Kagumi Bandung

For some people, rain signifies something romantic. Soothing, if you’d like. The sound of muffled waters hammering down the ground on the outside is something that many people found comforting. The weather all around during the rain is usually very cordial too, making all the ‘rain moments’ the perfect time to snuggle up on your bed, slid your feet into the blanket, hug the pillow, and sleep away.

However, rain does not always come with baggage of pleasant or good things. This is particularly true especially in a place like Bandung.

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I will relegate the second post of this series into discussing about something that is in actuality very closely related to the topic that I have discussed earlier in the first post of this series. Whereas the first post discussed about the state of traffic in Bandung (which is, unfortunately, not really agreeable to the concept of proper traffic management), this second post will discuss about the state of pollution that has pervaded the air of Bandung.

Again, the series of Unpleasant Sides of Bandung posts are not intended to scare you off from Bandung, nor they are a representation of me actively intending to prevent anyone from visiting Bandung. Think of them as things that you can use as warnings so that you will not feel deceived when you visit this city—tourism brochures tend to skip stuff like this when they’re informing tourists about the places they represented. Think of them also as something that you can use to prepare yourself accordingly if you really are planning to visit this wonderful (yes, I said wonderful) city.

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You know, the hospitality practitioners in Bandung would love to have everyone think that Bandung is a perfect city—a city that can provide anyone visiting it with a pleasurable, enjoyable, and impeccable experience at all times, at all places. Yet as someone that have lived in this city for quite a long time, I have experienced firsthand that the reality, unfortunately, is as not as pretty as everyone would have hoped for. By no means that the intention behind this post is malicious in nature, like preventing or scaring anyone to visit this city, but if you are planning to visit this city, then it is perhaps be better for you to know stuff like this, so that: (a) You can better prepare yourself, and (b) You know exactly what to expect and thus, to some degree dissatisfaction and disappointment can be prevented.

This post is the first part of a series of posts I will make to reveal the not-so-pleasant sides of Bandung.

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