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Saturday, December 29, 2007

Bandung Tour

Bandung is a region surrounded by mountains. This green region is including protected forests, craters, plantations, waterfalls, hot springs and camp fields. Bandung serves scenic highlight, fresh air, and also amazing cool. Tourist can enjoy and using the facilities that provided in this scenic attractions.

Tangkuban Parahu
The beautiful is still virgin and natural which hasn’t been touched by structuring. So many visitors are interested for it’s charming. Location in Sindangbarang 125 km from Cianjur and 220 km from Jakarta.

Dago Waterfall
Curug Dago located at Nort of Bandung, the attraction of this location there are avaliable a waterfall with height 30 meter. Reach that waterfall do by walking or by motor cycle, altough not avaliable special line for vehicle. This waterfall is part of upper course of Cikapundung river which crossed Bandung city. Avaliable facilities as : place for shelter and seat also temporari café, which present at holiday.

Zoo
Bandung Zoo sheltering many kind of scarce animal. Zoo has facilities such as Zoology Museum, play park for kids, and art performance. Placed on Jalan Tamansari near ITB campus, Bandung Zoo sale ticket in that can be reach by all level society.

Pangalengan Tea Plantation
Another option is a tour of some two hours by car via Dayeuh Kolot to a small market town of Pangalengan, in southeast of Bandung. The town itself is of limited interest, but its surrounding area is quite delightful. Outing destinations from Pangalengan include two small lakes, a hot spring resort, the crater of Mt Wayang nearby, and a large tea plantations. The road network forms a loop from which further roads branch toward Santosa spotted with a tea processing factory, and Mt Papandayan, to Cisewu and on to the south coast. Another road connects to the Ciwidey Valley.

Santosa is lovely area, it offers an overnighting on the tea plantation a relaxing stay away from the rush of city life. A tea plantation managed by the plantation company PTP XIII just south of Pangalengan.

Juanda Forest
Going further from Dago Tea House following the Dago road, to the north is Juanda Forest Park, up hill of northern Bandung. It is a refreshing 50-ha reservation site that preserves over 2500 kind of trees from 40 families and 108 species. You can stroll around in the park, visit underground fortifications made by the Dutch and Japanese, or hike up into the hills above Dago as far as Maribaya. On Sundays and public holidays the park is rather crowded.

Directions By public transportation go up to the Dago bus terminal and transfer to a minibus going to Taman Juanda. By car, drive up Jl. Juanda to the Dago terminal (about 3 km from the Jl. Siliwangi intersection) and take the second street to the left past the terminal. Drive on until you reach the entry gate to Juanda park. A hefty Rp. 2,500 is charge for parking your car, but there is little other choice.

Cihideung Flower Garden
Bandung has obtained the tittle City of Flowers certainly for a reason. The Cihideung Village in the northern part of the city display the remains of what has made Bandung always associated with flowers. Along the roads of Cihideung village we can see the front yard of every houses full of flowers and colorful decorative plants, welcoming every steps of visitors.


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