Saturday, October 24, 2020

My Holiday Story before Corona Era

Before Corona infected Indonesia, my family and I vacationed in Bandung for refreshing. At 01.00 pm we went to Bandung. We would stay in Bandung for 1 day, so we brought a change of clothes and some snacks to eat on the trip. When everything was ready, we went to Bandung and my father drove the car.

3 hours later, we finally arrived in Bandung at 3:00 pm. We stopped by a mosque first to do the Asr prayer, after that we went around the city of Bandung. At that time, my father also booked a hotel, because now everything's online, so booking hotels was easier and faster. After successfully booking a hotel, we immediately went to the hotel to take a break. At 08.00 pm we went for a walk around the hotel to find food, a lot of typical Bandung food sold there and looked very tempting. Finally, we choose to eat at seafood restaurants that are already famous in Bandung.

The next day, at 09.00 am we went to the Great Asia Africa in Lembang, Bandung. the Great Asia Africa is a tourist spot, where we could feel a sensation like being in Asia and Africa. We took a lot of pictures because there are lots of beautiful photo spots, there are "small countries" from various continents in Asia and Africa, such as India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, etc. In Korea, we could try to wear traditional South Korean clothes, namely hanbok. Besides that, we could also enter traditional Korean houses and saw lots of miniature Korean traditional buildings & accessories. We felt like we were on vacation to Buckchon Hanok Village. Next, we went to Japan, there was a duplicate of Fushimi Inari Taisha, a shrine that is located in Kyoto, Japan. We can also rent traditional Japanese clothes, kimono. There are also Japanese specialities, such as takoyaki and Doraemon's favourite food, dorayaki. Apart from that, we were able to see a beautiful and charming view of the Sakura tree. Then we went to Africa, there were traditional African house buildings and also African foods, namely African satay.

After going to Africa, we went to India, there was a miniature spot in the city of Jaipur or what is commonly called Jaipur India's City, which is quite large and colourful, we could rent traditional Indian clothes; Lehenga Choli. Next, we went to Thailand, there were also quite a lot of Thai knick-knacks. After going to several countries we went to our home country, Indonesia. Yup, there was also the Indonesian region, where the place is a mixture of Balinese and Sundanese. We decided to eat in the Sundanese area with a menu of traditional Sundanese food, one of which is Nasi Liwet.

Apart from the typical regions of the countries, there was also a food court that sold Asian and African food and drinks. There was also a café selling snacks and Turkish coffee. It felt like we were going abroad. Very exciting.

When the clock shows 3:00 pm, we went back to the hotel and rested for a while, then we went home, back to Bogor. That's the story of our vacation which was very pleasant before Corona took our time to go on vacation.

Here are some photos were taken while at the Great Asia Africa:

Baymax in Africa

Baymax in Japan 

Baymax in Indonesia


note: this story is included in domestic type tourism which is a tourism activity of the people within their own country.

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