Bandung's sights divide neatly between its Art Deco colonial heritage in the city centre and the volcanic landscape on its northern and southern fringes. In the centre, the Gedung Sate and its surrounding civic buildings are a short walk from Braga Street, the old colonial promenade now lined with cafes and boutiques. The pedestrianised Asia-Afrika walk ties them together, with the Asian-African Conference Museum and the Hotel Savoy Homann as the obvious centrepieces.
Further out, Villa Isola and the ITB campus are the best of the early-20th-century architecture beyond the colonial core. The Geological Museum explains why the city sits where it does — inside an ancient caldera — and Saung Angklung Udjo is the place to hear the Sundanese bamboo orchestra performed by people who have spent their lives mastering it.
The volcanic landscape is the next layer. Tangkuban Perahu is the most accessible volcano, Kawah Putih the most photogenic crater lake, and the tea plantations around Ciater and Situ Patenggang offer pleasant high-altitude scenery for a day's drive.