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| It was put on a church wall. |
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| Fishing? |
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| It just looks cool to me... |
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| They also have tempe in Sydney... |
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| If you speak Javanese you know what's funny with this sign. |
I studied French when I was in high school and college and I kindof forget most of it, so I thought I should practice it. It was pretty hard writing this but my friend helped me proofread it so here it goes :D.
Quelques Coins de Semarang
Semarang est une des grandes villes en Indonésie. Elle se trouve dans le centre du Java. Dans le collonialism d'Hollandaise, on l'appellait "Het Venetie van Java," ou le Venise du Java, parce qu’elle a eu beaucoup des canals comme Venise en Italie.
Si vous allez à
Comme Paris a le quartier Latin,
L’autre endroit que vous devez voir c’est le Petit Holland dans le quartier Vieille Ville. Il y a beaucoup de vieux bâtiments. Le plus célèbre c’est l’église Blenduk qui a été construit en 1753.
Ces sont les images des endroits dans Semarang.
Le monument de la jeunesse, devant le Lawang Sewu
Le Sam Poo Kong, le plus grande temple en Semarang
L’église Blenduk
Le Lawang Sewu, vieux et effrayant
Yippee!! I finally managed to go on vacation!! I went to Karimunjawa island last weekend (December 22nd-24th, 2007) with Nining, Mbak Yuli, Ahmed, Yudi, and Hatta. It was really awesome (but not my sea sick part when we got back to Semarang of course..haha). We left for Karimunjawa from Semarang port, Tanjung Emas, by KMC Kartini (a speed boat). It was a nice trip, but I spent most of my time sleeping...haha. Terrible, but I didn't want to get sick in the boat, heheh.You can't say you have visited Karimunjawa if you don't try snorkeling and see the coral reef. So I tried though I couldn't even swim, hahah. I was terrible in the water, but it was fun though. You could also take a glass bottom boat to see the underwater coral reef and other marine life. It looked really awesome! I kept looking for Spongebob and friends, hahah. It was raining when we were on the boat and did the snorkeling thing, but the water was pretty warm when we swam, so it wasn't that bad. Then we went to this shark breeding or hatchery (or whatever the name is), played with the sharks some (and they were all tame, at least no one got bitten, haha). I didn't swim with the sharks though, but I would surely love to next time. Other thing we did was walking on the beach.. something like that. I looked for hermit crabs but I didn't find any. But I did get some cool shells, heheh.
We should have got back to Semarang on Sunday 23rd, but the wind was too strong and the weather was so bad that the boat were not allowed to sail (wave was 5 meters high they said). So we decided to go back to the homestay and spent one more night there. I think in May-August the weather is good, so it will be a good time to visit. Sun shines and all that.
I think there are still more to explore in the Karimunjawa islands. I only visited two of them. The biggest ones I think. Still would like to see the other spots of course. There has to be Advanced Karimunjawa, hahaha. If I even failed in this introduction course I wouldn't mind repeating it another time...hahahah.
Here are some pictures I took. Better pictures are from my friends' camera, but they haven't uploaded them. Will upload some more later.
PS: I have added some pictures from Ahmed and Nining's camera.
Huts on the sea
Stranded
Hail to the sea, Nining
On becak
White sand
Poker night
I went to Kendal (a city near Semarang) with my sister, uncle, and cousin to see these waterfalls. The first one, Curug Sewu (curug = waterfall, sewu = 1000, so 1000 waterfalls?? doesn't make sense after you see the place, hahah), wasn't so cool. The water looked muddy so we didn't go down to see it. Then we went to the other place, in Gonoharjo. There was this hot spring and then you could see waterfalls if you would hike. I had to struggle (plus I was hungry) to get to the top just to see the small waterfall..haha. I wanted to give up before getting there, but it didn't seem worth it because it was already too far to go down. Well, at least I did some exercise...hahaha. Here are the pictures:
This tree was near the hot spring. No reason for taking this picture. It just looked huge and cool.
The path to achievement...heheh..
What you see in the video is the sulphuric smoke in Gedong Songo (literally means "nine buildings") temple, Bandungan, Semarang, Indonesia. If you have never been to Gedong Songo yet, that is one of the cool things you can see there. I think the video doesn't look good (I'm an amateur :P), better see the real thing, haha.
Here are some pictures of the temples:
