If Bandung visit there are many attractions and parks in the surrounding mountains to explore. Included among these are waterfalls, lush tropical rainforests and markets, some of whom may not know.
Curug Cibareubeuy
Curug Cibareubeuy (Curug means waterfall in Sudan) was once a popular weekend destination for tourists and locals adventurers. Now unfortunately the trail and facilities are overgrown and leave the main gateway.
While a little off the beaten path, Curug Cibareubeuy is only an hour's drive from Bandung near Ciater, where to the right follow the main road turn a narrow road past hot springs resorts for 10-15 minutes to the village Cibeusi. In these days of the start of the track is quite hard to find, but if you ask the people on the ground in Cibeusi, they will assist with directions. The entrance is just a dirt track that starts steeply on the right side of the road. As you squirm your way up the hill there is a broken and partially overgrown concrete way takes away from vegetable gardens on the left side and a relaxation area with a few huts. Further, located on the main access, where you have an option, sharp turn to the right and climb upward briefly on a mountain path that follows the ridge. This is a good track, although watch out for the occasional low branch. Alternatively, you can go straight to a broken concrete path running alongside a water canal. That's pretty damp in parts, especially in places where the dam is broken.
Overall, the path from the road to the waterfall is about 5 km, you can take through the thick vegetation, which is kept lush and green from an average rainfall of 00 mm per year. From the valley far below you the dull rattle of peasants can hear voices, the rice fields and the sound of the fast flowing river tends fed by waterfall to electricity. If you select the track on the high side of the ridge, you have to turn left, when it ends and then turn off after the river on a bamboo bridge to the right, which is the entrance to a small village retreat with straw huts scattered among the rocks and gardens. This is a charming place and an inviting rest area for visitors.
Just a few hundred meters to the waterfall appear suddenly and simultaneously drowned the roar of the waterfall the omnipresent noise or the birds and insects. The final challenge to reach the rock pool at the bottom of the waterfall is climbing over the rocks and climb alongside the water's edge to a viewpoint. Depending on weather conditions, the spray can be refreshing or uncomfortably cold, but despite this strip temptation and jump into the pool and shower under the waterfall is hard to resist. In addition, the experience is on a hot day thoroughly invigorating and a memorable experience, well worth the effort.
The journey is relatively simple back, but caution must be taken in the narrow way, where the dam is broken away in places and near the road where the last path downhill to rain is very slippery.
return to Bandung, you can lunch in the Ciater hot trap sources. If so, the Gracia Spa Resort is highly recommended. The entrance can be found a few kilometers on the left side of the road to Bandung.
Pasar Minggon
If you like the street markets, there is a particular one I would recommend that are not good for the visitors from outside Bandung is known. It's called "Pasar Mingon" what a market means that is only open on Sundays. Located on one of the ridges that run down from Lembang to Ciumbuleuit, this particular area is also called Punclut.
The most popular entry into the market is at the forefront of Jl. Ciumbuleuit where if you turn left at the roundabout, it is 0 meters up the road on the right side. From the beginning, you will be amazed at how busy this narrow street market increases and overcomes the ridge several kilometers. This is a very fascinating experience that stimulated with a cacophony of market sounds, vivid colors and infinite variety of flavors of Padang and Sudanese restaurants and takeaways all senses.
The audience a mixture thereof is their Sunday morning exercises get, bargain hunters, hikers and enjoy thousands of people their makan pagi (breakfast) on a large scale. In addition to the market, the other main attraction is the view of Bandung from dozens of eating houses with local and coastal food - steamed, grilled, fried, you name it - seafood, offal, beef rendang, sop buntut, corn fritters, croquettes, tofu, tempe , spicy chicken, snails, exotic fruits and vegetables, etc. for all these people have many tons of food brought his overnight there to do justice to this feeding frenzy to operate on the market.
to addition to the endless food stalls, the street, there are clothes of all kinds, shoes, hats, sarongs, gadgets and potions, the key here is the line along by the crowd supported to resist and stop the time can, take and for many treasures to be found to look.
the other way to the street markets can be seen to take a vehicle to the top of Jalan Dago and turn towards the school Stanford international left. Drive past the school until the end of the road and turn right and follow the road to the top of the ridge. From here it's all downhill, passing many food stalls and restaurants, most on the left side, with stunning views over Bandung. If you have a driver, ask him to drop you off and meet at the roundabout at the top of Jl. Ciumbuleuit. Depending on how fast you walk and often you have to stop for food, or to buy different nick knacks, then it should take between one and two hours. If not the shopping type, you do not put you off this fabulous foot. It's just a fantastic experience to share the morning air with thousands of others to get their weekly exercise.
If you like outdoor markets, this one has a real buzz.
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