Pridal-aventure: Semarang - Central Java

Shore Excursion to Ambarawa Train Museum and Scenic Railway trip.

We filled three motor coaches and as the time table is very tight here in Semarang Harbour, it was necessary with police escort - one in front and one behind – to make sure that we were back in good time, so the ship could leave the harbor on schedule. The excursion was scheduled to 5 hrs, but the traffic is very heavy and slow, so if we did not have the police escort, we would only have reached half the distance in those 5 hrs. I felt like a “VIP” with that police escort with flashing blue light and Mac-Cloud horn when necessary . I think that most of the old Americans thought it was necessary because of their security, but who really knows ?

Weicome party at Semarang Harbur

rice paddies on Java

The Engine (lokomotive) for our train trip

The Dutch King Willem 1

Simple controls of the old Engine

Very big old Engine at the museum

Our Engine has turned around so we go back again

lots of active vulcanoes on Java

The old fashion of removing weed

the new way to do it

they have rounded up the fishes

our police escort

The clue of today was a visit to an old Dutch plantation - Coffee – Rubber – Nutmeg – etc. The plantation is now driven of the local government and as an exemplary plantation. They offered you a taste of their coffee product , by giving you a hard roasted coffee bean and a little brown sugar to put in your mouth and chew it well before swallowing it. If you swallow it together with a little cognac, you have the Danish drink called a “koks”, try it !!