Bandung is the capital city of West Java. The locals' people know West Java Province as the Land of Sunda. This province has its own unique culture and language, both called Sundanese which is also used to call its people.
Bandung is located about 180 km (112 miles) southeast Jakarta. The city is situated on a plateau 768 meters above sea level with a cool climate throughout the year, with the surroundings of lush and beautiful Parahyangan mountains makes the climate mild and pleasant. The scenery is attractive and rolling hills lead up to higher mountains, portraying a bucolic charm and peacefulness, many Bandung Hotels has spectacular view of the whole valley where Bandung is situated. Bandung Travel road from Jakarta to Bandung passes through a beautiful panorama of mountains.
Bandung Nicknamed Paris van Java by the Dutch for its resemblance to Paris and European atmosphere back at the colonial times. The major attraction to come to Bandung is the food and fashion shopping. The food well known for their wide varieties and taste. Bandung is also a place to do fashion shopping with its numerous factory outlets, Distro and stock centres. Its absolutly a shopping paradise.
One of Bandung Shopping Famous is Dago. Historically Dago street was used to be an elite house complex area in Dutch colonialism era. As the main road is Dagoweg [Dago Street] or nowadays namely Jl. Ir. H. Juanda. This elite complex is rich with architecture houses created by old European architects. Today Dago Street is a Business Centre.
Dago Street is exclusive shopping place. There are many shopping facilities and hotels in this street, such as Dago Plaza, Cafe, Book Store, numbers of FO, Dago Tea House Culture Park, Bandung hotels from budget to 5 stars one etc .There is a lot of Factory Outlet (FO) that offer both local as well as imported clothes.
There are also particular shops known as Distro (Distribution Store). They offer home industry products with limited amout and the result those products become exlusive item. Each Distro usually offer only specific product, for instance shop selling only surfing equipment, skateboards, Motor Gede (Big Bike), environmentalist, Devil icon lover's and so on. The other wonderful Bandung shopping area at Setiabudi, Riau street, Cihampelas street, and Furthermore for alternatives, there are Bandung shopping malls traditional Pasar Baru and Bandung World Trade Centre.
Weekend travelers from Jakarta prize Bandung for its factory outlets, These brightly decorated shops offer serious bargains on textiles and foreigner tourists enjoy great value for money.
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