Bandung, with factory outlets and bakeries to sell the ubiquitous Brownie , this city has long been looking for a popular destination for Jakarta Folk for a cooler shopping experience. Now, of course, with the advent of budget airlines, it is not only Indonesians flocking to splash the cash. People from Malaysia and Singapore discover it for a refreshing weekend makes.
There are a Bandung has many back centuries. But the Bandung, the Asian-African Conference held, the city that attracts both visitors and locals, is for all intents and purposes a Dutch creation. It was the Dutch who was the original village on a few miles to be moved, it was the Dutch who brought the train and it was the Dutch who Bandung made a must, with its gardens and art deco architecture in the round the world tour on the nascent see the early 20th century.
There was therefore a little surprising that the Indonesians, in their childhood as a sovereign state, the city should choose the rise of the new generation of land from the kingdom to showcase carved.
1955 Asia Africa Conference, hosted in the west Javan city should to point the way for the new nation-states, the only itself was of their unwanted overlords los and their tutelage. In the conclusion of the path mapped forward and offered a better future of lessons the hard way.
If Bandung can be said to have a center, then it is probably where most Preanger Hotel is now located on Jl. Asia Afrika. This is the original way Groote Post. Just a few steps from the Preanger is a KM 0 marker, which marks the beginning of the road. The length of Java
Cross the street and enter the art deco Savoy Homann Hotel was reached. Back in the 1920 Bandung was known as the Paris of the East for its leafy boulevards and fashionable cafes, Jalan Braga lined. When the beautiful people stay, came they stayed at the Savoy Homann, including Charlie Chaplin. The smooth, rounded edges of the outer guide of the hotel some this call the 'Ocean Liner "style of Amsterdam Art Deco.
Today the road is after 9am crossing is not for the faint hearted, but back in Bandung heyday guests at the Savoy Homann would traverse in the Concordia society socialize. the planters and officials Bandung home called the bar to chat while the ladies and her beau in the large ballroom making Concordia the place to flirt would be.
a generation, a war and independence later the likes of Sukarno, Jawarhal Neru, Nassar and Zhou En-Lai, who came together for the 1955 Conference that this road its name. one wonders what the leaders of the new and allegedly nonaligned nations thought of the ostentatious environment where they drew their final communiqué.
Today this proud building stands in silent tribute to a different time. Its curved walls have seen many changes over the years, but now, with the name Gedung Merdeka, there is a modest museum detailing the events and the characters of the 1955 conference, when the eyes of the world on Bandung were for a moment.
Just a short walk is west of alun alun (public found in a traditional Japanese cities like Cirebon, Solo and Yogyakarta Place). After the colonial style before we fall now headlong into something truly indigenous still crucial. For it is here that the Bandung-chief at the time was, RAWiranatakusumah, 19th century, Herman Daendals.
is laid on the north side of his seat of government under the "leadership" of the Governor General early the Great post office, a throwback to the early days of the Groote post, while a road heading north, Jl. Banceuy also evidence of historical postal service. Banceuy is a Sundanese word posthorses meaning and they probably were stabled near though, as you stand at the traffic lights overlook wonder how any four-legged animal would take 5 minutes to let alone a horse.
Take the next right turn along Jl. Otto Iskander and enter Pasar Baru. A Panther made the mistake until 1920 to come here again for his efforts get zapped. This street and the side streets leading off it has some interesting old buildings that survive in this day and age. Before the Dutch come in numbers began here, it was in the nature of a Chinese population slightly but that in the 19th century when large profits were in the nearby hills and the railways, the changed made arrived in 1884 promised products in about three to Jakarta to provide hours.
where again far away days, railway tracks divided cities. South of the title was, where people played; the cafes and bakeries on Jl. Braga, the Concordia, the Savoy. North as the road rose gently, was where people lived, defended and ran the growing city and its surroundings. available only through the Hyatt hotel today some impressive white buildings washed. After the chaos of Jl. Asia Africa it is refreshing to go on the wide, quiet streets that surround today used by the Indonesian armed forces, the military cantonments.
Today's visitors not eligible for the old buildings or the history, the streets stirred in Bandung, but its factory outlets. Every weekend the new toll road from Jakarta's congested than families, to fill the car and. South to the cooler climes and lower prices J L. Martadinata, popular as Jl known. Riau is a mecca eyeing a bargain for these buyers.
At the corner of Jl. Riau, you may find in this area, the streets are named after distant islands in the archipelago, and Jl. Banda is a factory outlet. No surprise there. But this particular store is located in a large old house housed dates back about 100 years. In another time it was the home of a planter, a pioneer of his coin in the lush Parahyangan Mountains surrounding this cool city.
Perhaps, checked the accounts after a busy day, he would mount his horse back and head to the way we have just come through the cantonments, over the railway line, down Jl. Braga at the Concordia for some cold refreshments.
surrounds this single-storey house with its columns of the front door seems uncomfortable with the current version. The cars seem to fill their car park to offend almost this grand old lady, but the empire is gone. It is not to decide for visitors, what should happen to a city heritage.
Bandung symbol of Gedung Sate is, but it was Dutch built with this building, the Dutch made a statement. They wanted to move their capital from Jakarta, then known as Batavia, Bandung and they wanted to govern their faraway kingdom designed by Gerber this building.
With a reference to local influences of the central tower was crowned with on a traditional three tiered roof and above that was a single rod sate; impaled small pieces of meat and ready to eat.
time dictated the Dutch Bandung could not be excluded. was built 25 years after Gedung Sate Indonesians were to proclaim independence. A planned parkway to mystical Tangkuban eventually leads built by people who might understand the sacred connection between the rulers and the spirit of the mountain, which dominates the skyline to the north.
Our journey through Bandung took us back through time and the right to the modern day. forced Daendals laying of the original village, we have where the elite player, seen remained, but we can look at the end of a mountain, the generations of young Indonesians.
The perhaps inspired the lasting memory of colonialism. It is transitory, it can never, because take, while a body of people might subjugated, soul can never be, if they do not allow it.
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