Garut is a small town located about 75 km southeast of the city of Bandung, West Java. City of Garut is also the capital city of Garut Regency. This is a beautiful city, a hilly city, surrounded by typically tropical greenery land farm.
Majority population in Garut is Sundanese, please be informed that Garut is one of the center of Sundanese Cultural.
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| Garut |
High Quality Leather Products.
The most interesting thing that I want to share you is about what you can find there regarding to fashion production. Garut locally already knew as the center of high quality fashion leather industry, they produce high quality but the price is relatively cheap, you can find leather apparel products such as man and women jacket, various bag, gloves, shoes, sandals and various other handy crafts and creative products.
Leather jackets for man or women can be get for about $120 / piece, women leather booth commonly less than $100, women hand bag about $50 up to $100, leather shoes about $30 up to $50. All in high quality.
Leather jackets for man or women can be get for about $120 / piece, women leather booth commonly less than $100, women hand bag about $50 up to $100, leather shoes about $30 up to $50. All in high quality.
Commonly they work in home scale industry, but don’t worry about design and model. They will ready for what ever model you want to buy, some producers there also receive consumer special order. If you have a model that you want to collect, just tell her the model, bargain the price, then they will provide to you.
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| Leather Products of Garut |
The central trade and production process for leather industry located in Jalan Ahmad Yani, Sukaregang (Street of Ahmad Yani, Sukaregang district), near to the downtown of Garut. You will find dozens of leather products show rooms in this location. Garut leather producers accept both of retail consumers and wholesale buyers. Of course price for the both buyers will be different, if you are a resale buyer and want to buy in a big amount, price will be given to you lower than if you are a retail consumer.
Natural Silk and Batik Garut
More than only leather products, in Garut you can also find another apparels product such as home made natural silk clothes and Batik with Garut motif. Those products can find easily on the city down town.
Tourist Spots
While you doing business in Garut you can also split your time to rest your mind here. Garut has various type of view to be enjoyed, Garut also has various culinary to be tested. You can do simple thing to enjoy Garut, walking around the town!
But if you are adventurer you can try to trekking various trek location, like Papandayan Mountain with its beautiful panoramic, Haruman Mountain or Guntur Mountain. You can also visit an old temple complex Candi Cangkuang, in this location you can also enjoy a lake and the local culture near the temple complex.
Kawah Darajat (Darajat Crater) can be also included in your journey plan. Here you can find volcano phenomenon and its research facility.
There are also much more tourist spot to enjoy.
Hotels and Lodging Facilities
Garut has enough hotels and lodging facilities, because Garut is one of important tourist destination in West Java. Don’t worry.
How to reach Garut?
From Bandung you will spent 2-3 hours by land transportation. From Jakarta 4-5 hours will be spent depending to traffic condition. Bandung can be reach from Denpasar ,Bali for about 2 hours using air transport.
