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Sights in the city of Bandung

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Bandung City

Bandung (pronounced bandung) (Indonesian: Kota Bandung) is the capital of West Java province in Indonesia, and the country's third largest city, and second largest metropolitan area in Indonesia with a population of 7.4 million in 2007. Located 768 meters (2,520 ft) above sea level, approximately 140 km south eastern of Jakarta, Bandung has cooler temperatures all year-round than most other Indonesian cities. The city lies on a river basin surrounded by volcanic mountains. This topography provides a good natural defense system, which was the primary reason for the Dutch East Indies government's plan to move the colony capital from Batavia to Bandung.

The Dutch colonials first opened tea plantations around the mountains in the eighteenth century, followed by a road construction connecting the plantation area to the capital (180 km or 112 miles to the northwest). The Dutch inhabitants of the city demanded for the establishment of a municipality (gemeente), which was granted in 1906, and Bandung gradually developed itself into a resort city for the plantation owners. Luxurious hotels, restaurants, cafes and European boutiques were opened of which the city was dubbed as Paris van Java (Dutch: "The Paris of Java").

After Indonesian independence in 1945, the city experienced rapid development and urbanization, transforming Bandung from idyllic town into a dense 16,500 people/km² metropolitan area, a living space for over 2 million people. Natural resources have been exploited excessively, particularly in the conversions of protected upland area into highland villa and real estates. Although the city has encountered many problems (ranging from waste disposal, floods to chaotic traffic system, etc.), Bandung still attracts immigrants and weekend travelers.

- Culinary -

Surabi Cute (Surabi Imut)

About Surabi Cute Bandung
Bandung, West Java, Indonesia Cute Surabi Initially started as a global monetary crisis, especially the monetary crisis in Indonesia. Cute Surabi originally established in July 1998, the establishment of Cute Surabi was initiated by Mr. ating Supardi and his daughter Riana Rismawati. Month of July 2001, Surabi Cute relocate to Jl. Dr. Setiabudi 175 Bandung. In this place Surabi Imut growing and even its existence is recognized by many as an example. As a manifestation of the success of Surabi Cute, Riana Rismawati as the manager succeeded in making Surabi Cute as icons Bandung traditional foods.

Surabi cute is the precursor for the manufacture of various flavors. If earlier, people familiar with Java Surabi is typical western diet that tastes just two flavors (sweet and Surabi Surabi Oncom), but now had Cute Surabi modify Surabi to 27 different flavors. Just look at ......, there is a sense of strawberries, chicken flavor, egg flavor, chocolate, etc.. All of which can be enjoyed by all walks of life. In fact, believe it or not, there are people who are willing to drive their own vehicles from Jakarta to Bandung, just to enjoy this delicious super-Surabi.

Sausage House Bandung (Rumah Sosis Bandung)

Still included in the series of family attractions in Bandung, this timesaving Snack Street (Jalan Jajan Hemat) will review about SausageHouse in Bandung. This place is located at Jl Setiabudi 295, so fromthe city of Bandung, the studies are in the direction of Lembang, easy to find because it is located on the edge koq highway. The theme is taken Eat, Swim and Play to confirm that this is not just sellingsausages, but also as a complete family holiday.

When viewed from the outside, it looks like this place is not great, but once entered into it, new areas have seen a wide and diverse games available there. To enter cost Rp 2,000 / person. Well this is kinda weird, koq cover charge, yes, it should be free, because for every game will be charged again. Inside the restaurant you can order a variety of sausages, either chicken or beef in a variety of types and sizes, such as Beef Garlic, Black Pepper, Chicken Chipolata, Bockwurst Beef, Mini Bockwurst, Super Cheesy, Cheesy Mini or Big Bockwurst, cost about USD 8000-9000 / pieces of sausage, a bit cheaper than at De 'Ranch. It was pretty okay and sausages here do not use preservatives or dyes. In addition there are also sausages makanan2 koq other, the price range of around Rp 20,000 - Rp 70,000. On the wall resto seen photographs of some of the artists who've been to this house sausage.

While the parents to fill the stomach, anak2 can also happily playhere. Because the game is said to be quite complete. Ranging fromswimming pools, ATV, mini motor cross, , bicycles, otoped, flying fox, trampoline, toy cars, fishing pond, a tree house, funclimbing, horse riding, maze, sausage boats, playland, a place to swim, variousgames Bazzar.

Natural Attractions

Mountain Tangkuban Boat (Tangkuban Perahu)

Mount Tangkuban Boat is located about 30 km north of the city of Bandung. This wonderful place is located in Lembang, approximately 30 minutes from London using the vehicle bermotor.Gunung Tangkuban Perahu have as high an altitude 2084 meters. The mountain is one of the attractive tourist destination in West Java. Its natural environment is cool, and hot springs in the legs of the mountain. A row of elongated crater, the main attraction is actually a boat tersendiri.Tangkuban volcano. Tangkuban boat named because its shape resembles an inverted ship.The boat itself Tangkuban name is attached to a legendary land of Sunda are well known, namely Sangkuriang. Mount Tangkuban boat from a distance looks like an upturned boat, supposedly caused by supernatural powers Sangkuriang failed to finish the job in the overnight boat to marry Dayang Sumbi is none other than his own mother. Because so upset not to complete construction of the boat, finally Sangkuriang kicked the unfinished boat. Diataslah legend who became closely linked in the naming of the mountain Tangkuban boat.Tangkuban mountain charm of this boat is so awesome, even when the weather is sunny, the curve of the soil on the crater walls can be seen clearly, in contrast with the green trees around the volcano. Not only that, the bottom of the crater we were able to enjoy the beauty that was amazing. The natural beauty is what makes the boat Tangkuban become one of the flagship nature of West Java Province, Bandung in particular.Tangkuban road to the boat, the right frame on the road you will see the green carpet of tea gardens and rows of pine trees. His name is also a mountain, it is definitely very cool air at all times. Because the boat is Tangkuban Mount Merapi is still active today, it has always been a lot of crater eruption that left the rest of the eruption. The crater-crater current is already used as a wisata.Kawah-crater Ratu Crater include, Upas, Domas, New, Jurig, Rhino, Jurian, Demon and Pangguyungan Rhino. Among these craters, the crater of the Queen is the largest crater, followed by Upas crater crater that is located adjacent to the Queen. Some of the crater sulfur smell smoke, there is even forbidden to descend the crater, because the smell of toxic smoke.If you visit London, take the time you visited Tangkuban boat. The cool air, beautiful scenery, it will make you satisfied. Tangkuban visiting boats mean you have to enjoy the natural attractions, Lagenda, as well as shopping. Because of this mountain region we find many merchants that sell a variety of sauvenir, food, etc.. On the crater rim of this mountain you can also walk around with a rented horse, all of which will add to your satisfaction the tour. Come and Enjoy ..!

Kawah Putih dan Situ Patenggang

In South Bandung, there are some pretty interesting tourism objects to visit. Among them are White and Situ patengan Crater (people often refer Situ). Due to the considerable distance away from the city of Bandung, about 2.5 hours, is recommended if you want to visit the place in South London, it is better to multiple places at once, so that your trip more efficient.

Kawah Putih

This place is located in the Ciwidey. The scenery is quite beautiful, it's cold. On the mountain, there is a stretch of white sand, and there is a green lake in the middle, a scene which is quite a contrast. Evenwhen I get there, there is a bride and groom who were taking for pre-wedding photos.

Beautiful place was reportedly discovered by a Dutchman named Dr.Franz Wilhelm Junghuh. He does not believe the stories aboutpeople who say the area is haunted Patuha. So there is no animal that passes even birds flying across it could die. It found the lake, in which there are bursts ofsulfur, so the animals do not like the smell.

Near the entrance there are some saung, so we can rest in a relaxedatmosphere that we never get in the big cities. Admission price is quite cheap, Rp. 3,500 / person, plus Rp 3,000 for the car. Indeed,in this place there are no facilities, not just selling the existing landscape. Unfortunately, this ought to be a very attractive tourist place if it is managed by the local government seriously.

Situ Patengan

From the White crater, we could continue our journey towards Situ patengan. This park is more crowded than the White crater, probably due to the existing facilities more. This vast 17 hectare park, while the lake area 48 ha. In the middle of the lake there is a small islandcalled the island of Asmara, due to a heart-shaped.

There patengan, derived from the Sundanese, "Pateangan-teangan" which means looking for each other. It is said that there used to be a pair of lovebirds and goddess Ki Santang Rengganis who love each other. They split up so long, and each search. Finally they met at a place called Stone Love. Goddess Rengganis also asked for a lakeand a boat to sail together. This boat which until then had been aheart-shaped island (island Asmara / island Sasaka).

typical Sundanese musical instruments

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Angklung

The Angklung is a musical instrument made of two bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved to have a resonant pitch when struck and are tuned to octaves. The base of the frame is held in one hand, whilst the other hand strucks the instrument. This causes a repeating note to sound. Each of three or more performers in an angkalung ensemble play just one note or more, but altogether complete melodies are produced. The Angklung is popular throughout Southeast Asia, but it originated in today's Indonesia and has been played by the Sundanese for many centuries.

The word "angklung" was originated from Sundanese "angkleung-angkleungan", that means the movement of angklung player and the sound "klung" that comes from the instrument.

Another theory suggested that the word "angklung" was formed from two Balinese words - angka and lung. Angka means "tone", and lung means "broken" or "lost". Angklung thus means an "incomplete tone".

Outside Indonesia

The angklung was first invented in West Java, Indonesia; with a possibility of cultural transmittance to various other places such as Malaysia & the Philippines over the course of several centuries. In the early 20th century during the time of Dutch East Indies, the angklung was adopted in Thailand, where it is called angkalung (อังกะลุง). It was recorded that angklung was brought to Siam in 1908 by Luang Pradit Pairoh, royal musician in the entourage of HRH Field Marshal Prince Bhanurangsi Savangwongse of Siam, who paid a royal visit to Java that year (27 years after the first state visit of his elder brother, King Chulalongkorn to Java in 1871.) The Thai angklung are typically tuned in the Thai tuning system of seven equidistant steps per octave, and each angklung has three bamboo tubes tuned in three separate octaves rather than two, as is typical in Indonesia.

In 2008, there was a grand celebration in the Thai traditional music circle, to mark the 100th anniversary of the introduction of angklung to Thailand. Both the Thai and Indonesian governments supported to celebration.

Angklung has also been adopted by its Austronesian-speaking neighbors, in particular by Malaysia and the Philippines, where they are played as part of bamboo xylophone orchestras. Formally introduced into Malaysia sometime after the end of the Confrontation, angklung found immediate popularity. They are generally played using a pentatonic scale similar to the Indonesian slendro, although in the Philippines, sets also come in the diatonic and minor scales used to perform various Spanish-influenced folk music in addition to native songs in pentatonic.

At least one Sundanese angklung buncis ensemble exists in the United States. Angklung Buncis Sukahejo is an ensemble at The Evergreen State College, and includes eighteen double rattles (nine tuned pairs) and four dog-dog drums.

Many angklung videos are available on youtube. People have even started to play pop songs on them, which just goes to show how quickly this generation is going by.

World record

On July 9, 2011 5,182 people from many nations played angklung together in Washington DC and are listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest angklung ensemble.

Calung

Calung is a traditional music instrument from Java precisely from Central Java and West Java. Similar to Angklung, Calung is made from bamboo but they have different form. Calung is a little bit like xylophone. To sound it, simply hit the lath using its stick. Calung is usually played on special occasion like at the wedding anniversary, a boy’s circumcision celebration, and other anniversary. Dancers called Lengger (girl dancers) dancing along with the music of calung.

Calung is a Sundanese musical instrument which is a prototype (prototype) of the angklung. Unlike the angklung is played by shaken, beating calung way is to hit the rod (wilahan, blades) of the joints (bamboo tubes) are arranged according to the barrel titi (scales) pentatonic (da-mi-na-ti-la) . Species of bamboo to manufacture most of awi wulung calung (black bamboo), but some are made from awi friend (white bamboo).

Calung sense than as a musical instrument is also attached as the performing arts. There are two forms of Sunda calung known, namely calung calung rantay and portable.

Sundanese dance

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Like Javanese dancing, Sundanese dancing has also passed through tile following periods of development explained in previous chapters, viz.: the Period of Primitive Society, Feudal Society, and Modern Society.

Jaipongan dance

Jaipongan, also known as Jaipong, is a popular traditional dance of Sundanese people, West Java, Indonesia. The dance was created by Gugum Gumbira, based on traditional Sundanese Ketuk Tilu music and Pencak Silat movements.

Jaipong today

In 2011, the international popularity of jaipongan has decreased, but in Asia, it’s still extremely popular. It’s most popular in the areas of Sunda, where it was created, as well as the surrounding villages and cities.

Although it’s most popular in Asia, there are jaipongan dance troupes and musical ensembles in Europe in addition to the United States (like Harsanari of San-Francisco) and throughout other parts of the world.

In 2011, jaipongan is noted as a modern classical concert genre of music, which is often sampled in other Asian music, and has multiple subgenres. There is still is a large market for jaipongan CDs and mp3s.

Peacock dance

Peacock peacock dance is a dance popular in the land of Java, different versions can be found also in West Java and East Java.

Peacock Dance is a dance of creation of new land created by Raden Pasundan Tjetjep Somantri in the 1950s and remade by dra. Irawati Durban in 1965.

Many people mistakenly think that if this dance tells about the life and joy peahen, but this dance tells the story of the charm of the famous transvestite male peacock to impress the females. The male will display the beauty of the long tail feathers and colorful to attract the female. Gestures of the male who looks like a graceful dance to showcase the charm of her best so that the female fascination and continue their marriage rituals.

Every movement is full of meaning cheerful and happy, so this dance is often used as a dance of welcome gifts for guests or the groom to the aisle. The costumes are colorful with typical peacock accent and the most dominant characteristic of which is filled with sequin wings that can be stretched by the dancer with graceful movements that add a wonderful charm of this dance, as well as the crown decorated with a peacock's head called the singer who will sway each dancer moves his head.

In any event Peacock dance most often shown, especially for the great welcome guests or to introduce Indonesian culture, especially culture Pasundan to the international level.

Sundanese cuisine

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Sundanese cuisine is the cuisine of Sundanese people of West Java, Indonesia. It is among one of the most popular food in Indonesia. The Sundanese food is characterize with its freshness; the famous lalan eaten with sambal and also karedok demonstrate the Sundanese fondness for fresh raw vegetables. Unlike the rich and spicy taste, filled with coconut milk and curry of Minangkabau cuisine, the Sundanese cuisine displays the simple and clear taste; ranged from savoury salty, fresh sourness, mild sweetness, to hot and spicy.

Sambal terasi is the most important and the most common condiment in Sundanese cuisine, and eaten together with lalab or fried tofu and tempe. Sayur asem vegetable tamarind soup is probably the most popular vegetable soup dish in Sundanese cuisine. Another popular soup is Soto Bandung, a soup of beef and daikon radish, and mie kocok noodle soup with beef meat and kikil.

Fresh water fishes such as carp, gourami, tilapia and catfish are usually either beingbakar (grilled) or goreng (deep fried) and usually served with sambal or sweet soy sauce. Sundanese people has developed fondness for salted seafoods. Various fried salted fishes, anchovy, and salted cuttlefish is popular in Sundanese daily diet. The pais or pepes cooking method that employs banana leaf as the wrapper of food is also common in Sundanese cuisine. Among other, pais lauk emas or carp fish pepes is among the favourite pepes dishes.

Chicken are usually either fried or grilled, also served with sambal or sweet soy sauce. Bakakak hayam is Sundanese style grilled chicken. Sometimes chicken also can be made as pepes or soup. Meats such as beef, water buffalo, lamb, or goat can be marinated with the mixture of spices and coconut sugar and fried to make the empal gepuk sweet fried meat, sprinkled with fried shallots. Beef and potato sometimes stewed in sweet soy sauce and spices as semur daging. Cow liver and jengkol stinky bean also can be made as semur as well. Goat and lamb meat also can be made as satay in Sundanese style, such as sate maranggi. Gulai kambing and empal gentong goat meat and offal curry is also popular soup.

If Javanese has developed their fondness for tempeh, Sundanese has developed the fondness for oncom instead, both are fermented products but with different kind of fungi and beans; tempeh is from soy beans while oncom is from peanuts. Sundanese has developed the fermentation method to create distinct foodstuffs. Fermentation was employed either for making fermented food such as oncom, making sauce such as tauco (adopted from Chinese Indonesian cuisine), or sweet snack foods such as peuyeum which are tapai made from rice or cassava.

Dishes

· Nasi Timbel, originally referring to the style of wrapping rice as if it is a lontong; compressed, rolled, and wrapped in banana leaves; it then evolves into a complete dish served with various side-dishes like fried chicken, empal gepuk, jambal roti, tahu, tempeh, sayur asem, with lalab and sambal.

· Nasi Liwet Sunda, one pot cooking consisting of rice and seasoned with spices like galangal, lemon grass, and Indonesian bay leaves. To further enhance the flavour, usually parts of salted fish are thrown in as well.

· Nasi Tutug Oncom, hot steamed rice mixed with roasted oncom, shallots, and kencur, usually served with krupuk, sambal terasi, and anchovy.

· Lalab, raw vegetables salad usually eaten with sambal

· Sambal terasi, mortar grinded chillies with shrimp paste

· Karedok, raw vegetable salad in peanut sauce

· Lotek, boiled vegetable salad in peanut sauce

· Sayur Asem, sour tamarind vegetable soup.

· Oncom, a type of fermented food similar to tempe. Oncom can be fried, made pepes or stir fried with vegetables such as Ulukutek Leunca.

· Tumis Tauco, vegetables stir fried with fermented soybean paste sauce. Tauco is similar to Japanese miso paste.

· Tumis Kangkung, stir fried of water spinach

· Various Pepes, pepes is cooking method employing banana leaf wrapper, various ingredients could be made into pepes, such as carp, anchovy, tofu, oncom, leunca, mushroom, salted egg, etc. The famous recipe is Pais Lauk Emas (carp fish pepes).

· Various Ikan Bakar, literary means "grilled fish", served with sweet soy sauce and chilli dipping sauce. The fish could be carp, gourami, tilapia, or catfish.

· Various Ikan Goreng, literary means "fried fish", served with sweet soy sauce and chilli dipping sauce. The fish could be carp, gourami, tilapia, or catfish. The famous recipe is Gurame Kipas (deep fried gourami).

· Various Ikan Asin, salted fishes, mostly seafood fishes such as peda, jambal, pari (rays), ikan asin bulu ayam, teri (anchovy), and cumi asin (cuttlefish); also fresh water gabus (snakehead).

· Bakakak hayam, Sundanese style grilled chicken

· Empal Gepuk, sweet and spicy fried beef

· Soto Bandung, a type of soto, beef and daikon soup

· Soto Mie, a type of soto with rice vermicelli, spring roll and beef tendon

· Mie Kocok, a type of noodle dish with beef meat and kikil

· Sate Maranggi, a Sundanese style marinated satay usually using goat meat

· Gulai Kambing, goat or mutton meat and offal curry

· Empal Gentong, a type of goat or mutton meat and offal curry from Cirebon

· Laksa Bogor, a variant of laksa from Bogor

· Kupat Tahu, ketupat, tofu, rice vermicelli and beansprouts in peanut sauce

· Asinan, type of vinegar fermented vegetables or fruit dish.

· Baso Tahu, Indonesian style dimsum with peanut sauce, also known as Siomay Bandung.

· Batagor, Baso Tahu Goreng, or fried Baso Tahu.

snack

· · Tahu Sumedang, fried tofu snack

· Tahu Gejrot, slightly fermented fried tofu snack with slices of shallots, chilli, and garlic in spicy-sweet sauce

· Bala-bala, fried dough snack made from various chopped vegetables

· Cireng, fried dough snack made from sago or cassava flour. Aci goreng (Sundanese: "fried sago flour")

· Cilok, flavoured sago balls skewered. Aci dicolok (Sundanese: "poked sago balls")

· Cimol, sago balls snack

· Colenak, roasted cassava with sweet coconut dipping sauce. Dicocol enak (Sundanese: "delicious dip")

· Leupeut, compacted rice with or without filling, wrapped in young coconut leaf

· Peuyeum sampeu, sweet fermented cassava

· Peyeum ketan, sweet fermented sticky rice wrapped in guava leaf

· Comro, fried dough made of finely shredded cassava with spicy oncom filling. Oncom dijero (Sundanese: "oncom inside")

· Misro, same fried dough as comro but instead filled with melted palm sugar. Amis dijero (Sundanese: "sweet inside")

· Odading, fried sweet bread, some variation filled with banana

· Dodol Garut, sweets made from sticky rice powder and palm sugar, with added milk, or sesame seed.

· Kolontong, roasted cylindrical shaped rice crackers with either cane sugar or palm sugar coating.

· Opak, roasted disc shaped rice crackers.

· Ranginang, fried rice grain crackers seasoned with terasi.

· Kalua, dried fruit marinated in sugar.

· Ladu, sweets made from part of fine sticky rice powder and part coarse roasted sticky rice grains, mixed with palm sugar then compacted; usually has triangular cut.

Drinks

·        Bajigur, traditional hot drink made from coconut milk, spices, pandan leaf, and coconut sugar
·        Bandrek, traditional hot drink made from ginger, spices, and coconut sugar
·        Cendol, traditional cold made from drink coconut sugar, coconut milk, and green glutinous rice jelly
·        Es Doger, ice cream-like dessert made from coconut flesh, coconut milk, peuyeum (sweet fermented cassava) and pink syrup (rose or cocopandan)
·        Es Goyobod, the Sundanese version of Es Campur mixed jelly and mashed avocado drink in heavy coconut milk and jackfruit infused brown sugar syrup.
·        Es duren, ice cream-like dessert made from durian and milk

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