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| Padang Panjang | ||
| province | Sumatera Barat | |
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| Residents | 52.422 (2017) | |
| height | 824 m | |
| Tourist info web | pandangpanjangkota.go.id | |
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Padang Panjang(Yes how: ڤادڠ ڤنجڠ) is a city on the plateau of West Sumatra. It is located between the Mount Marapi and Mount Singgalang volcanoes. Padang Panjang has about 40,000 residents.
background
getting there
By plane
The closest airport is the Bandara Internasional Minangkabau Airport 20 km north of Padang. It is served by: Air Asia, Batavia, Fireflyz, Garuda, Lion Air, Mandala Air, Sriwijaya Air and Tiger Airways. If you want to go directly from the airport to Padang Panjang and Bukittinggi, you can take any bus towards the capital and then get off at a road bridge after about 2 km and change to the minibuses towards the highlands.
In the street
Padang Panjang is 19 km from Bukittinggi and 89 km from the provincial capital Padang. The main road through Padang Panjang connects Padang on the coast with the highland town of Bukittinggi. There are regular buses on this route. From Padang the trip costs 15,000 Indonesian rupees, from Bukittinggi 5000 IDR to Padang Panjang.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
- Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia - STSI, Jalan Bundo Kanduang 35, near the bus terminal on the soccer field. Tel.: 62 (0)752 82077. Conservatory of traditional Indonesian arts. This art school is known for cultivating the traditional music and dance forms of the Minangkabau in addition to modern art forms such as theater and film. There is an auditorium where performances by the students take place at irregular intervals. In addition, traditional music and dance events take place in the city as well as in Bukuttinggi. You have to inquire about the current events.Open: Mon - Thu 8 a.m. - 3 p.m., Fri 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
- Pusat Dokumentasi dan Informasi Kebudayaan Minangkabau - PDIKM. Documentation and information center for Minangkabau culture. It is located a little outside the town on the road to Padang (address: Padang Sarai Slaiang Bawah, Padang Panjang). This center collects and represents the cultural life of the Minangkabau. It contains a very interesting collection of historical photographs, a library and a collection of costumes. The buildings of the information center are built in the old Minangkabau architecture style and are surrounded by a park that imitates the terrace culture. Particularly noticeable about the Minangkabau houses, in addition to the wonderful colored wood carvings on the outer walls, are the roofs that tower into the sky at each end (they are supposed to represent buffalo horns). Typically three or four generations of a family lived in these houses. Outside the big house, there are smaller rice granaries in the same traditional style.
accommodation
- Hasiba, Jl. KH.Ahmad Dahlan No. 91. Tel.: 62 (0)752 82434.
- Singgalang Indah, Jl. Soekarno Hatta No. 19th. Tel.: 62 (0)752 82213. Well cared for, with hot water.
- Bungalow Indah, Jl. Jend. A. Yani No. 8th. Tel.: 62 (0)752 485420.
Practical advice
- Dinas Porbudpar, Comp. OW Minangkabau Village, Padang Psnjsng. Tel.: 62 (0)752 84164. Tourist office.
- post, Jl. Soekarno Hatta No. 1.
trips
- Visit to Pariangan village. Legend has it that the first ancestors who descended from the Marapi volcano settled in this village on the road from Padang Panjang to Batusangkar. At Pariangan there is a rice field called 'sawah gadang setamping baniah' (the great rice field of the first seed), which according to tradition was the first cultivated rice field in Western Sumatra. All rice in the region is said to have come from a grain of rice in this field.
- Train ride to Sawahlunto. Every Sunday at 8.30 a.m. in Padang Panjang, an association of railway enthusiasts starts a train ride with two old 2nd class wagons and one 1st class wagon to the mining town of Sawahlunto. The journey goes through a beautiful landscape past Lake Danau Singkarak. The trip takes 3 hours. You then have about 3 hours to visit Sawahlunto with its railway and coal museum. The return journey is at 2.30 p.m. The trip in the more entertaining 2nd class costs 50,000 Rp., Return trip 100,000 Rp.
Web links
- http://www.padangpanjangkota.go.id/ - Padang Panjang official website
