Enchantment Tours in Bukittinggi

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Synonyms And Synonyms
Synonyms And Synonyms
CITY Bukittinggi is one of the city in the province of West Sumatra, Indonesia. The city was formerly called Fort de Kock and was once also dubbed as the Paris van Sumatra in addition to the city of Medan, and the town of Bukittinggi was also the capital city of Indonesia.

The city is the hometown of one of the Bung Hatta proclaimed Indonesia, also known as the city of heritage with the Clock Tower, a landmark in the heart of height, shaped like a big clock Big Ben, as well as a symbol for the city which is also located on the edge of a valley named Canyon Sianok.

In addition, the city of Bukittinggi is also famous as a tourist city cool temperate, and siblings (sister city) with the Seremban Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia.

It also has the most beautiful places. Well This is where you should sambangi:

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 community building clock tower, because it has a clock tower was a "large sieve", or "at large" (at large sieve = large clock; "large sieve" means big in Minangkabau language).

In such a phenomenal building clock tower is called the Clock Tower was built at the time, so that since the establishment of the Clock Tower has become the focus of every person. 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 Gigi Ameh. This clock is a gift from the Dutch Queen to Rook Maker, Controleur (City Secretary) Bukittinggi on the Government of the Netherlands East Indies first. Laying the first stone at this do Rook Maker's first son who was then aged 6 years.

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

Clock Tower is engaged in mechanical and consists of four hour / four hour advance overlooking the four corners of the wind direction with each face at a diameter of 80 cm.

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

Development of the Clock Tower is said to spend a total cost of construction of about 3,000 Gulden, costs classified 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 figures at the Clock Tower face this. When writing Roman numerals usually include the symbol "IV" to symbolize the four roman numbers, the Clock Tower is labeled with the number four roman under the symbol "IIII" (usually IV).

Canyon Sianok
Sianok canyon is a steep valley (cliff) located in the border town of Bukittinggi, with District IV Koto, Agam regency, West Sumatra. The valley is elongated and meandering as the southern border town of Koto Gadang canyon until the canyon Sianok Six Tribe, and ends up Palupuh. Sianok canyon has beautiful scenery and become one of the major tourist provinces.

This gap within approximately 100 m stretches along 15 km with a width of approximately 200 m and is part of the fault that separates the island of Sumatra in half lengthwise (Fault Semangko). This fault forms a steep wall, even perpendicular and form a green valley - the result of decreased movement of earth crust (sinklinal) - who fed bars Sianok (mean stem of the river, in the Minangkabau language) where the water is clear. In the Dutch colonial era, this gap also called buffalo sanget, because of the many free-living wild buffalo in the bottom of the canyon.

Sianok rod can now be forded by using the canoe and kayak yg disaranai by a water sports organization "Qurays". The route taken is from village to village Sitingkai Lambah Stem Palupuh for about 3.5 hours. At the edges still found many rare plants such as Rafflesia and medicinal plants. The fauna found such long-tailed monkeys, gibbons, hoop, deer, wild boar, leopard, and tapirs.

Japanese hole
Japan is one of the holes ramble existing objects in Bukittinggi City and is a historical relic of the Japanese residence during his stay in Bukittinggi.

Due to a very strategic Bukittinggi, located in the middle - the middle island of Sumatra, the Japanese invaders set of Bukittinggi as the Japanese Army Defense Command Center in Sumatra (Seiko Sikikan Kakka) led by General Watanabe.

As for Japan's military fortifications made tunnel under the heart of Bukittinggi, besides functioning as a defense was also prepared as a store of ammunition, barracks, dining room, hospital, court room and kitchen, a total of 27 rooms and is a complete complex, such as floor plans which can be seen on the entrance wall.

The length of the hole contained Panorama location is approximately 1400 meters, while the overall length of which is under the city of Bukittinggi is expected to more or less around 5000 meters, thus the manicured / maintained only 30% of the existing holes.

The main purpose of this hole is the basis of Japan's military defense of the Japanese occupation of the Allied attack, the construction is very confidential, and no one knows exactly when this Japanese hole began to be built. Can only be predicted a few months after March 1942, when Japan seized the hand of Bukittinggi from the Dutch Government.

Unskilled workers to multiply these holes taken from the people - people of Indonesia who were arrested from other areas, such as from the island of Java, Kalimantan, South Sumatra, etc., whereas the catch from Bukittinggi itself be brought up again to another daetrah to impose also employed on the project - Other projects, such as le Lodge for m, embuat railroad which will connect Muaro Sijunjung with Pekanbaru in Riau. But this work does not go slesai, because Japan lost to the hands of the Allies trigger.

Technical workers in the construction of this hole to be taken from people - people of Indonesia who work in the Coal Mine Ombilin Sawahlunto originating from the island of Java.

All unskilled workers are not sati nobody paid that can save themselves, all of them die due to lack of food and torture of the Japanese army. hole so that the confidentiality is maintained.

Although this hole can be completed, but have not been utilized properly, due to its knees trigger Japan to the Allied soldiers from two Army Fruit Atomic Allies imposed in the city of Nagasaki and Hiroshima on December 7 and 8 August 1945, and continues with the Republic of Indonesia on Independence diproklamirkannya August 17, 1945 by Soekarno - Hatta.

When this hole is quite crowded Japanese tourists visited by both Overseas and Archipelago and is a favorite tourist attraction in Bukittinggi and even West Sumatra.

Conditions in the tunnel
From the gate, we menurunbi stairs as much as 135 pieces, if the ladder is high - average 20 cm, thus the 135 steps means that we have come down as high as 27 M. if we compare again where we stand now with the existing road above us, has a height difference of about 5 M. of this calculation will know that the base hole ranging from 30 to 40 M from the surface. This depth is considered safe enough by Japan against the Allied air attacks
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