Senandung Bandung (Day 2)

The second day of our trip, we went to Bandung. From Jakarta to Bandung, it took about 3h++ combination of highway and creepy roads. Why do I say creepy? Coz there are times where we would be on very rocky roads, very narrow one, entered some sort of village area which have their very own toll system (YES they charge the transport that trespasses their place). Pak Kuncoro charged us about 570k Rp for 12 hours (hwarghhh tak ingattt) - minyak semua included.


One thing you have to know about being tourist in Indonesia (as far as my experience lah) - there are pengamen everywhere. Particularly in touristy area, of course. Pengamens are ermm..those who do/sell anything in exchange for money lah of course. They would sing, pray/baca selawat for you, and sell cigarettes, tissue, toys in the middle of the road. There are also lil kids who are just plain beggars that sells their sad faces/stories to buy our sympathy in terms of $$. At one point you just have to be rock-hearted (hati batu? LOL) and just shoo them away. I know, keji right? But if you were to entertain all of them pengamens, at the end of the day you would be one of them, really!


We went straight away to the non-shopping places first. The first place was Kolam Air Panas Wisata Alam. They charge us, but I'm sorry I forgot how much..wuwuwu...There is place for you to dip (?) your legs in the hotsprings that is believed to have some healing effects and place for you to swim. I didn't know that!

we paid 2000Rp for this picture. lol

rendam kaki disini

When we were there, there was this ice-cream seller who appeared to be very kind-hearted to show us around and help us to take pictures. Little did we know that they are also some kind of pengamen in a uniform and at the end we were kinda forced to buy their mat-cool-like icecream for 15k Rp (that's almost RM6 y'all!!) hahaha..what a joke. We didn't spend much time there since our time in Bandung is very limited.

the (con)icecream men!!

The next stop was the famous Volcano site - Tangkuban Perahu, about another 30mins of rocky and narrow roads from the hot springs. They charge us I think 15k Rp per pax - after Pak Kuncoro lied to them that we are Indonesians coz they would charge double/triple for non-Indonesians. Confident je Pak Kuncoro cakap kitorang dari Bintaro eventhough it was quite obvious we wore Malaysian style tudung. Nasib muka ada iras-iras Jowo sikit tu buleh pass kot. LOL.


The view is quite nice and the temperature is a bit colder than the town. Since we were bunch of lazy tourists we didn't tour around much. You can also hire a guide to bring you down the kawah - like going jungle trekking like that. Be prepared to endure lots and lots and lotsssss of people who will be bugging you to buy souvenirs. They are as many as the tourists there and if you decide to buy stuff from them make sure you negotiate for the lowest price - the kind of price when they agreed to sell but their face is like crying already. haha...ketuk sampai orang tu nak nangis sapa suruh paksa kita beli barang. lol.

took picture we 10001 negative thought of being pushed down into the volcano. lol

souvenir shops

Next post - the famous factory outlets and our paranoia.