Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Today started... one of these days I'll start a blog post without that phrase... not yet though. Today started with breakfast and then a stint of reading before venturing out into the blisteringly hot day. First stop was the rotating viewing platform which raises 80m above the city. From the top you should be able to see over to Sumatra but the morning was quite hazy.
After that we went for a protracted walk around the shopping malls of the city and down to the pier that leads out over the straights towards a small offshore island. The silt had built up heavily in the area, this was the main reason that the traders had stopped coming here in years gone by, it made the waves very small and wading birds were visible in the water.
The walk back to the hotel took some time included a long stop in a Japanese restaurant for lunch. We actually also took in some historical sights of the city too. There is a large gate remaining from the Dutch defenses of the trading port and on the top of the hill, a large church. This was build by the Portuguese and used by them and the Dutch as a church but the English used it as a gunpowder store when they took over the area, blowing up the dutch built defenses as they did so.
Tomorrow will see a fair bit of traveling ending with an overnight train to the north of the country. I doubt I'll get to post until the day after.
Until then...
PS. To continue on the bizarre Pringle flavours purchased (cheesy cheese, seaweed, pizza, dill pickle) today blueberry and hazelnut can be added to that list!
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