument made from bamboo pipes, differing in length and pitch, fixed loosely to a small wooden frame and shaken to produce sound. A full Angklung orchestra is sometimes made up of more than 20 musicians playing traditional – as well as internationally known tunes. Try to visit this Angklung School and walk away with a unique musical experience.

Mount Tangkuban Perahu is a smoldering 2000-meters wide, surrealistic volcano 1800-meters above sea level. Standing on an active Crater near the boiling water jetted out of ground is probably something unusual.
It is located about twenty-nine kilometers from Bandung