Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine April 2019 | Page 85

Travel / Malang
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1. Unique wooden mask and
bamboo hat decorations in an
alley of Kampung Warna-Warni.
2. Visitors love posing on the glass
floor bridge over Brantas River,
connecting Kampung Tridi to
Kampung Warna-Warni.
3. A sunflower farm in
Batu, Malang.
4. Traditional transportation
in Malang.
 est your nerves by walking across
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the glass-floor bridge over the Brantas
River, which connects Kampung Tridi
to Kampung Warna-Warni Jodipan...
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Town (it’s home to 62 colleges
and universities), the Arema FC
Homeland (Malang’s football club
Arema is based in the city), City
of Flowers and City of Tourism.
The latter is well earned: there
are more than 100 tourist spots
spread across the greater Malang
area, not to mention pretty city
parks and an abundance of
tempting eateries.
Start your first day at Kampung
Tridi, near the city square. It is an
area filled with Instagram
moments: the alleys are cleverly
painted to resemble a fish pond,
a flowing river with a bridge,
and a ravine stream, making you
believe for a second that a big
river is ahead. The walls come
alive with their 3D murals.
Test your nerves by walking
across the glass-floor bridge
over the Brantas River,
which connects Kampung Tridi
to Kampung Warna-Warni
Jodipan in the Blimbing
sub-district. Inside Kampung
Warna-Warni is a rainbow of
colour from which nothing
seems to have escaped, from
roofs to walls, stairs to verandahs.
Five minutes’ drive brings you to
Kampung Biru, which, like
Morocco’s famous Chefchaouen,
is a vision of blue hues, inspired
by the uniforms of the Arema
football players.
If you’ve worked up an appetite
by this time, consider an early
dinner of Malang’s famous,
ubiquitous black beef soup,
known as rawon. Served with
steamed rice, this special dish
features black nuts (locally known
as keluak or pangeum edule) as
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