Padang, West Sumatera

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Padang is the capital city of West Sumatera province, lies on the western coast of Sumatera island in Indonesia. West Sumatera is the home for the Minangkabau people, well known as great treaders all around Indonesia, and Mentawai people. Total area of West Sumatera is 42,297.30 km² and Padang itself is 694.96 km². Nasi Padang and Rendang are the most famous cuisine from this area, and currently already wide spreadth all over the world.

Padang and West Sumatera offer many tourist attractions as the geographic conditions are located between highlands and the ocean. Therefore, there are tropical forests, mountains, volcanos, lakes, valleys, rivers & waterfalls in the highlands, the fauna and flora, and the beaches.

As they have a lot of great natural attractions, geographical condition that lies on a belt of volcanic and seismic activity known as the "Pacific Ring of Fire," gives consequence of potentials of natural disasters. Earthquakes, landslides, volcano eruption, and tsunami should be aware of. Most recent evidence was the 7.9 in Richter scale earthquakes on 30th September 2009. Not to be feared of, but as a lesson learnt for all of us to be wiser and give more awareness to our environment.

SAVE THE EARTH, OUR ONE ONLY EARTH. 


PLACES OF INTERESTS

TAPLAU (TAPI LAUIK/PADANG BEACH)

Padang is a coastal city, the west side of city is faced directly to Indian Ocean. Taplau is acronym from Tapi-Lauik means coast/sea front. The beach is the favorite place for local people to be visited due to the location which is just at the side of Padang, especially at sunset till night. There are many food stalls provide visitor with hot snacks and drinks.

Padang, West Sumatera

Singapore

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Why Singapore?
After almost 26 years old, finally can write something. Thought it will be nice to use some files that are almost fully loaded in hard disk, just sitting there after been used. They might be useful for someone who is looking for the reference where and how to travel to.

Don't wanna be called as a perfectionist, I used to plan my travel, especially for a new place I've never been there. First thing should be the map, it is very essential, though you think you can just simply sit at the rear seat of a cab and ask the cab driver to drive you to any place. Having a map means that you have your basic plan, a base to start, a base for you to put any objective or direction. At least it can be used as a universal way to communicate with a taxi driver in any language.

Sorting every point of interest is the next step. With a limited time to stay at one place, you have to decide the most interesting places you wanna be. Based on that, you can have your best route to travel, the effective route within a short time. For assistance, Google Map can be relied on.

Booking the ticket, either for transportation or accomodation, can be done next. Thus, you have your own travel itinerary.

So, why Singapore?
No reason actually, I've just been there at my last travel.

PLACES OF INTERESTS

MERLION PARK & ESPLANADE

Singapore