Lembang Floating Market Part II & The Great Asia Africa

Finally! it's the last month of our dreary 2020, I really wish I could wrap it up nicely, in a less boring way 'cause well, it's been boring! I was forced to attend online class from February to July and it wasn't fun! it's nicer to be in a class, meeting people in person. So yea, I hope we can start a normal, offline class starting next year. As for new year resolution, as per usual, I have none. Life goes on and that's it, new year or not I still have to do better.

Anyway, my and a relative went to Lembang floating market, again!!! lol, consider this post to be sequel of my latest travel post. This time we went to two places though, floating market and the great Asia Africa. Wished we could have visited more :c

November 12th

One of my favorite chilling spot, a bit cloudy but the weather was nice! 

The matcha lake, as I called it, was still green as ever, no boat today though.

Enjoying my free, warm, welcome drink

Heheheu took this nice jumping pic. Mine turned out bad so I won't post it.

Favorite chilling place numero uno, as I've previously mentioned, I'd spend all day sitting here painting (once I get rid of my art block)

The filter was from Snow app, try it out it's really funny couldn't stop laughing watching this video I randomly took hahahaha. (Sticker was from Inshot app).

Lunch time. I didn't take a pic of the full course menu though, was too hungry!

Never liked posing for pictures because it's just awkward! But here's one.

Cat was following me only because I had dry cat food with me all the time, not because they actually like me :c

Cepot! I like cepot, wayang.

I LOVE this small 'kampung style' outdoor restaurant, very nature-ish with Sundanese vibe! But he didn't like the grilled fish he ordered from this place hahaha.

Wohooo photos come out without back light problem! Happy~

The spiral potato wasn't crispy that day :c so sad, I really liked it though... but anyway the milk was the bomb! 

Hoo, I really like this sweet, ginger rich, "ronde jahe"!!! perfect for cold windy day!

The bunny was so cute, but isn't too hairy for a bunny, rabbit? lol I meant it looks like an Angora rabbit but less fluffier? 

How I wish to have a house with rustic vibe like this ㅠㅠ

This picture comes out nicely!

Another favorite pictures I took~ Yellow cosmos flowers!

Trying out Samsung macro mode. and oh wow Samsung is not bad isn't it? 

I wish this were my own personal garden. lol

View from Rainbon Garden

Met a group of old ladies who asked me to take pictures for them, and they were funny, haha.

What a lovely pathway, isn't it?

Small paddy field

We moved to another place called "the great Asia Africa" in the afternoon, it's only few miles away from floating market. We spent almost six hours in floating market. 09.00 am to almost 15.00 pm, walking!!! and we gonna walk for a few more hours! 

The Great Asia Africa

Jl. Raya Lembang - Bandung No.71, Gudangkahuripan, Lembang, Kabupaten Bandung Barat, Jawa Barat 40391

Entry ticket: IDR 50.000 

Opens 09.00 AM to 18.00 PM

They're selling merchandises here, kinda expensive though.

Can spend hours here with coffee or tea and a laptop.

I'm afraid of heights... but I took this picture anyway.

There's that gondola thing, like, the kind of gondola that's attached to a railway, that you can ride on and it will bring you straight down to the 'real' the great asia africa with only IDR 15.000, if I'm not mistaken. (but it's free at 18.00 PM!). But we chose to just, walk!

 한국 마을!!! I really didn't expect to see this lol.

the box though... lol

This place is selling rice cakes!

Indian areas. Too bad I didn't get the chance to eat in the Indian restaurant inside that building. Ahhh!!! I LOVE Indian food. I'll be making tandoori chicken soon to satisfy my crave!

Cosmos~

Who would've thought this picture was taken in Lembang haha, it reminds me of Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine in Kyoto!

Doctor fish SPA... IDR 10.000 for 10 minutes. I wouldn't try it though... I'm EXTREMELY ticklish.

We came way too late so all the shops were closed :c

Ema plates! But instead of wooden plates... these are just papers! What will you write though?

if they ever put all these up for sale, I'll buy it!!! I'm collecting traditional Japanese stuffs. I have an okay collection of authentic Japanese kimonos and other smaller stuffs, like... oshie kurumie and washi papers!

We only had three hours to explore the great Asia Africa which of course, wasn't enough! The sun sets so fast so I wasn't able to get good pictures and many of the shops were closed down. I'll take more pictures later on, since it's not soo far away from where I live now, only 7 miles away. But I like floating market more than the great Asia Africa simply because floating market was much more beautiful, more flowery and more nature-ish. There's still many places in Lembang I have yet to visit! I wanna go to Orchid Forest, Dusun Bambu, The Ranch, and Farm House!

As I write this I'm still recovering from a dengue fever, again, like, seriously I had dengue fever too last year but this time I refuse to get bedridden in a hospital. I woke up with blood on my pillow in Nov 25th and apparently, the blood was from my right ear. I had it checked by ENT doctor, just in case the bleeding wasn't because of dengue! But doc said everything seemed okay? and I just need RF therapy for my inferior turbinate hypertrophy, which unfortunately can only be done next year due to corona.

I really hope I can blog more frequently though, lol fingers crossed. But let's see I hope I'd have more will to actually post. I downloaded blogger app from Google play store but that app was really meh I uninstalled it right away, I thought it can be nice to be able to write casually from my phone sometimes, but apparently no, lol. accessing blogger from Chrome is nicer.

Anyway, I finally met these cute fluffy soufflés! They're only few months old.

So cute so cute!

They don't have a name yet, any suggestion?

And oh, I decided to separate my Instagram account, one is for artsy stuffs and the new one is my personal-daily Instagram, follow me on @kimyoung_88 if you want! Thankies! 

Lastly, I tried to incorporate short videos to my post now, I tried to use blogger's video but it was sooo bad that I just switched to YouTube. So yeah I hope you enjoy this post and I'll see you on my next post!

I will leave you with my latest favorite music, 너의 의미 (meaning of you) by 김창완. I know I have grandpa's taste, lol!