Lorry Ride ......

Train is one of my favorite things when I was a kid; don’t know why I like it the most, besides all military tings. There’ are two places that I quite often to visit in this little town, One is This train museum and the other one is the “Palagan Ambarawa” which is a memorial park build to remind the Battle of Ambarawa, 12 December 1945 when the Great General Soedirman ordering large scale offensive to drove Allied forces back to Semarang.

Now days, we always pay a visit there every time we went to Semarang to see my parents. Usually we start from “Kerep” which is a devotional visit place that has Mother Marry Statue.

This is the third time we here, but it still become one of our kids favorite place. An old train stations, a bit less treated, probably because of limited maintenance fund, that may happened to most of Indonesian museum, and only small numbers of museum that has proper maintained such as one in Bandung, the Geology Museum, but not this one.

Trash everywhere, mixed with many stalls scatter around the place, thick dust in some corners has become proves that the place is not well maintained. But still, it is an interesting place to see since it has lot of vintage locomotives display.

This time we took lorry just to go to “Tuntang Train Station” to have some sightseeing next to “Rawapening” lake. It took about 30 minutes ride on single way so that it spends a total about 1.5 hours before we get back to the museum.

The ride is a bit tricky since the machinist refuse to drive the lorry at the first place, before we have a “very understanding deal” with him before ride. Totally we have to spend about Rp. 200.000,- to make the lorry up and go! But it is a nice ride, we ride next to the lake and saw some exciting scenery, green rice padi field, chicken and duck stall, up to fisherman boat and pier.

Fisherman boat Quay on Rawapening Lake shore

One thing that is very funny is because the train is very noisy and bumppy, it is very difficult to have still pictures on that conditions. I have to use continous shooter to get several pictures. It is not easy at all, moreover the machinist did not want to stop the lorry since he wants to went home earlier. Oh boy ........