Bandung, Indonesia Travel Blogs

Bandung & Tangkuban Parahu Volcano - Day 185-186
Aug 25, 2008 (30 photos)

... day in the life of the "Mountain Nomad"! The early morning was uneventful, bought a train ticket to Jakarta for tomorrow. Walked around downtown Bandung for an hour or so. Not a lot to see in this dirty and heavily polluted city but I didn't come to see ...

Overland to Bandung!!
Apr 19, 2005 (2 photos)

... way the bus drivers (especially the green bus!!) in Java tend to drive all with one windscreen wiper! Excellent! We arrived in Bandung early evening and had a nightmare trying to get transport into the city centre - in Java all the bus stations are miles ...

Cianjur/Bandung Day 117 (14th Sept)
Sep 14, 2009

Today I was a bit bored and waiting for Yudi to get back to give me a lift to the bus stop to get to Bandung. When Yudi arrived I did go to Bandung, which took a couple of hours. From here I had to wait to get the night train to Yogyakarta. The overnight ...

Cianjur
Jul 23, 2008

I went to a homestay in Cianjur. It was very highly recommended on thorntree. I took an overnight train to Bandung, and then from there a bus to Cianjur.  It is a small town, where there aren't any foreigners at all, just regular people doing regular ...

Introspection on Copping an Attitude
Mar 19, 2009 (9 photos)

... plenty of time to read up on this town on the train, so I thought I'd stay here a few days. When I first got to Bandung, everything went wrong.  Taxi got "lost" and drove all over town to run up the meter.  Restaurant tried to overcharge me.& ...

Leaving bandung, headed north, two unpleasantries
Mar 21, 2009 (7 photos)

... , and left. He was no longer laughing. Later that day day I took a bemo to Lambang (16 kilos north of Bandung), intending to stay there. Lonely Planet describes it as a quiet hill town, and only lists one hotel.  For the whole 16 kilo ...

Bandung
Nov 13, 2007 (16 photos)

... world charm that is able to put all your troubles on hold. I think this is why the locals have dubbed it the Paris of Indonesia.   Our tour guide for the weekend was a work friend of mine who grew up here, and still manages to get back most weekends ...

Not Bored at all in Bandung!
May 16, 2009 (32 photos)

... "Paris of Java", although I wouldn't go that far). It's nothing absolutely spectacular or anything, but I think I just like Indonesia so much that I am never bored and always find it interesting. Just wandering around warungs and trying to figure out what ...

West Java
Sep 27, 2008

... 40114 Phone. (022) 7271385, 7273209 Fax. (022) 7271385 Website: http://www.westjava-indonesia.com Domestic airlines serve to Bandung everyday. Buses from Central Java and Jakarta arrived in Leuwi Panjang. Several trains operate from Jakarta ...

Sunset
Jul 24, 2008

Terkadang senja diibaratkan dengan akhir usia, akhir suatu hari. Tapi bagiku...senja adalah sebuah awal dari pencapaian yang tak berujung. Senja akan selalu indah untuk dilihat, dipandang, dan diresapi dalam jiwa. Mentari yang menguning, awan yang ...

Train to Bandung
Jul 22, 2004

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Bandung
Dec 17, 2007

... as well Tweeks was playing it cool and we negotiated the streets without committing any gun crime. Good job too really.   Bandung has the reputation as a cool clothes design and media centre of Java. We didn't stumble across this, but did find a ...

Mr Simon
Jul 22, 2004 (1 photos)

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bandung
Aug 1, 2006

shelomita was not at home but i really wanted to meet her, so here we are...in this massive stundet town... we didn't menage to do much over a nice chat and small tour around town looking for a restaurant first and then a pub for a drink, and we ended up ...

Do NOT Show this Entry to my Mother
Mar 22, 2009 (15 photos)

... . I notice the shops are all changing their music to play the same thing.  It is a very popular song/music video in Indonesia--in English, unlike the shop music they normally play- titled "We Will  Not Go Down" about Gaza.  The ...

Ciater Hot Springs + quadraplegic
Mar 21, 2009 (4 photos)

Ciater Hot Springs are nice.  They are hot--about 108 F, not at all sulfur smelling.  They are in, as Uncle Jed would observe, a cement pond.  There is a cold shower to jump start your heart--this is in the mountains and the mountain water ...

Bandung
Jan 10, 2007

Jeans street, geological museum and a lot of Indonesian stuff, not very special

Safe in Bandung
Jan 14, 2006

... last night (about 4 hours outside of Jakarta) in a blur of excitment, anxiety and sweat! The man who drove me from Jakarta to Bandung spoke no English, but was very kind. After running out of hand gestures, he looked at me and then put in a CD. Low and ...

Everchanging Faces of the Mountain-Sea
Mar 26, 2006 (12 photos)

... , very ersatz in appearance, next to a Sundanese restaurant where we buy lunch. It’s harvesting time here in Ciwidey, south of Bandung. Or is it so, just to entertain the guests? Maybe. For all we know, there are lots of government officials and ...

Volcanic Java
Dec 7, 2008 (6 photos)

Day tripped it to the Tangkuban Perahu Area a large national park,  Here there is a volcano with 6 creators, only 2 you can visit because the others are giving out harmful amounts of gas.  I firstly went to the kawah Ratu which ...

Wild abandon in Bandung
May 16, 2007 (2 photos)

... the end we still got conned - but at least it was just a good old fashioned case of simple overcharging.  So that's alright. Bandung is a city of about 2 million and it seems there is only one place to be seen - Jl. Braga.  Braga Street  ...

Happy winter solstice!
Jun 20, 2007

I only had a week in sumatra, since my flight out of bali is scheduled for july 10, and indonesia is a rather large country to cover in a small amount of time.  In the interests of avoiding thirty hour bus rides I flew from medan to jakarta, crossing ...

The elusive elixir!
Mar 8, 2007

... and Bandrek is spicy ginger tea with coconut. Since we'd read about these drinks months ago we were determined to track them down and Bandung was meant to be the place to try them. We found a room that was a bit more cheerful than the one in Jakarta and ...

Festival Warna-warni di Tengah Sejuknya Pegunungan
Nov 14, 2004 (15 photos)

... sudah sampai di Desa Pasirjambu, sama sekali terbebas dari kemacetan yang identik dengan Lebaran. Jalan menuju daerah selatan Bandung cukup dipelihara oleh pemerintah setempat. Jarang kami temukan bagian jalan yang rusak parah. Di sepanjang jalan itu, ...

Bandung Java, Indonesia
Oct 11, 2009

Today, I go to the reception to extend my stay for another night and am told that the hotel is fully booked for tonight!!!!  I really don't want to change hotels as that will take too much time so I decide that I will leave today for Bogor.  I ...

Bandung, Java, Indonesia
Oct 10, 2009 (14 photos)

... they manufacture the puppets.  All puppets here are handmade and handpainted. Quite interesting to observe the work in progress. Bandung is also known for its cultural performances and there was one at 3:30 today at Saung Angklung about 8 km from the ...

Bandung, Java, Indonesia
Oct 9, 2009 (3 photos)

... closer to 9:30 and then had to pick up others so by the time we left it must have been around 10 am and arrived in Bandung around 2.  I had asked to be dropped off at the Hotel Kedaton but I felt that 455,000 was a bit steep for the room they showed ...

Week 22 - 25 blog entry, sight-seeing, 3 nights
Mar 20, 2008 (10 photos)

... our homestay (a beautiful and quiet villa with huge rooms) took us to the National Park. On Sunday the park was full of indonesia tourists, and monkeys. We quickly found out, yet again, that the monkeys are keen on finding any food you might carry. The ...

Kamojang crater, Volcanes de Indonesia
Oct 5, 2008 (21 photos)

Kamojan crater, Indonesian volcanoes

Bromo, volcan, Indonesia
Oct 5, 2008 (36 photos)

Bromo, volcano, Indonesia