Hei, friends! I’d like to tell you about my beloved hometown, Jambi. Jambi is a really peacefull city with so many hidden treasures. These treasures aren’t money or material, these are about cultures and beautiful nature places.
In Jambi, there are two places that’s so close but different. It is Jambi city and Seberang Jambi. These two places were divide by Batanghari river, usually people crossed the river by Auduri bridge but there are some people that still use our traditional transportation, ketek. Ketek is similar with gondola from Venezia but more simple. Something that make this unique transportation is the name of it. Ketek means lower part of arm in human body that stink like hell.
Maybe you would rarely found our traditional houses in Jambi city, but you could find it in Seberang Jambi easily. This traditional house is ‘rumah panggung’. Rumah pangggung is so similar with the long house or rumah panjang from dayak. Just like the long house, in rumah panggung there are more than 1 family lived there. But not as much as long house that is the house of 50 family, in rumah panggung there just around 15 family lived there.
And for Jambi’s original handycraft, there is Jambi’s batik. Batik in Jambi is different with batik in Java. In Jambi, we use many bright color like red, yellow and green. But in Java, people usually use dark color such as black, brown or dark blue. And for the corak (the background of batik) we use flower or animal.
And here, there’s Muaro Jambi temple. Muaro Jambi temple is built by Sriwijaya kingdom in the past. Muaro Jambi temple is exotic and cool. This place is quite and paecefull. There are 7 temples here and a unique pond called telaga hitam. From the history, telaga hitam was the place where the kings of Sriwajaya kingdom bathed.
Except Muaro Jambi temple, you could enjoy many beautiful places in the city. There are Batanghari river, Sipin lake or the new Batanghari 2 bridge. If you visit Jambi, you would greet by Jambi’s traditional dance, Si kapur sirih. And maybe you want to taste our traditional food? Such as tempoyak? You must definitely come here! It’s taste incredible!
It will be a very good idea if you write your name after the title, so it will read : Visit Jambi (By YourName). You will be very proud to see your name written on the blog