Traveling to Lampung and Palembang

Lampung
Although Bali is still the most desired tourism destination for domestic and foreign tourist, there are many other tourism destination offering amazing and unforgetable experiences. Some of them are Traveling to Lampung and Palembang.

Lampung is located on the hill with an ocean panorama in the Sumatra Island. It will be the appropiate destination for people from Jakarta who look for a relaxing weekend. Lampung is a city with uncrowded highways, so that you will not be tired when you’re traveling there.

Lampung has a long history before it is as what we see now. Lampung used to be a part of Palembang region. Later on 1905 – 1942, it was developed as a colonial region by the Dutch government. The history continued until Lampung became the capital of the province. The capital was the integration of two old town called Teluk Belitung and Tanjung Karang. Transportation and accomodation available in this city is good enough, including the buses, train, and shopping centers.

There’s a commomerade monument of Mt. Krakatau eruption located in Dipangga Park at Teluk Belitung. This monument is made of sea sign weighed about half of ton. This sign was thorwn away because of the tsunami wave caused by the Mt. Krakatau eruption in 1883.

Lampung holds many potentials that many bussinessmen interested to spread their wings to this province. For example. Garuda airlines opens new rutes for domestic and regional destinations. Garuda will support these new rutes with brand new Boeing 737 NG airlines. S0me of the tourism objects in Lampung are Pasir Putih and Kalianda Beach.

Pasir Putih is located at 16km to the south of Bandar Lampung city. With the view of Lampung golf, you can spend a great vacation there. While Kalianda is a beach at 30km away of Bakauheni harbour. For those who seek for a relaxed and peaceful place, Kalianda beach is the right destination. Kalianda is also a peaceful town with the view of Lampung gulf and Mt. Rajabasa. With the developed tourism potentials, your vacation is likely to be the unforgetable one.

Lampung also offers the tourist a variety of souvenirs. For those who love traditional handycraft, there are beautiful wall decorations and waved cloth that can be bought for the loved ones. Or if you love culiner, you can buy variety of delicious snacks to be taken home. If you happen to visit Lampung on around November to February, you will find many local people selling durian along the street witha quite cheap price.

Palembang
Palembang as the capital of south Sumatra province has a closely related history with Lampung. One piece of history that connected Lampung and Palembang is the developing train is history in Sumatra Island.

Eventhough the train in Sumatra is not as old as in Java, that had been built since 1864, the train in Sumatra held on importance role during the Dutch invansion. Unlike the train in Java, that’s used for material transportation such as harvest and mining materials.

Hindie – Dutch Government started to get interested in building the trail’s train since November 1905. The goverenment relocated 115 families from Karang Anyar, Kebumen, Purworedjo (Central Java( to Gedong Tataan, Lampung. Then the new region was named Bagelen.

Some of the tourism objects that you can visit in South Sumatra Province is Mt. Dempo that’s located in Lahat region. It is the highest mountain in South Sumatra. It takes about 6 hours to go to Mt. Dempo from Palembang. Another object in Palembang is Ranau Lake that’s located in Valleys, and it becomes one of the tourism icon there. And don’t forget to try Pempek (popular traditional food in Palembang) when you’re visiting Palembang.