November 2, 2017

a brief description of my hometown - Bengkulu

     Hi all, in this opportunity I will explain about my hometown in Bengkulu City, on the Sumatra island. Sumatra Island is famous for its flora and fauna, everything is on Bengkulu city. Have you ever watched drama of “ seven human of tigers” ? The drama was lifted from a legend story in Curup, and Curup is still same province as my hometown. As well as with the fauna, corpse flower and Rafflesia flower in Bengkulu is a legendary plant in Indonesia even in the world. although the smell of the corpse flower is very bad, its very rotten.

Not only that, and you surely know who is Soekarno, he was once taken to the city of Bengkulu, and until now the house of Soekarno in Bengkulu still exist and become one of the most famous tourist attractions in Bengkulu. Not just the house of Soekarno, but there is also the Fatmawati House, Fatmawati is wife of Sukarno. Besides of traditional houses, Bengkulu also has a very interesting beach, its name is a long beach. The beach was very long as far as the eye could see. Many things you can do in beach, but its not recommended to swim there.  And There is a Marlborough castle of English relics, if we see the marlborough fort from above, then the castle will be shaped like a frog.

Food in my hometown is also no less interesting than the tourist attractions, and two foods I recommend for you to try are Pendap and Tempuyak. Pendap is made from fish mixed with other spices, then cooked with taro leaves. And tempoyak is a food made from durian fermentation, it feels a bit sour, however tempoyak become one of the favorite in there.. in my hometown in Bengkulu .. even in Sumatra.

There is one event in Bengkulu that I really like, the name of the event is Tabot. Tabot is a traditional ceremony of the people of Bengkulu held aimed to commemorate the story of the heroic and death of the grandson of Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. The event lasted for ten days, from the date of one untill ten of Muharram. The event takes place every year, and become one tourist destination, because many foods, people selling clothes,  many perfomances, and the release of a tutle boy, and other event.

Thank you for reading, I hope you have time to vacation to Bengkulu, and I will gladly accompany you on vacation there. I will show that Indonesia has Bengkulu, and Indonesian people should be proud of Bengkulu.

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