Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine February 2015

108 Travel | Bandung Paris van Java features mock-Parisian streets complete with romantic balconies and wroughtiron streetlamps. You can drink teh tarik in retro-styled kopitiams or sip café-au-lait at a pavement table in a patisserie that wouldn’t be out of place in Montmartre. “I don’t export and I don’t sell my coffee through any outlets,” explains Widya Pratama of Coffee Aroma. “People know it is the best quality at the best price and they are happy to come here to get it themselves.” If shopping is what turns you on, then you’ve come to the right place. To get the absolute maximum out of that wardrobe budget head to the outlet shops around Dago... ‘People will stare – make it worth their while’, says another. And a final one – perhaps less positive – reads, ‘Stressed, depressed, but well-dressed’. Downhill from Paris van Java (Pe Ve Je as it’s phonetically called in abbreviation locally) you find two other malls: Bandung Indah Plaza (BIP) and Cihampelas Walk (Ci Walk). Ci Walk is the place to hang out at weekends for the gaul crowd. To be considered gaul (cool) is the highest aim of fashion-conscious Bandung youngsters. If shopping is what turns you on, then you’ve come to the right place. To get the absolute maxim V

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