Bandung Getaway

Bandung is always been my favorite holiday destination as many others millions Jakarta citizens, the city is just 2 hours away from Jakarta, with cool and breezy weather, a lot of attractive tourist spots, and zillions of mouthwatering culinary places and not to mention the culture and the hospitality of Sundanese people making Bandung always packed with tourist from Jakarta and all over Indonesia.

With that note we tried to avoid visiting Bandung during the weekends and other public holidays, because the traffic is absolutely horrible. Luckly we were able to go there during weekdays because my hubby is on a leave, here are some highlights of our trip to Bandung.

Where do we stay?

Since we were visiting Lembang which located on the west side of Bandung known for its beautiful scenery with lush green and mountains. So we were staying at Green Forest Resort for two nights, which located in Lembang and just 5 min away to Kampung Gajah Wonderland.

waking up to this view

This actually my second time staying in this hotel, I guess what attracted me to choose this hotel is because its beautiful nature surrounding and landscape, this place is also quite and calming just perfect if you want to get away from the noisy and hectic life of big city.

The swimming pool is not very big with 100 cm depth, I guess it's good for children but not so much for adults but the view is amazing very instagramable. As for the breakfast spread is just decent not very much variety but will keep you full until your next meal.

Where do we go?

The first spot that we go is Floating Market Lembang, the entrance ticket is only 15K IDR per person and you get a free welcome drink. The concept of this place is some kind of food market where the vendors are selling their products in a small boat around the lake, there's water rides to enjoy, parks and some fun rides for children. Me and my husband love their water rides we tried the water train and water cycle it was quite fun, the food is quite good with many variety of traditional and western and the price is also very affordable.

The next day we were visiting The Farm House Lembang I would called this place "mini Europe in Bandung" because it present gardens, cafes and little shop with European style. This place is simply charming and adorable, They have mini farm where children can feed the animals such as rabbit, sheep, cow, birds and many others, and they even have the imitation of Hobbit Town like the one in New Zealand, so many lovely spot to take pictures. Just like in Floating market you can exchange your entrance ticket here for a cup of fresh milk or a sausage.

What do we eat?

Did I mention that Bandung is heaven for food lovers, well it's absolutely true. We had lunch at Kampung Daun this place served traditional sundanese cuisine and what make this place special is they accentuate the beauty of nature with their landscape and mini waterfall so you can hear the water streaming. The guest can enjoy their meal in saung a traditional gazebo made from bamboo, we're lucky that they put us on a saung facing the mini waterfall and it so romantic.

view from our table aahh

Nasi Liwet, Bajigur and Teh Poci

I have visited Bandung quite many times but this surely won't be the last, each trip was so special and still so many new places to explore. So do you ever been to Bandung, tell me how was your trip?

Bali With My Girls - Day 1

This is one of my holiday post, I'm really excited about this trip because I got to experienced it with my girl friends which I haven't been done in such a long time. We've decided to go to Bali, I mean Bali is always a good idea and you'll never get tired of it. I pretty much planned the whole trip since it's my favorite thing to do, I booked the flight, hotel, rented the car and planned for our itinerary. 

On our first day we went to Tanah Lot temple. Tanah Lot means "Land in the Sea" in the Balinese language. The temple sits on a large offshore rock which has been shaped continuously over the years by the ocean tide. Unfortunately Tanah Lot was very crowded that day with tourist mostly local and korean, the Sun is not very friendly so hot since we got there on the middle of the day so we didn't spend a lot time there. After getting some iced tea blended at the local shop we continued our trip to one of the hip place in Bali. 

Hot sunny day still manage to hold a pose

Since my last time in Bali on my honey moon in 2011, there's a lot new cool places spreading around Bali and what better ways to visit them other than with your friends. We went to Vue Beach Club located inside LV8 Resort in Canggu area, I booked a cabana by the pool for us to hang out. The place was amazing I really love their white and blue design very chic and clean, the beach is simply breath taking. I'm just gonna let some of my pics do the talking. We're really enjoyed spending the rest of the day here it's so quiet and relaxing, far away from hectic life in Jakarta.

We also had our lunch, loved their drinks so refreshing

The pool and the beach side by side

Don't get tired of my pose, yet!

After visited Vue beach club we headed to our hotel at Seminyak Townhouse to check in and get ready for our next destination. I really recommend this hotel when you're travelling with group of friends or family, it's a townhouse with two stories building, there's two rooms each with inside bathroom on the second floor. On first floor there's a living room and pantry equipt with some basic cooking utilities and dining ware and of course dining table set to enjoy meal together.  

A Late Post on My Singapore Holiday

When the Indonesian people want to get away for awhile to a more sophisticated, orderly and clean city/country we go to Singapore the melting pot of Asia. Singapore is an expensive city to visit in my opinion, with the same budget holiday cost in Singapore we can get a lavish holiday in Bali, but at least there's a lot of promotional flight to Singapore from Jakarta...meh! Anyway here's a recap of my holiday with hubby at Singapore on January, I know it's a long overdue but hey better late than never.

On our first day we visited Singapore Botanic Garden, it's a very huge park in the middle of city and it's very well maintenance of course like every other public place in Singapore. A lot of people jogs and walk their dogs or babies, and kids running around, this is a very relaxing place I wish we had this place in Jakarta such an Oasis of oxygen. Inside SBC there's an National Orchid Garden which by the way just simply enchanting with their various collection of Orchids around the world. Me and hubby had a such a good time walking in this park.

On our second day we went to Sentosa Island, it's a is a popular island resort in Singapore, Attractions include a long sheltered beach, Fort Siloso, two golf courses, two five-star hotels, and the Resorts World Sentosa, featuring the theme park Universal Studios Singapore. I also had chance to ride Luge and Sky ride it was a totally fun ride I had it 3 times in a row for like 23 SGD.

We had a late lunch at Arab Street we try the famous Chicken Briyani and Murtabak they were soo good. By the way we're staying at Bugis area, it's an affordable yet comfortable and convenience area to stayed in Singapore and the best part there's Bugis Market where you can shop till you drop with a bargain. Our hotel is near Bugis Junction which below there's Bugis MRT Station which make it very easy to get around and to get some food.

On our third day we went to Garden by the Bay, a beautiful park in the heart of Singapore adjacent to the Marina Reservoir The park consists of three waterfront gardens: Bay South Garden, Bay East Garden and Bay Central Garden.The largest of the three gardens is Bay South Garden, standing at 54 hectares. Another lovely day to spent it under the Sun along with my most beloved person in the world my dear hubby.

See you soon Singapore!

KL Trip - Part 1

There's nothing more in this world that I love the most than going on a holiday to my favorite places and new places of course, just thinking about the idea make me so excited. This is sort of belated post on Novemb..err (if I'm not forgetting) me and my family take a little trip to Kuala Lumpur to attend my second cousin wedding and of course to experience the city of truly Asia. I mean seriously if New York is the melting pot of the world then Kuala Lumpur is the melting pot of Asia, they got Melayu, Chinese, India, middle east, and other Asian. Yet of all a lot of culture living in the city you would probably think would have highly dense population but of course you got it wrong because the city population is only 2 million people compare to Jakarta with 10 million people ...fiuhh.

rushing to the Airport with no make up on, I'll blame morning flight for that

On our second day at KL my parents and my aunt was going on sightseeing with the relatives from KL, meanwhile me and hubby decided to explore KL by our own with buses, subway and monorail luckily the public transportation at KL is way better than Jakarta. We visited KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Convention Center) one of the popular attractions in KL. My favorite part of KLCC is the huge landscape around KLCC, which I think bring quite relaxing  and refreshing atmosphere to the center of busy KL.

 

On the next days I wished I had taken more pictures of the food since I'm a food-natic, the food was so delicious Malay cuisine is rich of curry and spices kind like Indonesian food but stronger I think, my favorite are Lemak Rice, Tea Tarik and Kandar Rice hmmm...yum. And also I got many recommended places to eat from my Bos whose such a big fan of culinary and traveling but unfortunately I didn't get the chance to taste them all. I really enjoyed exploring KL with hubby, we went to Genting Highland, Bukit Bintang and One Utama, the only bad thing is I can get really moody when we're had been taking a very long walk but turn out that we've gone to the wrong direction this happen few times there, but thank God hubby still got some patience for me.

Satay on Madame Kwok

Sky way

Genting Highland

One Utama