Under attack at the bus terminal
		May 2008 - A bus terminal in Indonesia works slightly different than in most other countries. People working for the bus companies at the bus terminals will help you in a friendly way, but not without some pressure to take their bus, especially when you told them where you wanted to go. Every single passenger is fought over with some yelling, pushing and pulling. Your luggage can even be pulled out of your hands if you are not completely alert. Everything for the customer, but most of the time it does cross some lines indeed. Here are 34 pictures as 'evidence'.

Koffie Aroma - Old fashioned coffee from Bandoeng
		January 2008 - Making coffee requires craftsmanship. Craftsmanship that has been taken over by machines that process modern day coffee from raw beans to packed bags of coffee. There are exceptions however and one of them you can find in Bandung. Behind the central post office in the old Chinese quarter is 'Koffiefabriek Aroma'. This is the place where they still make coffee in the traditional way like it used to be made in the 1930's. More information about Paberik Kopi Aroma can be found here.

Introduction to Bandung

The city of flowers and volcanoes

Bandung is the capital of West Java province in Indonesia, and the country's fourth largest city. Located 768 meters above sea level, Bandung has relatively year-around cooler temperature than most other Indonesian cities. The city lies on a river basin and surrounded by volcanic mountains. This topology provides the city with a good natural defense system, which was the primary reason of Dutch Ea (...)

History of Bandung	The Great Postroad as the start of Bandung

This article details the history of Bandung from the first settlement until the 21st century. Bandung is a city in the western part of Java island in Indonesia. Beside its own city administration, Bandung also serves as the capital of the West Java province and the seat of the chief (bupati) of Bandung regency. Early settlement Although the oldest reference to t (...)

Gedung Sate	The building with the sate stick like turnpike

Gedung Sate with it’s characteristical ornament that looks like a sate stick, has been a landmark building for the city of Bandung for a long time. Not only for residents of Bandung or West Java, but people all over Indonesia recognise the style of the building which has become an example for several other buildings in West Java The building of the railway station in Tasikmalaya is a good e (...)

Paberik Kopi Aroma	A visit to a real coffee factory in the heart of Bandung

If you are in for a visit to Bandung to see the heritage there, you should not forget to bring a visit to Paberik Kopi Aroma, which is one of the companies that has survived time and is still producing until today. They contribute to the uniqueness of Bandung as a city with a heritage. The factory itself is a building that has been built in the Dutch colonial time and has charact (...)

Protecting heritage in Bandung	Protecting heritage in Bandung

The Indonesian Railways prestige train, "Aerogede," makes the uphill run from crowded, muggy Gambir Station in Jakarta to the cool hills of Bandung in West Java in three hours. Vistas change with altitude. Rice paddies that texture flat land around Jakarta give way to tea plantations as temperature cools. Tea plants grow in neatly clipped, orderly rows, a linear topiary landscape that undulates wi (...)

Institut Teknologi Bandung	ITB; Bandung Institute of Technology

Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB, Institut Teknologi Bandung) is a public, coeducational research university located in Bandung. ITB is the oldest technology-oriented university in Indonesia. Established in 1920 as Technische Hogeschool te Bandung (THB), ITB was also the place where Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, earned his engineering degree in civil engineering, concentr (...)

Regency of Bandung	The mountains and hills of Bandung

The Regency of Bandung is a regency in the province of West Java, Indonesia. The capital is Soreang. This regency borders to the regencies of Purwakarta, Subang and Sumedang in the north, Garut in the east and south and Cianrjur in the west and south. Since the year 2007, this regency has been formally split into two parts; the Regency of Bandung and the Regency of Wst Bandung, with as capital Nga (...)

Cimahi	Satellite city of Bandung

The city of Cimahi is a city in the province of West Java. The city is located just west of the city of Bandung. Cimahi used to be a part of the district of Bandung, but it became an independent administrative city at 29 January 1976. At 21 June 2001 Cimahi became an autonomous city. There are three sub-districts in Cimahi and 15 sub-sub-districts. History of Cimahi Ci (...)

Sundanese people	Bandung is located in the heard of the Sunda area

The Sundanese are an ethnic group in the western part of the Java island in Indonesia, numbering approximately 31 million. The Sundanese are Muslim. They speak a distinct language which is known locally as Basa Sunda or in English the Sundanese language. The oldest historical record containing the term ""Sunda" is the Kebonkopi 2 stone inscription dated from 536 AD, refers to the Sun (...)