Leisure acitivities

Tourism Places

2010-05-15T12:37:00.001+07:00

Bali is the right place for abundant Tourism Places, but above all the magic attractions are indeed local culture; Traditional Dances, Religious Ceremony and many other Leisure Activities. Continuing the saga of Bali Vacation, as soon as we arrived at a small Cottage we found ourselves strolling down the busy Kuta Beach; where as the kids had found their amusements by swimming nearby.Kids being

Coconuts Beach Resort

2010-05-04T12:08:00.002+07:00

Our common sense will tell that a Coconuts Beach Resort is located at or surrounding the tropical section of our beloved mother earth, right along the midsection of the earth at an area known as Equatorial band. The Indonesian archipelago is privileged to be resided at such Equatorial band, whenever we go within the archipelago along its coast, there bounds to be a vast amount of Coconuts Beach.

Indonesia Trips, North Sulawesi

2010-04-15T18:09:00.001+07:00

Principally Indonesia Trips may represent opportunity overlooking huge tourism objects covering vast Indonesian territorial. Tourism trip over the Indonesian five main islands could perhaps require a dozen volumes of manual handbook where as most available trip guidance cover mostly on both Java and Bali islands. The remaining islands have had less exposure despite of their inherent outstanding

Bali Vacation

2010-03-01T15:45:00.000+07:00

Exactly six years ago we decided to make a special kind of Family Quality time for a packaged Bali Vacation tour; the eldest being our Grandma where as the youngest was our then 3 years old nephew. We could go by plane straight to Denpasar or train to Surabaya and continue the trip by Java-Bali Ferry, but we did not. Instead we opted to rent a 52 seats Bus for the whole family, and since we were

Bandung Travel

2010-02-19T15:25:00.000+07:00

Technorati Tags: Bandung Travel.Paris Van Java,Bandung Bandung Travel may not sound exotic at all, but it has its own element of charm to satisfy the whole family quality time. Bandung has it all; even to meet three generations of family requirements into a single trip purpose. Furthermore there are plenty of choices for those looking for educative aspect into their family trips, one good

Borneo Travel for Diamond

2010-02-01T15:22:00.000+07:00

Is it due to its Orangutan or rather for a Diamond quest that most of us make a trip? Borneo is indeed famous for the Orangutan population, but this time around it is the Borneo Travel for Diamond. The truth is this travel is beyond a typical family kind of trip. Contrary to our past post-exam trip, it is more like a business trip. The value of diamond is mostly dependent on the skill and level

Bandung Culinary Dishes

2010-01-27T21:07:00.001+07:00

For some peculiar reason our kids has gotten the bite of Bandung Culinary Dishes addiction. Whenever we have the opportunity to have a Bandung trip, the food is always their top priority agenda. Though for traffic conveniences we have only gone to those restaurants within the Northern part of the city. Upon arrival through Cikampek Cipularang Toll road our full packed minivan goes straight to

Bandung New Year’s Eve

2010-01-01T22:19:00.000+07:00

Would you share your unique Bandung New Year’s Eve with others? You betch ya do! After all those bumper to bumper traffic jam at the punishing Cikampek Cipularang toll road to arrive at Bandung, the story must have been worthwhile to tell. As Bandung has many Look Out Points being surrounded by a ring of mountains, it is easy to get the magnificent view of firecracker fierce battle from a

Bandung Holyday Inn

2009-12-30T17:34:00.000+07:00

Thrashing in at Bandung Holyday Inn for the coming New Year’s Eve Vacation will definitely enhance your trip, particularly for the thrilling shopping experiences at the surrounding Dago St...Like many retailers around the Globe shoppers will be lured with the deepest and attractive discount end of the year sales. If you insist on knowing what sort of shopping paradise the Dago has, perhaps the

New Year’s Eve Vacation

2009-12-29T16:12:00.000+07:00

By the time you read this article we should be well on the way into our New Year’s Eve Vacation to Bandung our favourite resort city. We are hoping we could beat that peak season trip’s hassle and along the way we also follow a strict guidance on the Tips to Avoid Stand Still Traffic Jams; need we say more? It is pretty obvious that every now and then the local radio blasts traffic jam

Bandung Spa

2009-12-28T13:03:00.000+07:00

It is virtually impossible to avoid some trip hurdles during this December peak season. Unless you have made an advanced booking on any of Hotel at Bandung already, the chance of getting your favourite room is pretty much slim! Likewise it would be similarly “Mission Impossible” to drive from Jakarta without suffering any traffic hold up despite the best of any kind of Tips to Avoid Stand Still

Bandung Guest House Hotel

2009-12-27T22:09:00.001+07:00

Arriving on Bandung, Accommodation at super budget level. New niche within Bandung Budget Hotel segment is constantly appearing. They are not in business to compete head on with other established Budget Hotel, but rather to complement by offering individual home sweet home cosy quality; the kind of warmth they have claimed could not exist at other Hotel’s “Effective Production Machineries”.The

Parit 9 Restaurant

2009-12-26T20:19:00.000+07:00

Yesterday Leisure Activities did mention the Parit 9 Restaurant a sea food speciality cuisine house, located at Anggrek just off the Riau running to Supratman Street. The sea food house has been in the culinary industry since 30 odd years ago, in early years it started in business at Cendana Street just off the Lapangan Supratman. Cendana runs in parallel and next to Anggrek, both streets offer

Bandung Budget Hotel

2009-12-25T18:58:00.000+07:00

Arriving on Bandung, Accommodation is obviously an important agenda. As Leisure Activities previously depicted attractions at Jalan Riau Bandung and the convenience of staying over at Hotel Santika Bandung, there is no doubt that some travellers opt for lower cost alternative and most probably would not mind to stay away from the crowded shopping Street. The local municipality has forecasted new

Santika Bandung

2009-12-24T17:31:00.001+07:00

Following the previous article on Jalan Riau Bandung the Hotel Santika Bandung is an excellent choice for modern 3 stars accommodation within the famous shopping district. It is located next to a high class Yogya Department Store and just few hundreds meter to the Dago, Merdeka and Riau Streets cross section. As mentioned in the previous article as well on the issue of handling the Group

Jalan Riau Bandung

2009-12-23T16:34:00.000+07:00

Riau Street or Jalan Riau Bandung is one of many popular shopping Streets out of yet a number of tourist attraction locations within North Bandung. This Northern part section had been developed by the Dutch Indies prior to 1930s period and was designed and allocated for its government offices as well as their respective housing areas. The development was the natural evolvement from the year 1812

Hotel at Bandung

2009-12-09T14:28:00.000+07:00

Bandung has again been chosen to host an International convention; the Asian Parliamentary Assembly started last Monday which will last until December 10th to cover three important agenda on market integration, poverty, and corruption. Consequently for safety measures the local police have prepared 2,500 personnel to secure the fourth plenary session of the Forum to anticipate huge protests on

Chevrolet Suburban

2009-11-20T15:36:00.001+07:00

A Chevrolet Suburban in a travel site? For decades long Bandoeng Trip were relying on either motor car or railways, both type of transportation were available to go to or from Bandoeng from the turn of century. Only recently the comfortable means of transportation have been provided by Train, plane and modern motor car. But early in 1970s whenever our Grand Ma paid a visit to us in Jakarta she

Hot Spring Ciater

2009-11-13T15:03:00.000+07:00

Ciater is one of many Bandoeng’s natural Hot Spring, not only it is one of long established and integrated resort compound complex but also better equipped close to international standard with many decent amenities if not superior than others. It was the last location that our kids enjoy immensely during the last school holiday. If the time permits make schedule for Hot Spring Ciater a bit late

Bosscha Leisure

2009-11-06T14:31:00.000+07:00

The last day of our kids school holiday would be the trip for Bosscha Leisure. An old Dutch Indies Heritage of Observatory, built in late 1920s by the then famous tea planter tycoon Karel Albert Rudolf Bosscha who also happened to be one of great philanthropist of the era perhaps might had been close to that of Bill Gates of today. Read more on him at; Frontrunner Science Research #3; Bosscha

Best Guide Trip to Bandung

2009-08-23T22:03:00.000+07:00

Living Family Trips Album We have finally reached the culmination of the first part purposes of our family trip this time around to Bandung as has been set out earlier at previous article on Volcanoe Atmosphere. All kids including the Birthday Girl have been fully enjoying those activities on White Crater, ATV adventures and their Mom on “shopping till you drop” as well as the rest of family

2009-08-16T14:18:00.002+07:00

I’ve excelled at school, my math scores was the highest that I was selected to represent my school for Math Olympic Competition. I’m equally good at my gaming on PSP, PS etc.; this ride should be a piece of cake! There is no way a tree could stop me lapping at the fastest qualifying time. I feel good and I feel confident; as confident as the legendary Michael Schumacher on his F1 Ferrari, as

All Terrain Vehicles

2009-08-09T16:41:00.004+07:00

We finally arrived at the moment our kids have been waiting for the most; riding the all terrain vehicle (ATV). Driving back from White Crater to its main gate seemed to be faster than the other way around; the descending drive got the help from gravity forces. By the way the last long week-end holiday on 20th of July posed a heavy influx of Jakartan, there was regrettably another long traffic

Country House Hotel: UK Heritage

2009-08-06T18:18:00.000+07:00

Rich Historic Cities: Bandung vs Birmingham Leisure activities has been around for almost a year by now. It has been mainly catering on family time holiday in a great historic value of Bandung regency. Unique regency which was undergone redesigned town planning back in 1920s due to the then booming agriculture sector and was supposedly planned for future to be capital city. The booming was as

Corn Break Bandung

2009-08-02T17:50:00.005+07:00

Not many has this particular plant, we used to have one in our Grandma’s in Bandung (it was twenty years ago that I could not recall she told me its name). Hypothetically the plant requires cool temperature, not so for Bandung today. The recent population explosion and relentless City expansion has degraded both the quality and ambient temperature. The Kawah Putih (White Volcano Lake) at

Kawah Putih Crater Lake, Rancabali

2009-07-26T19:34:00.000+07:00

The white crater dominating the view with some bluish appearances on some part adds exceptional dimension which tantalizes our sight; a contrasting picturesque to that of the crowded factory outlet. Certainly a more refreshing one! It took us two and half hours to get here and by the time we arrive at midday noon our stomach started to cry for immediate attention, the bitterly cold 500 meters

Ciwidey Volcano Trip

2009-07-19T17:46:00.000+07:00

Onto the third day of Bandung trip we finally decided to distract kid’s addiction to modern gadgets, and bring them to Bandung’s own natural beauty for a bit of muscle shake down. We had thought of returning back to Lembang’s little Farm then head off for nearby volcanoes TangkubanPerahu. Since most us of had been there we look at other place which is similar in nature, the “Kawah Putih” or “

Atmosphere Volcanoe

2009-07-12T16:22:00.000+07:00

The recent Bandung trip this time around is not our typical family time. First of all it is five days trip, and secondly it was divided into two main stages. One being the phase of quality family time spent together amongst family on my side whiles the second one with my wife side’s. It was deliberately designed to satisfy both sides’ tough demands; failure to comply would be to the

Culinary Atmospheres

2009-07-05T12:41:00.000+07:00

We have planned it all along, but things do not always fall as we do expecting. We’re supposedly leaving for Bandung before midday on the cheerful Saturday June 27th, yet we could reached Cipularang toll gate at 3 pm. Cheerful it was since there was no rain nor too hot either along the journey, but most importantly the traffic was surprisingly easy and pleasant. Not too many long convoy of

Fully Booked Bandung Hotels!

2009-06-26T21:38:00.000+07:00

This week marks the returning school holiday, most student get already their end of year grade. Or should I say the parent by now has learnt their kids doing at school, and whether they deserve a nice trip present for their better passing mark. Actually it is quite obvious that the traffic has been pleasant lately within the inner city of Jakarta, yet it is traffic jam elsewhere. Particularly on

Culinary Cooking

2009-06-15T22:38:00.001+07:00

Culinary art is the art of cooking. The word "culinary" is defined as something related to, or connected with, cooking or kitchens. A culinarian is a person working in the culinary arts. A culinarian working in restaurants is commonly known as a cook or a chef. Culinary artists are responsible for skillfully preparing meals that are as pleasing to the palate as to the eye. Increasingly they

Ciwok & Paris van Java Mall

2009-06-05T20:21:00.001+07:00

As you come out of Cipularang toll and drive off Pasteur gateway, you will be greeted by a bewildering array of retailers, restaurants, hotels and shopping mall. There are no less than two malls, each on your either sides along the way. And there is another two as you are approaching a big fly over bridge cutting through the Northern part of Bandung. The bridge was incidentally funded by some

Shopping Mall Paradise

2009-05-25T23:11:00.001+07:00

Shopping Mall in Bandung Every big city in Indonesia are all seemed to race each other, they are racing neck to neck for building the most super complex and huge shopping centers. Whilst elsewhere around Asia is suffering with many new property developments on hold or simply being postponed, the property sector here resumes a booming period. Surely enough it would be our capital city, Jakarta

Jakartans Flock to Braga Street side Promenade

2009-05-18T19:19:00.000+07:00

Contrary to what happens in US soil as Mighty Detroit succumbs to DC, the Jakartans are voluntary succumbing to Braga St as their leisure activities. This is not Braga city founded by the Romans in Minho, the Northern territory of Portugal. Braga St lays further South to the so called "Old European District", a jargon which has been coined by an anonymous Dutch Indies expert and dully used

Leisure discrepancy between Detroit Vs Bandung

2009-05-11T16:21:00.001+07:00

There is a whole discrepancy meaning between leisure activities in Detroit to Bandung city, or should I say difference instead. It has been 6 months period of time since we touch great implication of downturn economy crisis to world wide globally and in particular both areas Detroit and Bandung. Fascinating stories emanates from the big three in Detroit. The roles and hence powerful UAW, its

Butcher Saga Continued

2009-05-02T17:01:00.000+07:00

Again as I said earlier this is not related to sadistic activities, rather is a leisure activities. Bandung for its climate advantages are fully exploited for breeding and milk farm, where its produces are certainly fresh and healthy. That is why we would see many of its derivative products are in great abundance, such as milk, yogurt and meat. The Butchers from Bandung is also known to produce

Leisure Look Out Point: The Valley

2009-04-25T15:22:00.001+07:00

Technorati Tags: cullinair We are digressing from horrible title into a bit more civilized one, from butcher into a pleasing aura! Yet it depends accordingly to the rightful context, without an expertise of such butcher we would never enjoy our steak or sausage for our meal course. As we all know that Bandung is surrounding by chain of mountain, where as its inner city is full choke of chain of

Leisure Butcher Van Java

2009-04-18T01:32:00.009+07:00

Bandung has many excellent "Look-Out Points", some are well known for the youngster (in a couple format) and a few for those enchanted quality family time while the remaining for somewhere in between.This is located further up from Dago street and not surprisingly there are many restaurant around the area. The picture on the left was taken from The "Valley" balcony. While the youngster prefer

Fish and chips

2009-03-29T14:11:00.004+07:00

Soy bean is the main ingredient resources of our daily dishes, they are good complements to our rice main course. Soy bean sauce (kecap), tempe and tofu (tahu) are the notable main course's complements. That is for some of us, most asian do! What do we know on traditional foods on the other part of spheres? Those who have been priviledged enough to visit the commonwealth countries should have

Cibodas Botanical Garden

2009-03-20T16:29:00.002+07:00

There is yet another long weekend public holiday within a week time. As it happened last week on Easter, Bandung was swarmed by urban holiday seekers. Unavoidable traffic jam occur within the city of Bandung as well as on all the route going into. You might as well prepare ahead, if you follow the Jagorawi toll road there is an alternative route via Jonggol just off Cibubur exit gateway. The

Leisure Activities Content

2009-02-24T18:15:00.000+07:00

Main Content Frame work: We all know blogging is purely designed for personal review and consequently articles are structured systematically as such. What we look at the front page is simply the latest posted article. Hence visitor would be lucky indeed to find a particular review that she actually in desperate to look for. Labeling your bundle of posts does not make searching gets easier either.

Padi-padi

2009-02-17T13:59:00.001+07:00

We arrived one day earlier at Pelabuhan Ratu just to make sure that our parent's 50th wedding anniversary would go according to the big scenario's plan. So, prior to our stay at Ocean Queen as part of the duty, five of the platoon members embarked on a spearheading mission. The main target given to these five commandoes were specific and must be accomplished within a tight schedule. The job

Ocean Queen

2009-02-16T21:21:00.007+07:00

There are three main natural elements that plays an important role as tourist attraction; beach, mountain and lush green plantation field. Not many places offer those three in one package. It is not located inland as Bandung city nor it is located along North shoreline as Jakarta is. Northern shoreline of Java island is relatively flat and fairly close to sea water surface altitude.

Alternative route to Bandung

2009-01-29T21:04:00.000+07:00

Recapping ; "I have in the past made 6 series of articles on Cipularang Toll, and it might grow exponentially! There is still potential of further reviews yet, literally limited by the permutation of all counts on available exit gateways along the toll road." Granted, other means of transportation are also equally interesting. You'll get nice aerial view for fifteen minutes or so should you opt

Roemah Nenek

2009-01-21T20:38:00.000+07:00

It was late evening on the last day of 2008. We had been passing around this Grandma's House a couple of times. Its title alone intrigued us. Did it serve the kind of dishes which our Grandma used to provide us? Did it only sell its old colonial building concept? As soon as we arrived, we were welcomed by the buzzing of new year's eve preparations. There was a sign post indicating people to line

Tips to carry along

2009-01-20T14:09:00.002+07:00

It is fairly obvious for the first time traveller to have many doubts as how to conduct a safe and pleasant journey. Especially those coming from either Northern or Southern hemisphere, where as over here we have only two seasons. Bearing right on the equator (zero latitude), the Indonesian archipelago offers a humid tropical weather. An area where most tropical forest exists and hence insects

Sam's @Dago St.

2008-12-25T17:36:00.000+07:00

A typical lunch time traffic @Dago St. I have now expanding my review beyond the centre of "Old European District". That is to the East of North Eastern Bandung emphasizing on the vicinity of Gedung Sate on 1930s map guidance. Dago is one of many tourist busiest areas, and offer a dozen of good restaurants. The photo depicts traffic's view across "Uptown Outlet" which coincidentally about to be

Post exam

2008-12-19T14:56:00.004+07:00

Most of the schools have nearly finished year end exam period. We again arrived at Bandung, this time with our kids who just finish their exam and craving for a Bandung trip. We were welcomed by this huge ad banner facing to arriving traffic from Cikampek - Cipularang toll. Here is our itinerary : as ours have grown up a bit they have lost the interest on Horse-Riding and instead it is the

Cikampek Cipularang

2008-12-12T13:50:00.001+07:00

Hmm, another subject on Cikampek- Cipularang toll? I really think there ought to be more info on this toll's public facilities. The more people know, the higher elevated of knowledge to enhance a trip's comfort and safety to go to Paris van Java. There are more sign-boards these days telling the next two or three available rest areas on this Cikampek- Cipularang toll. Please, use this

Tips to avoid stand still traffic Jams

2008-12-09T13:12:00.001+07:00

The first week end of this December coincided with a national holiday on the 8th of December. It had spurred an excellent opportunity to get three days off and Bandung was again swarmed by visitors. First casualties of stand still traffic jam occurred on those visitors leaving off Jakarta on Saturday morning. and it continued to pile up some more till late afternoon. Jasa Marga apparently were

Arriving on Bandung : Accommodation

2008-12-05T22:32:00.001+07:00

Finish your breakfast @Cisangkuy st? And your children need bargain clothing as the one that they are wearing get dirty due to the horse riding? A few hundred meter away at Supratman st. you will find an outlet "Cargo". Now it is the time to check on accommodation. There is a nice and lush colonial style hotel nearby "Bumi Asih" at Banda st. in the other direction next to Gedung Sate. Banda

Travel to Bandung inroad via Cipularang toll

2008-12-04T13:39:00.001+07:00

Driving behind a carnival of huge lorries is a testing stamina. Full blasting air conditioner could help you a bit, especially during one of the hottest day. Cipularang toll is one of the best example of unfriendly environment cases. Evidence of deforestation, de-plantation and fully exploitation of human being to environment is abundant here. Every scorching day make the matters worsen, it

Cipularang Rest Area Km 57

2008-12-03T11:52:00.001+07:00

You have just missed the rest area at km 43 as you are busy taking over a parade of lorries? This is just as good and it is less crowded. All petrol stations at these rest areas have a segregated large commercial vehicles filling terminal to those of smaller private cars. No hassle! Most people stop by at less than 2 hours, even if they stop by more than that the parking fee is nil/

Cipularang Rest Areas

2008-12-02T18:43:00.002+07:00

Driving from Jakarta to Bandung now is faster and much more enjoyable. Traffic bottle neck and interruptions by stopping by public transportation buses or mini bus are none. Furthermore apart from nonexistent of swarming motorbike there are more than 5 resting places along the route. They are located (Going to Bandung) at km ; 19, 43, 57, 88 (both sides). New places are being built at km ; 72

Harley Stand

2008-12-02T18:12:00.001+07:00

A Harley on a mock up stand for the coming Detroit show? It is official now that Nissan, Rolls Royce and Ferrari have withdrawn from the show. But Harley Davidson has not join the withdrawal party yet? Nay, this Harley is on display at a very cosy and lush restaurant. In Bandung. You read it right, a 100 grand roadster being displayed permanently to enhance the interior decoration. Available

Cipularang Toll

2008-12-01T16:15:00.001+07:00

Non Alignment Movement or Non Block was initiated by the first Indonesian President the late Soekarno in 1955. Bandung was the centre piece of the movement, and the world was essentially divided into two mainstreams ; either communism or capitalism alignment. Soekarno's effort along with some prominent statesmen from India, Egypt and Yugoslavia was to accommodate a neutral zone. The rest is

Shopping

2008-11-23T18:21:00.000+07:00

So you have spent the whole day at outlets along Dago, setiabudi and Riau street. You need to find a place where you could relax a bit, sipping coffee, having a decent meal, book hunting, get groceries or perhaps still do some branded shopping? All known fastfood and cafe are here, that European largest hypermarket is also here. It is a one stop shopping experience for every family member. A

Mighty Detroit succumbs to DC.

2008-11-20T15:20:00.004+07:00

Around the globe at leisure, Detroit; Last night Marten Feldstein a professor at Harvard says it bold: “chapter 11 is the viable solution for the big three automotive companies”. If 3 millions people are out of jobs, then consequently add another 3 millions from their supplier-chains. Who do you think has the time to read our leisure article? Is there a country with “clear borderline” that is

Perceived values on Bandung

2008-11-12T20:23:00.003+07:00

The purpose of this blog is merely to capture my thoughts and experiences on a particular aspect of leisure activities. Great emphasis would be on Bandung regency has to offer to ordinary visitors like most of us. There are great numbers of information on similar subjects available on the net. Some of them have invaluable knowledge which is highly relevant to my blog's objectives. I will from

Gifts

2008-11-12T17:58:00.001+07:00

No, this is not a toy gifts. Here is a newly built building of a wellknown Bandung's own bakery. As you enter the new building, take the furthest right and you will find huge selection of bakery products mostly. Our favourite are amongst other KS Cookies, a cheese crispy rectangular biscuits wrapped in a nice plastic packaging. Yes we have to opt for non degradable packaging material to keep

Perceived values offer by Bandung-Leisures

2008-11-11T14:50:00.002+07:00

What does Bandung offer to International or domectic tourists alike ? How could Bandung put a unique package that other similar regions do not have? Certainly Bali, Lombok and Yogja have their own merits in comparison. They have greater magnetic pulses attracting millions of visitors. For one thing, Bandung is only at least 2 hours drive away from Jakarta. Those traveling by air, Jakarta also

Horse riding

2008-11-10T20:46:00.005+07:00

There are two places in Bandung which known for horse riding. They both located within the center of the city. One being close to Dago st adjacent to ITB technical engineering school and the other one is within walking distance to Gedung Sate right at Cisangkuy st. Certainly there are many more places offering horse riding, but these two locations are convenient for a multiple tasks. That is for

Why Paris Van Java ?

2008-11-04T14:16:00.004+07:00

Technorati Tags: Dutch indies building Do you know why that Bandung was designed and developed as a beautiful city as those of european major cities ? In 1916 the Dutch Indies government decided to shift their capital city from batavia (now, Jakarta) to Bandoeng. They commissioned a number of well known architect to design ; town plan, parks, government buildings, government officer

Adventurous Leisure ; little farm

2008-11-04T10:50:00.010+07:00