Minggu, 24 Januari 2010
AMBARAWA TRAIN MUSEUM - Indonesia Java International Destination
Ambarawa is the small city in Central Java, Indonesia, about 30km south from Semarang and some 75km north of the educational centre and tourist city of Yogyakarta, and also about 70km north-west from Solo (Surakarta). Ambawara is on the main road between Semarang and Yogyakarta and a few km south of the main road between Semarang and Solo. Ambarawa is an alternative tourism when you visit Java, it’s Indonesia Java International destination.
You can get there by car or bus from Semarang, Solo or Yogyakarta. You can find the Bandungan, the hill resort at Ambarawa, find fruit, vegetable and flower markets in there, it’s really fresh and cheaper.
Ambarawa Train Museum was build in 1873, during the Koningen Willem I and it still good as any old station, and it has a waiting room, a grand old clock, it is still perfectly working! The station is no longer functioning to serve the publics and the rails does not go anywhere anymore. You can find the old type writers and some kind of telephone and communication tools displayed as other good old stations.
In those colonial days, these trains traveled back and forth in rather hilly terrains, serve passengers and carry some plantations estates around the area, therefore it equipped with "gears” that were installed in the middle of the rails, in order to be able to climb up the hills.
Now, when you visit Ambarawa Train Museum, you have tried the train, feel how the trip by old train, the price is 3.5 million rupiah for a trip with the Old Grand Dad, it’s carry for approximately 40 persons (maximum). The journey from the museum to a Bedono village, around 20 kilometers and return, takes approximately 3 hours.
You have arranged a train reservation at least a month before and for your information that during the high season between late May and the end of August the trains are quite heavily booked.
If you are lucky, maybe you can get permission from the event organizer (not the museum staff) to ride the train upon you arrive and there is a train operating then it will be private to the party organising it, and you just prepare a fee to pay. Allow the train trip about 3 hours for the return, if you want to stop the train to take photographs of it then you will need longer, but please note that on the rack section this can only be done in the downhill direction owing to lack of water capacity of the locomotives.
So, visit the Ambarawa Train Museum is an alternative of Indonesia Java International destination.
Jumat, 22 Januari 2010
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