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You will reach Bukit Tinggi or high hill, a city located on highland in WestSumatra. This is the land belongs to the one of the Indonesian Matrilineal System which is still strongly hold by the locals. They have beautiful houses built on stilt decorated with buffalo horn shape. Padang is the capital of the province which also used as the name of people who come from this area : " orang Padang " known as the most business lovers in whole country. In every cities in Indonesia we have " warung Padang" - local restaurant sell Padang food which mostly spicy. After 3-4 days in West Sumatra we move to Java the most populated island with 100 million people to see Jakarta the capital of Indonesia for Sunda Kelapa the old harbor with hundreds of local boats, National Monument Park - 100 meters high monument with 33 kg frame gold on the top, National museum consist of archeological statues from all over Indonesia and Indonesia in Miniature Park where you can find 26 traditional houses from 26 provinces of Indonesia where you can find all different handicrafts are exhibited inside. For
Nature lovers, you can drive to the west part of the
island to Carita Beach where you will boating to Ujung
Kulon for one horn Rhino, trekking in rain forest and
bird watching. Or from Jakarta drive to Bogor Botanical
Garden to continue to Another
choice is East Kalimantan for the Dayaks and their long
houses, fresh water dolphin, orang utans, proboscis
while having River Safari on Mahakam River.
Length of stay absolutely depend on your holidays. You could not spend once to explore the whole country. To be honest, I need 3 years to cover the archipelago.....INDONESIA "Tanah Airku" my Land and Water. What is your interest? Please e-mail me : info@baliassociates.com |
Tour
may start from Medan of North Sumatra or Jakarta or
BALI. If you start from Medan, the capital city of
North Sumatra, it is served by almost daily flight
from Singapore by Silk Air and Garuda Indonesia. The
main point of interest are: the Batak people, Batak
traditional houses and Lake Toba with a little tiny
island in the middle - the Samosir Island.
After 3-4 days touring here, there are two options,
to drive back to Medan and fly out to Java or to continue
overland to West Sumatra the land of Minangkabau
via Sibolga, Tarutung and Padangsidempuan. This overland
will be passing villages, rice fields, farms, hills,
rivers and rain forest.
Bandungthe
center of Sunda land for Tangkuban Prahu Volcano, Tea
Plantation and Angklung the bamboo musical instrument
or from Jakarta fly to Yogyakarta for Borobudur
and Prambanan temples, batik factory and silver smith.
There are another two options to drive on to East Java
for Bromo Volcano, 
Or
to the South East is the Lesser Sunda Islands consist
of Flores, Komodo, Sumba, Timor, Alor, Lembata, Lombok
and Sumbawa for its colorful textile mostly by
tie and dye metod (Ikat). Here you will find the 2-3
meters long Varanus Komodoensis, traditional villages
in Flores, Sumba and Lombok, textile almost in every
islands with different pattern and colors, Kelimutu
the Three - Color - Lakes in Flores.........one of THE
WORLD SEVEN WONDER. The colors are: Blue, Turquoise-Green
and Brown. 29 years ago I have witnessed the colors
were: red, white and blue.
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