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Satay Building

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I took this photo when I was holiday to Bandung City . I visited satay building ( Gedung Sate ) who became one of the icons of Bandung City and Province of West Java . Satay Building ( Gedung Sate ) is a place where the Governor of West Java to work . Satay Building ( Gedung Sate ) was established on July 27, 1920, this building was originally constructed as the seat of government at the time in which the Dutch government set Bandung as the capital of the their colonies country in Indonesia.The selection of Bandung City was based on consideration suitable climate because Bandung City is so cool and beautiful natural scenery . That said,climate of Bandung City is as comfortable as the South of France in the summer. During the Dutch colonial time, Gedung Sate was known as the Gouvernements Bedrijven or GB. The first stone was laid by Johanna Catherina Coops, the eldest daughter of the mayor of Bandung, B. Coops and his wife Petronella Roelofsen, which

Cibodas Botanical Garden

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This picture described when I went holiday with my friends . I vacationed to The Cibodas Botanical Garden . I took the picture which in front of the guest house . The Guest House is used to a location for shooting the film . Kebun Raya Cibodas (KRC or the Cibodas Botanical Gardens) is a 125-hectares botanical garden located approximately 1,300-1,425 meters on the slopes of Mount Gede, 23 kilometers to the northwest of the township of Cianjur. The gardens are in the Cibodas subdistrict of West Java, Indonesia, around 100 kilometers from Jakarta. They were founded in 1862 by the Dutch botanist Johannes Elias Teysjmann as an extension of the Bogor Botanical Gardens. The gardens have a collection of almost 6,000 specimens, representing over 1,200 species, and a glasshouse collection of over 4,000 specimens,including 350 species of cacti and succulents and 360 species of orchids. Historically the Cibodas Botanic Garden is associated with the introduction of quinine to Indonesia. Here