Indonesia West Sumatra Trip. Day 3: Bukittinggi

This post gonna be short since more than half of the day allocated to visit Buya Hamka's Birthplace Museum, the prominent Muslim scholar in Malay archipelago.

Located about 36 km to the west of the city center, we passing through 44 hairpin corners heading to Lake Maninjau. Known as Lekok 44 by local, offers stunning view of the lake. We stopped for coffee at one of small shop.

The sharp corners ended once we entered Maninjau small town by the lake. Buya Hamka's museum was about 15 minutes from the town.

Sarapan dulu...

Making a living in the early morning

Enjoying the view...

... splendid!!

Stopped for teh tarik

One of the Lekok 44.. nope, I didn't count

The root place of Minangkabau

Lake Maninjau as the background

We were given briefing by one of the Buya Hamka's descendent. Things used by the late were displayed in this house among things that caught our attention were typewriter and his books. He was prominent Muslim scholar by his book, Tafsir Al-Azhar.

His real name is Haji Abdul Karim Majid

Nice!

The tomb of Buya Hamka

After lunch, we heading back to the town and went for shopping at Pasar Atas. We soothed our throat with cendol, and get on the bites of several local delicacies. In the late evening, we roamed around the city before calling the day.

On the way back to the town, we came across traditional wedding ceremony

Local delicacies shop

The famous kolbu & cendol labu

Roaming the downtown for look-see

Searching for nite-bites

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