Places to visit in West Java, Indonesia
6 places to visit in West Java, Indonesia, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Bogor Botanical Gardens, Gunung Padang Megalithic Site, Bosscha Observatory and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your West Java volume.
1 Heritage site · 1 Famous place to visit · 4 Hidden gems
Heritage sites in West Java (1)
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Bogor Botanical Gardens
An 87-hectare botanical garden in the centre of Bogor, 60 kilometres south of Jakarta, beside the grounds of the presidential palace. It holds 13,983 kinds of trees and plants, and the near-daily rain suits tropical species.
Famous places to visit in West Java (1)
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Gunung Padang Megalithic Site
An archaeological site on top of an extinct volcano south-west of Cianjur, laid out in five terraces held by stone retaining walls. Some 370 andesite steps climb about 95 metres to the top, which is strewn with hexagonal volcanic columns. Sundanese people hold it sacred.
Hidden gems in West Java (4)
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Bosscha Observatory
Indonesia's oldest modern observatory and one of the oldest in Asia, on a hillside in Lembang about 15 kilometres north of Bandung. It sits at 1,310 metres on six hectares of land, its white domes rising among the trees.
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Gedung Sate
A government building in Bandung completed in 1924 to a neoclassical design by the Dutch architect J. Gerber, with native Indonesian elements worked in. It is now the seat of the governor of West Java and also a museum, and takes its name from the satay-shaped ornament on its roof.
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Kawah Putih
A crater lake about 50 kilometres south of Bandung whose milky, pale turquoise water changes shade with the light. The name means 'white crater', after the pale sand and rock around it.
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Tangkuban Perahu
A stratovolcano north of Bandung whose name means 'upturned boat', after its long, flat outline. Visitors walk or ride up to the edge of the crater to see hot springs and boiling mud up close, and vendors sell eggs cooked on the hot ground.
Collecting in West Java
What are the best places to visit in West Java?
LOQAH lists 6 places in West Java. The best known include Bogor Botanical Gardens, Gunung Padang Megalithic Site, Bosscha Observatory, Gedung Sate and Kawah Putih. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in West Java?
6, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in West Java?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in West Java before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose West Java and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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