Bukittinggi Town, Attraction

Bukittinggi Town, Attraction

 Bukittinggi is a very rich city attractions. He is also known as heritage city is cool and very friendly.

Throughout the city we will be treated with a variety of interesting attractions. Starting from the natural attractions, historical tours, cultural tours, culinary tours and even an interesting shopping.

Nature tourism

• Panorama high hill

Bukit Tinggi town famous for its beautiful natural panorama. The air is cool and blend to form a green hill and lembahyang variations beautiful natural scenery. Rows of very beautiful verdant rice fields visible from the hill.

While hedge of trees and green forest-covered hills at an altitude white clouds, mountains and plateaus seemed very exotic and indulgent eye.

• Canyon Sianok

Sianok canyon is a steep valley or ravine with a depth of 100 meters. Canyon or ravine stretches along 15 km with a width of about 20 meters. Its location is very strategic in the heart of a high hill.

If visiting the historical sights hole (cave) Japan then, at the end of the mouth of the cave you can see the beauty of this canyon. In the valley there is a river canyon flowing Sianok clear. Special, here still found rare flora and fauna such as Raflesia flowers, medicinal plants, long-tailed monkeys, deer, tapir, and others.

History Tours

High Bukit Padang is a heritage town that holds so much history. He was once the center of the provisional government of the Republic of Indonesia in the early days of independence of Indonesia. No doubt, too many centers of historical struggle for freedom found there diataranya namely:

• Fort de Kock

Fortress Fort de Kock is a stronghold of the Dutch East Indies government heritage. At that time, the fort was a stronghold of the Dutch army chaplain-led troops against Tuanku Imam Bonjol (1821-1827).

As typical fortress, you can see relics of ancient cannons Dutch troops around the fort. In addition, the page you can also menikmatipemandangan fortress town of Bukittinggi nature of the famous Padang beautiful and cool.

But unfortunately if you visit here, you are not allowed into the battlements, considering bentengyang old age. So the visitors must be satisfied at the castle from below.

• Japan hole

Japan is the aperture of the underground tunnel with a length up to 1.47 miles. Besides the main hall, there are tiny passageways that branch from the main hall as much as 21 corridor.

These small passageways, each having specific functions in his time, such as reconnaissance holes, kitchen, prison, dining room romusa, courtrooms, chambers soldiers, torture chamber, ammunition storage, space ambush and escape doors.

Japan hole was built during the Japanese occupation (1942-1945). That said, according to historical records defensive ditch was built with sophisticated tools by the people of Indonesia are captured by the Japanese government. They were forced to penetrate the canyon rocks Sianok with hoes and improvised equipment.

• Clock Tower

Clock Tower is the designation for a tower clock located in the heart of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra Province. Clock Tower is the name given to the Minangkabau society that clock tower building, because it has a clock tower was a "large sieve", or "at large" (large sieve = large clock hours; "large sieve" means big in Minangkabau language).

Such a phenomenal building clock tower called the Clock Tower at the time of its construction, so since the founding of the Clock Tower has become the center of everyone's attention. It also resulted in the Clock Tower used as a marker or landmark of Bukittinggi and also as one of the icons of West Sumatra province.

Clock Tower was built in 1926 by architect Yazid Sutan Dental Ameh. This clock was a gift from the Queen of the Netherlands to the Rook Maker, Controleur (City Secretary) Bukittinggi in the former Dutch East Indies Government. Laying the first stone clock is done Rook Maker's first son who was then 6 years old.

Ground-plan (building footprint following steps overlooking the Upper Market) of the Clock Tower is 13x4 meters, 26 meters height.

Clock Tower is engaged in mechanical and consisted of four hours / four-face clock overlooking the four compass directions with each clock face diameter of 80 cm.

This clock tower has undergone several changes in the peak shape. At first the top of the tower clock is round and on it stands a statue of a rooster. When you sign colonize Indonesia, the Japanese occupation government changed it to shape pagoda top. At the time of independence, its shape changed again into ornaments traditional Minangkabau house.

Construction of the Clock Tower is said to spend a total cost of construction of about 3,000 Gulden, which costs quite fantastic for the size of the time. But it paid off with the famous Clock Tower is a landmark that once a symbol or icon of Bukittinggi. Clock Tower is also set as the zero point of Bukittinggi.

There is a uniqueness of Roman numerals on the face of the Clock Tower is. When writing Roman numerals usually include the symbol "IV" to symbolize the four roman numbers, then the Clock Tower is labeled with the number four roman under the symbol "IIII" (Generally IV).

Culinary Tourism

No doubt Bukit Tinggi and Padang in West Sumatra in particular various types of food generally has a very distinctive and famous everywhere. One type of food that is very popular and fitting for souvenirs is sanjai crackers. Which is one type of food made from cassava is sliced ​​into thin strips.

In Padang Bukit Tinggi, you will find this food anywhere. In traditional markets to malls rise in roadside shops, at the center of attraction even in the street is very easy to find this food.

Shopping Tour

For those who like shopping and hunting clothing and accessories are cheap, Padang Bukit Tinggi is a shopping paradise. Traditional markets are quite famous in the town of Bukit Tinggi is Yellow Aur market, Market Up and Down Markets.

This traditional market is central to the famous wholesale cheap enough in West Sumatra. In this market a wide variety of goods available. Ranging from apparel, housewares, books, accessories, household daily necessities and so forth.

Interestingly, here the buyer free to buy retail ataugrosir way. Each of the tourists who come to Bukit Tinggi definitely took time to shop here at least to buy souvenirs and cendramata. The price is much cheaper than buying directly in the center of the top tourist attraction.