Jam Gadang
A big Clock which famous which “Jam Gadang” is allocated at the centre of Bukittinggi town. It’s located in the Sabai Nan Aluih Park, in front of Tri Arga Palace. It’s being s symbol of Bukittinggi.
It was built at 1926 by Jazid, a town architect, with his partner Sutan Gigi Ameh. At the time, Rookmaker as a town secretary got the present a big clock from the Queen of Dutch. He asked the town architect to build a tower where the big clock would be put. The first stone of that building was layed down by the eldest son of Rookmaker . The building spent about F 3000.
At the beginning when the tower has been finished, the roof was formed like a dome with a cock statue on the top of it. The cock it self indicated that the people didn’t know how to see the time. The way to know the time is just by hearing the cock crow in the morning. Then, the roof of that tower was changed like trapezoid when the japanesse colonized Indonesia. Later, the roof has been change like a buffalo horn after getting freedom and proclaim the Indonesian Independence of civilizer. A buffalo horn is a symbol of minangkabau culture in West Sumatera.
Kinantan Zoo and Moseum
Kinantan Museum and Zoo was estabilished at 1929. Nowadays, we can find many kinds of animal in the zoo. Many tourists visit the place everyday while the students prefer to come on the weekend to relex them selves with ther family.
In the midle of the zoo, there is customary house of minangkabau named “Rumah Gadang”. It has a small room called “Rangkiang” which has a function as a rice shed when the crisis come in minangkabau. This room has different name, for example: Sibayau – bayau and Sitinjau Lauik. Beside Rumah Gadang, there is also a “Bundo Kandung” park. Bundo Kanduang is a kind of hearted mother, one of the symbols of minangkabau because women have important rule since century years ago.
Fort de Kock
A military Fort was built on “Jirek hill” at 1825 by Dutch goverment. The Fort is called “Fort de Kock”. It was used as defense place by Dutch when face the first world war.
A water fountain was built in 1932, which called “Guguk Limpapeh”. It is also object for tourists. From this place, we can enjoy Bukittinggi view with several mountains and canyon surrounds it, like sianok canyon, merapi, singgalang, sago, and Pasaman Mountain.
Fort de Kock has been renovated by adding bird cage around it at 2002 by goverment fund.
Sianok Canyon
The Sianok Canyon and Panorama Park which also the tourist object in Bukittinggi are allocated about 2 km from the centre of the town.
We can enjoy the beautiful and amazing view from panorama park. One of the examples is Sianok Canyon, with Singgalang Mountain as its background. It presents very beautiful view. Besides, the fresh air and friendly people make all af the visitors really enjoy the situation over there. In this location, there are many facilities near the object, such as souvenir kiosk, beverage kiosk, bench over the park and also parking area. Then another interesting object is domestic monkey around the canyon.
In the middle of park area, we can find the Japanese Tunnel which has the historical value of Bukittinggi. It was built at 1942. During the construction process, thousands of people was forced to work. The tunnel was named after the Japanese occupants Indonesia.
Panorama Baru
Panorama Baru is a tourism object which still have nice natural view. Around of it we can enjoy the air fresh while take some meals, cause around in this place there are many mountain like Merapi mountain, Singgalang and Sago Mountain. And the bottom side of Panorama Baru we can enjoy Sianok Canyon view. And in this location there are many object like camping area, hiking area. An usual the every Sunday morning many people go to this place for jogging.
Jenjang 1000
The ladder 1000 is a tourism object with the green fertile soil and the rivers follow the steeply riverbanks gaps.
While passing through this ladder, we can enjoy the elegant and enchant view with Merapi and Singgalang as a background. Ladder 1000 is easy to get around the town centre. The beauty of the nature is always being a favourite place to visit by foreign and also local tourist. Sometimes, this place used as camping centre and hiking area.Besides, there are also fishing pool and large parking area as facility to the visitors.
