Muara Takus Temple

Muara Takus Temple is a Buddhist temple site is located in the village of Muara Takus, District XIII Koto, Kampar regency, Riau, Indonesia. This site is approximately 135 kilometers from the city of Pekanbaru.

Muara Takus Temple Site is surrounded by a wall measuring 74 x 74 meters, made ​​of white stone wall to the height ± 80 cm, outside their area of land there is also a wall measuring 1.5 x 1.5 kilometers, surrounded this complex sampal Right to the Kampar River. Inside the complex there are several temples called Candi sulung /tua, Candi Bungsu, Mahligai Stupa and Palangka.

Archaeological experts have not been able to determine exactly when the temple site was established. Some say the fourth century, some say the seventh century, nineteenth century and even in the eleventh century. But this temple is considered to have been there in the heyday of Srivijaya, so that some historians consider this region is one of the central government of the kingdom of Srivijaya.

In 2009 Temple Barelang nominated to become one of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Muara Takus Temple is the oldest temple sites in Sumatra, was the only site in the form of heritage temples in Riau. This Buddhist temple is a proof that Buddhism once flourished in this region.

Ngarai Sianok

Sianok Canyon or Ngarai Sianok is a steep valley (cliff) is located in the border town of Bukittinggi, the IV Koto district, Agam regency, West Sumatra. The valley is long and winding as the southern border town of Koto Gadang canyon to the villages Sianok Anam Tribe, and ended in the district Palupuh. Sianok canyon has beautiful views and also one of the flagship attractions province.

Sianok rod can now be forded by the use of canoes and kayaks are disaranai by a water sports organization "Qurays". The route taken is from the villages to oblong Sitingkai Lambah Palupuh villages for about 3.5 hours. At the edges still found many rare plants such as rafflesia and medicinal plants. Fauna encountered such long-tailed monkey, gibbon, mitered, deer, wild boar, leopard, and tapir.

Japan Hole of Bukittinggi

Japan Hole of Bukittinggi is one of the historical attractions in the city of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Japan is a tunnel hole (bunker) the protection of the Japanese occupation forces built around the year 1942 for defense.

Earlier, Japan's Hole was built as a storage supplies and equipment of war the Japanese army, with a long tunnel which reaches 1400 m and winding and has a width of about 2 meters. There are a number of special rooms in this tunnel, among them the space reconnaissance, ambush rooms, prisons, and the armory.

In addition to its strategic location in the city that was once a center of government in Central Sumatra, ground into the tunnel wall is a type of soil when mixed with water will be more sturdy. Even the earthquake that shook West Sumatra in 2009 and not much damage the structure of the tunnel.

An estimated tens to hundreds of thousands of forced labor or romusha deployed from the island of Java, Sulawesi and Kalimantan to dig this tunnel. The selection of workers from outside the region is a Japanese colonial strategy to maintain the confidentiality of this mega project. From the United Kingdom alone workforce deployed in defense of them to work on the tunnel in London and the island of Biak.

The Root Bridge

The root bridge is a bridge formed of two interlacing roots of trees that grow opposite and extends over stem the flow shadow shadow in the district, the South Coast district, West Sumatra. Local people call it Titian Aka (Minang language), and according to them this bridge has been there for hundreds of years ago.

Jam Gadang ( Clock Tower )

Clock Tower is named for Big Ben clock tower similar to that located in the center of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. This clock has a clock tower with a large size on four sides so called the Clock Tower, which when translated from Minang into the Indonesian language it means "jam besar".

Aside from being a marker of central town of Bukittinggi, the Clock Tower has also been used as a tourist attraction with the construction of the park around the tower at this. The park is a public interaction space either on weekdays or on holidays.

So the events of a general nature are usually organized around the park near the clock tower, one of which is the point of commencement of Stage 4 Tour de Singkarak 2011.

Clock Tower has a ground-plan area of ​​13 x 4 meters. The inside of the clock tower at 26 meters it consists of several levels, where the top level is a storage area pendulum. The pendulum had broken and had to be replaced by an earthquake in 2007.

There are 4 hours each with a diameter of 80 cm at the Clock Tower, where machine-hour clock and the surface is located at one level below the top level. Clock is shipped directly from Rotterdam, Netherlands via the Gulf ports Bayur and mechanically driven by a machine that only made ​​2 units in the world, the Clock Tower itself and Big Ben in London, England.

Clock Tower was built without the use of iron peyangga and mortar. Only mixtures of lime, egg white, and white sand. The uniqueness of the Clock Tower itself is the mistake of writing the Roman numeral four (IV) on each day is written "IIII". Kesahalan writing is also common in parts of the world, like the number 9 written "VIIII" (supposedly IX) or the number 28 is written "XXIIX" (should XXVIII).

Bung Hatta Palace

Bung Hatta Palace or Tri Arga of State House is located in center town of Kota Bukittinggi park exactly in front of the Clock Tower / Jam Gadang. Formerly, in 1946 the building was in use as the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia first, Drs. Mohammad Hatta, and In 1947 the building was made ​​as a Central Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia.

Now, name the building was replaced by Bung Hatta Palace Building to commemorate the services of Mohammad Hatta proclaimed Indonesia.

Pagaruyung Palace

Istano Basa is better known as the Palace Pagaruyung, is a palace located in the district of the Tanjung Emas, the city Batusangkar, Tanah Datar regency, West Sumatra. This palace is the famous cultural tourism in West Sumatra.

Istano Basa / Palace Pagaruyung that stands now is actually a replica of the original. Native Istano Basa is located on a hill Batu Patah and burned down in a bloody riot in 1804. The palace was later rebuilt but burned again in 1966.

Pagaruyung Palace rebuilding process is done by laying 'tunggak tuo' (main pillar) on December 27, 1976 by ​​the then Governor of West Sumatra, Harun Zain. The new building footprint is not established in the old palace, but at a new location to the south. In the late 1970s, the palace has been able to be visited by the public.

Sawahlunto House Cultural Center

Sawahlunto House Cultural Center is a building located on 4th Ahmad Yani Street of Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, Indonesia. This building was built in 1910 under the name "Gluck Auf" and has an area of ​​870 square meters. This building was formerly serves as a meeting hall (Societeit).

Where mining colonial government officials gathered to entertain themselves. In addition, this building is also called the House Ball, because on one side of the building is used as a place to play sports bowling and billiards to the Dutch authorities in Sawahlunto at the time.

Singkarak Lake

Singkarak Lake is a lake that stretches across two counties in the province of West Sumatra, Indonesia, the regencies Solok and Tanah Datar regency.
This lake has an area of ​​107,8 km² and is the second largest lake on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. This lake is upstream Batang Ombilin. But most of the lake water is passed through a tunnel through the Bukit Barisan to the Batang Anai to move the Singkarak hydroelectric power generator in the near Lubuk Alung, Pariaman District.

Singkarak Lake is located at the geographical coordinates of 0, 36 degrees South Latitude (LS) and 100.3 east longitude (BT) with a height of 363.5 meters above sea level (masl). Water surface area of Lake Singkarak reached 11 200 hectares with a maximum length of 20 kilometers and 6.5 kilometers wide and a depth of 268 meters.

The lake has an area of water flow along the 1076 kilometer with rainfall 82 to 252 melimeter per month.

de Kock Fort

Fort de Kock is the Dutch fort that stands in the city of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

The fort was founded by Captain Bouer in 1825 at the Baron Hendrik Merkus de Kock as a commander of Der Troepen and Deputy Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, that's why the fort was known as the Fort Fort De Kock.

The fortress is situated on the Mount Jirek is used by the Dutch Army as a stronghold of the onslaught of the people of Minangkabau, especially since the outbreak of Padri War in 1821-1837. Around the fort there are the guns of ancient period to the 19th century. In the ensuing years, it grew around the fort is also a town called Fort de Kock, now New York City.

Samosir Island

Samosir Island is a volcanic island in the middle of Lake Toba in North Sumatra province. An island within an island with an altitude of 1,000 meters above sea level making the island into an island that attract the tourists.

Tuktuk is the concentration of tourists in the island. Of Parapat, Tuktuk can be connected with the ferry crossing. In addition to water transport, Samosir Island can also be reached by road via Pangururan as the place where the island of Sumatra Samosir and touch.

Samosir island itself is located in the new district Naidoo expanded in 2003 from the former District Toba-Samosir.

On this island there are also two small lakes as a tourist area that is Danau Sidihoni and Aek Natonang Lake who got the nickname "the lake on the lake".

Mount Gundaling Sinabung

Mount Gundaling Sinabung is a hill in Berastagi, Karo regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Gundaling is a tourist attraction in Berastagi. Gundaling located at 1575 meters above sea level. In Gundaling can see Mount Sibayak and Sinabung.

Maimun Palace

Maimun Palace is one of the iconic city of Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, is located in the village Talbot, Medan Maimun district.

Designed by Italian architect and built by the Sultan of Deli, Makmun Al Rasyid Perkasa Alamsyah in 1888, Maimun Palace has an area of ​​2772 m2 and 30 rooms.

Maimun Palace into a tourist destination not only because of old age, but also a unique interior design, combines elements of Malay cultural heritage, with a style of Islam, Spain, India and Italy, but unfortunately keadaanya less neglected now. If we pass this place in the afternoon, we could even see kids playing soccer in the courtyard of this palace.