Ladies and Gentlemen, Today, I would like to tell you some tourist destinations in Bandung city.
The first is Gedung Sate. This building was built in 1920 and the architect was J Gerber. In the past this building was called as Gouvernement Bedrijven (GB). This is our governor office of west java. Do you know who is our governor? Ya, He is Mr. Ridwan Kamil. By the way, can we count together how many pieces of meat on the top of the building? There are six pieces of meat symbolizing the cost to build the building.
This is gedung merdeka on asia afrika street. It was built in 1926 and C.P. Wolff Schoemaker was the architect. On 18-24 April 1955 at this building, 29 countries attended Asia Africa conference to make a commitment about solidarity and freedom for Asia Africa countries. Now, some parts of this building are used for museum of Asia Africa conference where you can see some displays, photographs and other documents of Asia Africa conference. Near by this building, we could see Bandung’s downtown with Masjid Raya or Great Mosque as the icon and you may go to the top of the mosque tower to see the landscape of our downtown.
The volcano is Tangkuban Perahu. This is a natural icon of Bandung city. It is 2048 m above sea level. It was officially opened for public in 1971. There are 12 craters with four main craters. Those are ratu, upas, domas and baru crater. The eight crates can’t be visited because it has some poisonous gas. It is a popular tourist attraction where tourists can enjoy the view or take some pictures. There is a legend behind the volcano, The story looks like Oedipus complex, a son who falls in love to his mother. But finally their love cant be unified.
Our city Bandung, also has an art and culture spot, it is Saung Angklung Udjo, a place where you can watch some sundanese perforemances like topeng dance and wayang golek. Here, you may also learn to play angklung. This is our music instrument from west java made of a variying number of bamboos. on 16 november 2010, angklung was designated as an intangible world heritage by the UN. Each angklung performer is responsible for just one pitch sounding their individual angklung at the appropriate times to produce complete melodies.
And now, we are going to explore south Bandung, that is white crater, it’s a beautiful spot where we can take pictures, enjoy the view and walk around. In south Bandung also, we have Patengan Lake with glamping lake side and phinisi Resto as the background of the lake. There, you may get on to the boat, stay at camp in Glamping or Glamour camping and eat our special food at the resto.
Ok, that’s all information about some tourist destinations in Bandung, hopefully, you enjoy the tour, thank you.