bandung hotels, tourism and travel

Sunday, 16 April 2006 10:43

Located 40 km South of Bandung in Pangalengan sub district, the region that is famous for its mild climate and its tea plantation. It is accesed with adequate transportation facilities. It takes you an hour by car from Bandung to get there. Pangalengan produces the most milk in Indonesia. So abundant, the milk sometimes can not be stored by the milk processing manufactures. Then the cow breeders initiated to make use of the unprocessed milk into kinds of dishes, such as : chips, candies, and taffy. They become famous Pangalengan special dishes.

The area around Lake Cileunca provides fertile soil that produces vegetables. The 1.400 ha man-made lake overlooking fascinating mountainous panorama. The temperatur turns 16⁰ C - 18⁰ C, on a clear weather it reaches 23⁰ C. Water of lake is used for hydroelectric power porposes, for drinking water and for irigation.