Bandung Bandung Jl. Braga Jl. Braga

Surrounded by lush coffee plantations, Bandung was a social magnet for the colonial elite. In the roaring twenties, artistic freedom and economic prosperity fuelled a tropical Art Deco building boom of Indo-European hotels, cafés and boutiques along the main boulevard, Jl Braga. The charming hill retreat that was once known as 'the Paris of Java' has long evolved into a dense metropolitan area, but if you look carefully, you’ll see traces of its carefree and prosperous past.