Hi, guys. I have come back again to write a blog, my second blog in Worldmappin. Now I will explain my story when I travelled to Malang city and went to the iconic street in Malang, which is the most visited place, where many tourists or just local people, almost all youngsters, and hype folks meet up at those cafes along its streets.
I had travelled to Malang city at the beginning of July, my first ever hometown, where I was born. Looks like Malang city has never changed, same with that atmosphere, as a cozy and calm city with the humble traffic and cold temperature, with nice, humid air, makes Malang not too far from my memory when 10 years I have to left this place.
But the rapid change of the business tourist in Malang, I thought it was gained by mouth-to-mouth and also by the influences of the TikTok sphere that did their UGC travel content about Malang, from their cool place to visit, like cafes and their culinary places, the iconic streets, or the traditional market, and many other things.
Yet, when I have to travel to this city, I have to agree with its differences. Malang has changed into a traveller city with the middle development of its accommodation. Many of the guest houses that represent Malang as a homey and comfy city, yet Malang provides a place where its hometown family goes to visit their place, I guess many of the native people have moved abroad to Jakarta for work and leave their parents as also many of local people had to moved when they have their generation that want to know they grandparent hometown. Thus, for that case, Malang is growing nicely as a hometown-tourist.
Then, Kayutangan Street was the kind of growing place to visit when you travel to Malang city. 10 years ago, the Kayutangan area was just a business district, and many big company placed their office on this street. Some of them are the biggest Honda dealer in Malang city, the biggest book retail store in Indonesia, Gramedia until most famous general bank, BNI. But, after 7 years, this street had to be remodeled into the authentic street views for nightlife and opened many cafes and good hangout places.
Malang itself has many authentic spots for growing many hangout places, throughout the city landmarks that are widely spread, with many of the remaining residential areas that are cozy, and a lot of leftover houses are being renovated into brand new places like cafes and etc. But, Kayutangan is closer to the central spot in Malang, that located between the Tugu Malang and the most old shopping district, or the Town Square called Alun-Alun Malang. Because of that, I think the government has relocated this area to the most famous street.
The Atmosphere of Kayutangan Street in the Night
In my recent residence, which is BSD South Tangerang, there is also a spot for the pedestrian walk, a one-meter-wide area alongside the edge of the traffic, that very authentic, as it is called Ciater Street. However, Ciater street is unlikely same as the Kayutangan for the ambiance. A few of the differences among them are that the local people who visited those places and the key destination, Ciater street, are not prohibited as tourist destinations, while Kayutangan is being built up to be a tourist hangout place.
I loved how Kayutangan street was growing as a very humble place, the atmosphere when you go there, which I remind you is a warm saturation, as there the electricity lamp was used a golden sparks, but despite that I felt like there is warmth yet comfortable in one place, which I notice from its local people. It is also the places where you can find many crowded people, which is caused by the motorcycles parked alongside the streets and also the pedestrian, local people who visited that place.
However, as it grows into a tourist place, many residents have started to share some of their art skills as they sell to the many pedestrians or tourists. The one thing I have to remember is the direct face sketch-up, which is shown off by a very talented local artist in Malang. There are also the pop-up, direct handmade initials of your name from a very adorable colour plastic-clay medium. Many of the artist who sells their art, which is spread along the pedestrian, somehow have fulfilled the Kayutangan ambience.
Beside Kayutangan street now are prohibit many local people to gained that place more like a surprised crowd places when you can found many street vendors which is sells artsy thing also give the street style travel experiences, this place are still hidden a potentials to be must local visit.
The ambiances of meet-up directly with the local people who are the visitors and also the street vendors is very glance my mind. I loved how that place are full with the cafes and restaurants which is the sign of the growth of hospitality in Malang and when you visited that place you agree that its street is not just a common street, is a gem that would be sharpened more.
Kayutangan is a Must Visited Placed that Hidden Many Potentials
There are many reasons why Kayutangan can be a must-visit place while you visited Malang. Is not just given the potentials of local street vendors and the ambiances which is insist more like a traditional into modern of night street ambiances, this place had to relocate into a new of night lifestyle attraction.
With many of cafes and restaurants that you can visit and taste the local until fusion style dishes across the world, that include the best concepts for one and those all of it. Like the exteriors and interiors of cafe that polished for attracts many visitors also its different of the concepts for each cafes and restaurants makes a common senses of great places to visit.
We may known Malang as a culinary feast places, however its really true. The local people who also manage and reconstruct Kayutangan places to become a seriously culinary street is never miserable. I loved how its places become the hangout places for many of circles.
There are also many spotted places for us to take a picture alongside its streets. You can find the spot like a AI night style of photoshoot but this is in real life, the crowds, the golden street lamps across many of spot, the benchs which is the trendmark of this place, the local street vendors, the exterior of open space cafes and restaurants, the motorcycles parks along is streets, the mural wall, and others of spots you can not find in another spaces. I did many of picture taken by candid and close up with my family members who are spent our great experience at there.
Unfortunately, I am not having dinner in those spot, because the time before we are decided to dinner in another places which is also the trendmark of Malang (soon to be write after this). So, we just visited into the places just for buying and looking the souvenirs, the modern style that adapts the contemporary art, called Skwero. Its store are one of the most hypes store that sells a lot of handycraft combine with the technology and creativity.
You can find many of adorable hand size stickers which is fits for sticked in your laptop, dekstop, your car windows and etc. As also the crafts of the keychains which is made by beadles that is timeless yet cute. Skwero may be the hype places to buy many of souvenirs both for the gift switch for your friends or just buy for your memorable because the crafts is really interesting.
Besides that Kayutangan grow as the local hype places, I think there also need to be upgrade more for the seriously a place called gems. I know about the developed of its culinary feast in Kayutangan, however, the street vendors is just bold by the modesty and basic of its tools, there must be a governance touched to make its local street vendors to be worth by many aspects.
Because whenever you look out the street vendors which is still efforts to make a selling for their services or local products, it might not be left alone they with a limitness of vendors requirements. They just want to be a worth local street vendors which is need more attention between the center of Malang tourist accommodation representative. I think that every of less fortunate people must be adapts any helps for the responsible parts throughout that case of tourism attractiveness in their region.