Weekend trip experience to Bandung

This is really long weekend, four days off between 17-20 of May, almost all offices in Jakarta closed and all the employees coming from the surrounding area are going home or take a vacation, so a long traffic jam on the highway leading Jagorawi to Bandung highway or Cipularang to Bandung highway. But we ignore everything, straight away and go to Bandung for sightseeing holiday as well as visiting my friends there. Then we were stuck in the traffic between hundreds or even thousands of cars in Cipularang, God!!

Bandung is always alive, the city is cool and full of charm, the atmosphere of night adds the splendor of the city. Bandung is also a paradise for shopping lovers, fathers more, the girls of this city are pretty gorgeous, and its very popular among the citizen of Indonesia, a day trip is not enough to enjoy this city.

We arrived before sunset, and then pick a friend and stopped to pray in his house. After a while we went to Ciwalk (Ciamplelas Walk), a night on the center of the city, traveling, taking photos to preserve, Ciwalk is a place for young people in  Bandung to hang out, there are a lot of cafes that accentuate the artistic design to create a relaxed atmosphere in the cafe so the visitor feel comfortable. In addition to cafes and places to hang out, there are also many sellers of typical accessories of Bandung. In the daytime along Ciamplas Walk road there are many clothing seller, if you visit this place, my suggestion is firstly you need to make a shopping list, that will actually help you what to buy and which ones are not necessary.

After traveling we decided to stop by one of the cafes while also waiting for our friends get together, and we deliberately delaying dinner at the cafe. By evening, all of our friends had gathered, then we go up to the Punclut, a central area that serves food of Bandung  typical dish. There are many food stalls along the way of Punclut, the stall design concept mostly similar, are cross-legged. From here you can enjoy the views of Bandung from, from a distance it looks just the lights illuminate the streets of Bandung, perhaps because of this atmosphere, Punclut food stalls is always crowded at night, but unfortunately when we arrived in Bandung Punclut, suddenly the rain fall down.

To enjoy dinner at Punclut, you do not need to spend a lot of money, the average price of food here is affordable and even relatively cheap in Bandung. Food presentation are typical, it is very spicy! made me warm in the cold and rainy Bandung and make my stomach feel hot inside.

After a dinner we returned to Cimahi to one of our friend’s house to stay over  the night there.

In the next day we visit Riau Street, one of the shopping places in the city, to get to this place we have to pass under a overpass bridge, according to our friend this bridge built for the purposes of the Asian-African conference held in Bandung, and it is very long bridge. Riau street is not as busy as Ciamplas Walk street, but if you negligent, this place will make your wallet drained.

From Riau street we then headed to Pasar Baru, is also a shopping center in Bandung, the price of goods here is very cheap, you can find all kinds of convection here and the price are cheap, this place is paradise for shopping lover.

Bandung is a comfortable city, cool, full of charm, and friendly locals, there are many places that i have not yet visited here, my vacation today and previous visits is not yet enough to dive into this city as one of tourism destinations in Indonesia.