Friday, December 22, 2006

Semarang-day 2


Day 2

After spending a fantastic time in day 1, we tried to get more exciting places to be explored in day 2.

In the morning (actually it wasn't morning time, but for us that was still early time to awake), we planed to go to old buddhist temple or in bahasa we call it "klenteng". This klenteng locates in Lombok Street (sorry, I forget the name).
Nearby klenteng, there's also lumpia "hawker" (refers to Singaporean slang for street cafe). But compare with mbak Lien's lumpia, I thought I preferred mbak Lien's. Unfortunately, we didn't come to this "klenteng" in previous day. If we came earlier, we were gonna see the ceremony of The Earth God.

In here, Momo took so many picture of herself and one picture of kitty's. After satisfying for taking picture, we decided to go to another "klenteng". This Klenteng locates far away from downtown. So, we should take taxi to go there. And believe me, If you have a time to visit this "klenteng" better you take bus or "angkot".Because the rate of taxi in Semarang is very very expensive, it's more expensive compared than in Jakarta.

Arrived to this second "klenteng", we really enjoyed the view there. This second klenteng stands in the hilly area. The air was so fresh and the sun shined not too bright. It was a little bit cloudy. The area of this klenteng is much bigger than the other one. But, the building is more modern, with oriental touch, just a little bit similar with Thailand's temple (It's my dream to go to Thailand. I just can't wait to go there with u hunny).

As always, we did momo's hobby here, "took her picture with her famous V-finger". We spent much time at this temple. Looking for good angle to be shot while we got serious conversation about culture.

Satisfied to get some pictures, we returned to downtown, looking some "oleh-oleh" for our friends and family. At that time, we made a decision to buy Bandeng presto, lumpia and also other snacks. We chose to go by becak from bus station to Bandeng Presto Store in Pandanaran street. There are so many stores which sell Bandeng Presto and the other traditional foods in this street, but the famous one is Bandeng Presto Juwana.

Due to limited time and we were in hurry to chase our flight, we couldn't explore this street for so long. Finished buying some snacks, we went back to Novotel hotel to pick up our belongings there and also to take some pictures of us in that hotel.

Finally....KittynMomo's Semarang Trip has to be ended here. Because we should go back to Jakarta, dealing with our routinities and finding new destination to be explored next.

C u in our next trip then......

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