My Hometown

A Beauty Hometown in Padang

My hometown is Padang. Padang is the capital city of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is located on the western coast of Sumatra. Padang has an area of 694, 96 square kilometers, and Padang has a population of over 833.000 people at the 2010 census. Commonly human in Padang known with Mnangkabau society, so many kind of culture in Padang, each region has different culture with other region. Minangkabau society use minang language as local language.

Padang has some tourism objects, like Padang Beach (known as taplau) which located on Samudra Street until Purus. People can see the beauty of sunset and find so many kinds of beach can be found in Padang. Tourists also can visit Bungus bay. It is located in South of Padang, suitable place for boating and swimming, they would feel enjoy there. Recently, often earthquake happen and there are so many issues say that will happened big earthquake and tsunami in Padang. That is way so many tourists are afraid to visit Padang. Earthquake is not a reason for tourists not visit beauty of nature of Padang. So, do not afraid and confused to visit Padang just because issue of earthquake.

Padang has a museum. This museum has located inside Melati Park. The museum known with name is Adityawarman Museum. People get information about the history and culture of the local minangkabau ethnic group there, it is a style building of Padang, and also have to opportunity to see horse cart (the position under of rumah gadang), and few old planes (the position in around park).

In Padang there are so manykind of special food. Minangkabau people usually call Padang cuisine. The food that famous in Padang are rending (rending is spicy meat), dendeng balado (dendeng balado is spicy meat, the meat and the chili’s are fried), some kinds of curry (pangek padeh curry, asam padeh curry, etc), palai bada (mix of fish, grater coconut, and kind of some spices). Padang also has special soup known as Soto Padang. Soto Padang is a kind of meat soup and chicken soup. In the evening, sate is good menu, because sate Padang is very delicious.

Finally, West Sumatra has an airport has located in Padang Pariaman. The airport name is BIM (international Minangkabau Airport). If tourists had plan to stay in Padang, they can choose one of so many hotels in Padang. There are some hotels located not far from tourist spot, you can go on foot, by crosstown bus, horse cart, or ojek. Be careful with your stuff, because Padang is not a safe city.

That is all information about Padang. I hope you will be interested in visiting Padang, and have fun.