Today we had a tour of Semerang in Indonesia. We were greeted on the Quaysdie by music and dancers.
This included a visit to a herbal medicine factory, an 17th Century Dutch Church (Gereja Blendhuk). Then a building dating from 1863 which was the HQ of the Dutch Indonesian train Company called Lawag Sewu (1000 doors, just looks like it!). In 1942 the Japanese used it as their interrogation HQ so a lot of people died there …
Pictures are also of the Chinese Sam Po Kong temple built in honour of Admiral Cheng Ho who lead the fleets here in the 15th Century, and finally the Ranggawarsita museum, a lovely carved Ramayana.
It rained after that, and we got soaked!
