Trip to Padang Sawah Temple West Sumatra

Footsteps of a Walker
Walk 'till you got anything you wanna know
Sunday, 4th September 2016

Lets Follow my footsteps !

Many publication has released about this Spot I've visited today, what I Posted today is recent condition of Excavation Project in the Temple Complex.

If you are a member of an organization who care in historical object and interested in explore newest undercover object in the world, I think you need yo see this one and get your desire satisfied. For the reader who has information I need to know about this temple, please let me know.

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LOCATION

Nagari Siguntur

Pulau Punjung Subdistrick

Dharmasraya Regency

West Sumatra Province

Indonesia
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There are more temple near this area, I'll let you know after I already visit it. Keep Exploring !

HOW TO GET IN THERE ?

Roundtable under the tree in front of impermanent shop

Located in Jorong 2, Nagari Siguntur to reach the location we have to ride motorcycle about 10 minutes from Sikabau Branch, right inf front of Sikabau Traditional Market. Ride through the Jorong 2 House Complex untill you find the nearest Sungai Dareh River where you can find impermanent shop. When I was there today, several boat parked on the edge of the river. Some Illegal gold meaning near the shop is working. Looking for gold with 3-5 people worker who will be payed about Rp. 200.000/day.

Five minutes by boat to reach the temple

If you boating throught the river, you'll see an eye catching hills and some rocks. This place has to be a great location because it has several hills and a big river. The original colour of this river is clear a bit greeny. Since many people polute the river by illegally mining the gold, the colour become cream and muddy, by erotion. If you want to see its original colour, come at one day before Ied Fithri untill two days after and it will completely clean. Pak Jorong told me this.

Dog owner and his worker, make time to bath and drinking for dogs

Someplace in Dharmasraya held Pig Hunting in sunday. People comes from another area to join the event. Hunting pig is important to decreasing pig population, because pig is the most dangerous animal to paddy and vegetable field. This event joined by only man in hunting proccess while consumption matter for the participant prepared by woman.This event also one of prestigious event for man. When the event is held people gathering, shows their dog collection and its ability in catching the pig. For your information, people here doesn't use sniper in hunting, they only rely on the dog attack such as biting and scratching. Spear using only if its needed.

Beauty me with Miss Documentary

Boating through the river is frightening because the bottom of the boat is lower than the water surface. Especially because we got an old boat and we felt like will it wrecked or crashed something hard inside the river like stone and big tree stem. Both are most common stuffs in the river actually. I am not so brave to take a selfie but then fortunately I have Kak Intan in front of me and she is the Miss Documentary who has capability in taking picture in however condition.

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1st TEMPLE

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Bang Lutfi and bang Mirza are stepping up

Climb on and get your body wet never be wrong ! When we arrived the next land, stairs welcoming us and invite us to taking step bigger. Big grasses beside the stairs with height as a man height. If you walk on the stairs, you can find pieces of the brick. Be careful with it because we thought that it might be a stair to on the past so it must be brick of ex-stairs. History are magical. It was there and it has prove. Visiting historical object make us realize that we have limit ini our life. Someday we will be unavailable in this world and people in the next era talk about us as their ancient, making theory, and then next then...

Big Rubber tree after the grasses

Welcome to the out there land ! Here we found rubber and rubber again. Pft! my life is truely full of rubber everyday everytime.

We can see the roof of excavation room, the gate and the wall of the temple already when we've done with the stairs. It is not far. Trust me !

Our pouch landed safely in front of the excavation room

Then I am starting to suggest you, wherever you go, whatever activity you do, if you still in need with water, bring your own bottle and refill it. Leave our habit of buying mineral bottle ! Lets be nice to the nature because it is nice with us. I mean nature gives us oxygen as our lifeneed for breathing. What it give is totally important for us. Will we keep torturing our bestfriend ? C'mon be nice to earth !
We have packed rice and mineral water in the bottle. Its a picnic ! So fun !!

WELCOME !!!

Pak Jorong told us that someday a spiritualist come to do meditation here and he get a vision about existing of gold uner the temple but it has guarder, a powerful spirit and dangerous. He also told us that one of the difficulties of excavating this temple is because its hard to predict the original design, because we dont have any clues. Bang Lutfi said that it was ashame why the spiritualist only told something about meaning, not about the vision of the real form of this temple.

This method is the same method used for excavating Borobudur Temple where to find the real dessign is by seeing the vision of some spiritualist and yeah, it was rebuilt and it is amazing. Even if it is not done yet. Yup that beauty big temple is still haeing missing peaces. Imagine how great it was ! High tech is in't it ?

Excavation room has a big table in it, and we can seat here in the rain

Big enemy of a project is not people who deny it, but people who has given the responsibility to solve it but they betray us. Temple excavation has that probability to meet. Lets see next year, how much excavation has done and how much publication about this.

I dont know when was the project started and the only thing I found today is that no workers here. Only trashes of human who ever eat packed food here. After the team welcomed by the laying stones forming squarre shape, rain falling.

Working room

Even if this is not a real room but based on the tools we found in it, it is working room. I dont know what is that dried grass meaning.I feel curious because you know, in Indonesia some people believes that when we doing activity with the past, we have to asking permission from the spirit of the ancient by giving some spessifyc food, or plants. Is it the part of this practices ? I can't make sure it. No one knows.

CONGRATULATION !!
You are exclusively can see this special picture !

This is called as Alu

This tool called as Alu. It is a rare traditional tool for processing paddy. Beside the less of people who able to make alu, newest technology for processing paddy cause the need number of Alu decrease by time. I have one in my home, but itt is made by Javanese with a perfect long xylinder stick and here is another Alu from another area with a slim shape in the midlle of its stick so I have to taking picture with it. It also making me remembering my time when I wa yougner. I was in grade five and my family love grindled cassava leave curry and it always be my task for grindling and the tools to make it smoother is this tools, Alu.

For your info, in the past when Alu was popular, it always used in group togehter in a village and people grindling and singing together with the music which come from grindling. So romantic tradition !

Super-brick

If I got a model then I have to be a model too

Because this post is a footstep kind information then I made this be like chronologically to make sure that to follow my journey, you have to be at the same step with mine.

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WALK TO THE 2nd TEMPLE

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Enjoy reading ! But first, let me take a selfie

Walk away walk away so far

Lantana camara

Melastoma malabatrichum

If you are curious to see the next old temple under the land, turn right on the little road beside the temple. Because I'm a Biology student, here are the beauty living creature I found on the way to the second temple.