www.suiteholiday.com-Compared with sultry Jakarta the climate of Bandung, at 768metres above sea level, could almost be called fresh, which is largely why Dutch colonists put down roots here in the 1920s and '30s, commissioning fine Art Deco buildings which survive today. Landmark buildings from that era include two very grand downtown hotels - the Savoy Homann and the Grand Hotel Preanger - on Jalan Asia Afrika and the nearby conference hall built for the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference, when Indonesia's founding president, the mercurial Soekarno, hosted Gamal Nasser, Chou En-lai, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders.

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