South Sumatra Province is situated on the eastern side of Bukit Barisan mountain range South Sumatra province is relatively flat, nevertheless fertile, as numerous rivers crisscross and meander through out the region. Palembang is its capital city and as the gateway to the province, lies right on the banks of the great Musi River, 60 km upstream and navigable by oceangoing vessels. No wonder that most major social and economic activities should center in Palembang and Musi River where the region's pride, Ampera Bridge, is found as well.
Interesting Places
Sriwijaya Site
Place of tourist attraction sites are located in Karang Anyar village in the district ie. West Ilir Palembang municipality. Place in've Officially opened by President Soeharto on December 22, 1994 with the laying of the replica back Kedukan Bukit inscription. The history of the inscription is telling two armies laksa Sriwijaya Wanua Srijayanasa build on the Saka year 606 (684 AD) at the foot of Mount Siguntang.
Lawang Agung Waterfall
Lawang Agung Waterfall is located in the Lawang Agung Lama village, Jarai sub district about 2 hours from Lahat city, south Sumatera. You can go there by car, motorcycle. A long the road you can see beautiful scenery, cool air, tea plantation, Dempo mountain and feeling decreased road conditions and little rocky. It is so fascinating. Arrived in this waterfall you can see water that so strong, pure water and cool air. It make this waterfall so wonderfull and you can't forget this event.
Lubuk Linggau
Lubuklinggau is Lahat town, gateway to Pasennah Highlands. Dotting this mountain plateau are carved megaliths, tombs, pillars and other stone ruins thought to date from date 100 A.D. These are considered the best examples of prehistoric stone sculpture in Indonesia. Oddly shaped rocks have been fashioned into figures of armed warriors riding elephants, wrestling buffaloes or fighting snake. There are dolmens, sanctuaries, colored painting, and other works of art in the area of volcanic Mount Dempo.
Sulap hill is located in the east south of Lubuk Linggau, and become one of nature tourism objects also as the center of recreation and resort with 68.593.18 hectares width. This area is stayed at 471 m on the sea level. There is an irrigation construction in this town, which built by the Dutch in 1941 for irrigation. This water irrigation is come from Kelingi River.
Kemaro Island
Kemaro Island is a river delta in musi, about 5 km to the downstream Ampera Bridge. On this island there is a monastery. In celebration of Cap Go Me for Chinese people Chinese people, including thousands who came from various cities and even from overseas visited the island to conduct Kemaro prayer or pilgrimage. This celebration lasts 2 - 3 days. Kemaro the island can also be seen at the Pertamina refinery and River Plaju Gerong and PT Pusri fertilizer plant next to the various activities on the river Musi.
Limas House
Plenty authentic traditional houses of Palembang people called Rumah Limas. Usually built in a very big size, this unique style of house is called Rumah Limas due to its ceiling; the architecture of the ceiling has the format of “limas” similar to pyramid but slightly different at the very peak.
Rumah Limas is built with a very, very strong wood material called Kayu Ulin and usually will last for a long time; but unfortunately it is often more expensive to build one compare to regular houses with bricks, thus, today there are not many new Rumah Limas built; those who still live in Rumah Limas are normally known as middle to upper class families.
Musi Lake
Musi River is both very broad as well as long, comparable to those found on the big island of Kalimantan, formerly Borneo. The river flows right through the city, cutting it in two halves called the Ulu bank and the Ilir bank and linked by a bridge of considerable size and length, called Ampera Bridge. If the visitors do not care to make an interesting or unique boat trip down the river, they could still take a walk halfway over the bridge to see the vast panorama surrounding them, rare at any other place in Indonesia.
Down below they will see unbelievable traffic of boats, big and small, crisscrossing water lines without accidents as if steered by the most able navigators. From the same spot both halves of the city are clearly visible as well. And if the times were right, sunrises and sunsets as witnessed from the bridge would be an unforgettable sight of beauty. Worthwhile noticing are the floating restaurants and shops on both sides of the river, and other curious scenes of daily habits of the city's inhabitants.
There is an annual event, which is held around the Independence Day, each 17th of August, and is known as Bidar Race in which boats measuring 24.5 m long and only 0,75 m wide compete. Each boat carries as many as 50 oarsmen.
Ampera Bridge
The bridge that spread above Musi River is becomes the main characteristic of Palembang city. It was built on 1962 - 1965. Ampera Bridge has 78m high of tower. However, the special feature of this bridge that it can be opened and closed, the mechanism is no longer working, whereas is fact, it is the only bridge in Indonesia with the open-and-closed mechanism. Now it is only history. The bridge has to be lifted up of the middle shares each time there every king sized ship, with height above nine meters, will pass by quickly. Both for going to downstream and also which going to the upstream.
Dempo Mountain
Mount Dempo is one of the natural tourism objects in Pagaralam. It is the highest peak in South Sumatra and might be reached directly from Palembang by car, after spending 6 hours more or less for about 295 kilometers. Grown in northern Sumatra (Indonesia) Highlands. The liquor tends to be light with a hint of body and meatiness. Dempo Volcano is located at Lahat Regency, South Sumatra Province while little part belongs to Muna Regency of Bengkulu Province. Geographically, it lies at 04° 02'' SL and 103° 08'' EL. The volcano has two peaks called Dempo and Merapi. The highest peak names Merapi with 3173 m high above sea level, while Dempo is about 3049 m. Dempo is a prominent 3173-m-high strata volcano that rises above the Pasumah Plain of SE Sumatra. Remnants of 7 craters are found at or near the summit, with volcanism migrating to the WNW with time. The historically active summit crater of Mount Dempo contains a 400-m-wide lake, located at the NW end of the crater complex.
Punti Kayu
This recently built recreational complex covers 50 hectares area, consist of four parts: an amusement park, a recreation park, a natural forest, and a man-made lake. In this complex are to be found a children's playground, a cultural park, a souvenirs shop, restaurants and an information booth. Because of its proximity to the capital and easy accessibility, this complex actually caters mainly to the local inhabitants of Palembang city, however, international tourists may enjoy passing a calm day here to watch urbanites amuse themself.
Palembang Museum
The state museum is relatively new building and was erected in 1977 only; however, its collection of around 2000 relics and antiquities originating from the province would make a real treat for the visitors who would come here. We can see ancient household articles, utensils, looms, hunting tools, a bridal room and some preserved animals of the region.
One of museum in Palembang city is Museum of Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II. It was used as the palace of Sultan. It has an imposing semi circular staircase and was built by the Dutch in 1823, which located near Musi River. Another museum is Balaputra Dewa Museum which located 5,5 km from the center of Palembang.
Curup Tenang Waterfall
It is the highest waterfall in South Sumatra, located near Bedegung village in Tanjung Agung district, about 56 kilometers South of Muara Enim Regency. Rich in the number of small as well as big rivers flowing through this province, waterfalls of various sizes come with them too. Tenang_ waterfall where the water smashes down from 90 meters height into a deep pool and further downstream in a strong current. It can reach by public transportation and takes 2 hours from Palembang, however, less by private car. The Muara Enim regency, two hours from Palembang, is a land of rivers and waterfalls.
Ranau Lake
Ranau Lake is located in Banding Agung district, 125 Km from Baturaja, the capital of Oku Regency. Ranau is an 8 x 13 km caldera partially filled by the crescent-shaped Ranau Lake. It is surrounded by hills and has mount Seminung background. Beneath the Mount Seminung, there is a source of natural warm water. A morphologically young post-caldera strata volcano, Mount Semuning, was constructed within the SE side of the caldera to a height of more than 1600 m above the caldera lake surface.
For most people, Ranau Lake is the climax of a visit to the western highlands of South Sumatra. This blinking Crater Lake is located in the old caldera of Mount Seminung (1340 meters), an active volcano on the border of Lampung province. It's 16 km long and 9 km wide, and has a depth of 300 meters. The climate in these highlands is nice cool and the remote location offers wealthy vegetation, crystal clear water and beautiful trips to a nearby fall, hot source and an island in the lake. However the lake is very popular among the local population in the weekends, it's not spoiled by tourism yet.
Putri Cave
The cave is situated at the edge of Padang Windu Village, Pengandonan district, about 35 Km from Baturaja. It is 156 m long and 8-20 m wide. The maximum height is 20 m. There are many stalactites and stalagmites and a stream in the cave, which empties into Ogan River. The rocks can be very slippery once in a while, so good shoes with a good profile are not to be forgotten. Guides with lights and torches guide the visitors and give detailed information (mostly in Indonesian) about legends, which are strongly connected, to the caves. The main cave is about 150 meters long; the widest point is about 15 to 20 meters. In some places the ceiling is 12 meters high, on other places only 1,5 meters. The ceiling is scattered with hundreds of bats; when light disturbs them, they will fly out all together and just miss the visitors. To enter the deeper parts of the caves you have to be slender enough to pass very narrow points. Legendary stories tell about a king which had his palace in this cave, and every room has it's own story. The stala.
Serelo hill
Serelo is a hill that located about 20 km from Lahat city. Beneath the hill, there is a special complex for taming, training and educating elephant. There are about 25 elephant, which have been trained to show off some attractions to the visitor/ tourist.
Sambilangan National Park
In the eastern part of the region there is a 45.000 square hectares Sembilang Wildlife Reserve. Sembilang National Park was setup in 2003 in southeastern Sumatra. Over 350,000 hectares of peat swamp, freshwater swamp and mangroves, the park is host to a few critically endangered Sumatran tigers. Sembilang is such a paradise for various kinds of protected birds like lesser adjutant stork, milky stork, spot billed pelican, wild duck, eagle, hornbill, etc. There are also two kinds of Sumatra crocodile, i.e. crocodilus porosus and tomistoma slegeli. In Sembilang river there also lives irrawadi dolphins and humpback dolphins.
Napal Licin Cave
Napal Licin is a cave of stalactites and stalagmites. To visit the place we have to take boat to upstream Rawas River. It is a new developing tourism object in Musi Rawas. This is the new tourism object for the visitor who came to Musi Rawas.
If we interested to make an adventure, try to visit Kerinci Seblat National Park. There are many kind of flora and fauna there, that cannot found in other area. We can find Rafflesia flower and also hundreds of birds, such as; crested parrot, and the other. Foods
Tekwan
This is typical Tekwan Meatball Palembang. Meatball is a typical Indonesian food and can be found in all parts of Indonesia, so digemarinya Meatball has many flavor variations. To which of Kilkenny has the distinction that is made from fish that berkuah Tenggiri shrimp broth. Served with vermicelli, sliced bengkoang, a sprinkling of fried onions, a sprinkling of leaves sledri and given little food vinegar and soy sauce.
Kacang Merah Ice
Red Bean Ice usual at present as a cooling refreshment from the spicy foods like Pempek Palembang, Lenggang, Tekwan and Models. Ice is very easy to make because only a mixture of red bean stew ditambakan sugar syrup, slices of jackfruit, sweetened condensed milk, sweet basil or grass jelly is sometimes added. Shavings and served with ice cubes.
Pempek
Pempek is unifying people of Palembang food with Chinese. This recipe is a concoction of local communities by mixing starch with a lot of fish meat obtained Musi river, the two ingredients are then given a little salt and boil then preserved. If you’d like presented then fried and given a spicy sauce called cuko.
Lempok
Lempok is lunkhead with durian material which is a mainstay of traditional processed food society of South Sumatra. Dodoo dried durian is processed from durian fruit. Distinctive taste and smell are very rarely found in other areas in Indonesia.
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