Bukittinggi Things to Do

This is the name given to the Minang house and take a tour from Bukittinggi to see them. The number of horns (extensions to the house)signify how many daughters the husband has and the house will get bigger as the family increases.

Hi.. if you're looking for activities like hiking, mountain climbing and love to see natural scenery when you're visiting bukit tinggi, west Sumatra, Indonesia you can contact me :) .. here are some activities that you can do during your holiday..
if you like scenery then you can enjoy the tour to minangkabau, lake maninjau and harau valley.. but if you love hiking, you can try it at siberut island, maninjau and rafflesia.. i know lots of people out there like to do mountain climbing.. here in west sumatra we have the best mountain for you to enjoy like merapi mountain, singgalang mountain and kerici mountain.. if you're interested to do all these activities, book your flight ticket now to Padang, west Sumatra and contact me for the info... have a nice holiday :)

City was fullybooked, found a tourguide Roni P. , roni_orchid@hotmail.com, who helped and found a nice cheap - hotel Orchid and offered his tours in motocicle. I had a chance to try that for first time and was very interesting driving to places normal tours do not get! Seing the impressive flying foxes at 6 pm at the top of the cannion was a surprize and a different experience!

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it call Jam Gadang similar with big clock in Bukittinggi. It located nearby Pasar Atas and Goa jepang.
A center of attraction is the town's clock-tower, topped with a horn- shaped roof and referred to by the people as Jam Gadang. It overlooks the market square and the city's magnificent surroundings.

there are so many things you can do around Bukittinggi! In cafe Bedudal we found a guide who had many suggestions and was very helpful - also if we wanted to do things on our own without a guide. His name is Fikar. Even by just browsing through his website you get so many reasons for going to Bukittinggi!

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Inside PANORAMA PARK we can find the Cave which was built in Japanese Occupation Era in 1942 to 1945, it was a DUNGEON built by Javanese peoples which are recruit by Japanese army in a work force and said that thousand peoples died in built this cave. JAPAN GOVERNMENT was very much concern to the cave and its history, then DONATED a grant aid for renovation this historical site by the local government and now become as a memorial site of world war second and Japanese army occupation

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PANORAMA PARK is a memorial Park in line with the history of Japan Occupation in Indonesia during 1942 to 1945 in which times Japan draw thousand peoples from Java island to be a slave and force to work to built a cave near Ngarai Sianok. JAPAN Government was very much concern to the history of this cave, recognized that many peoples died for this CAVE project, to the memory of that peoples, Under the JAPAN GOVERNMENT DONATION, the local government then built this memorial park on the beautiful landscape of Bukit Tinggi and Ngarai Sianok

The collection of the Animals in the BukitTinggi Zoo is only a few, A flock of Deer, a Camels, an Elephants and another preservative died animals.The other things worth of visits ae, the Museum at Rumah Adat BAANJUNG, the landscape and nice view of BukitTinggi and its surrounding seen from Fort DE COCK