Semarang and surroundings.
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 | Old Times (Tempo Doeloe). As my father may have seen it when he just arrived in Indonesia in the early nineteen-thirties and he apparently stayed for some time in the town. |
 Hotel Candi Baru. The famous Hotel from the old times. (Hotel Bellevue) |
 The fabulous rooms with the Art Nouveau decorations. No air conditioner required! |
 The former office of the Railway Company on a rainy day in the afternoon. (Nederlandsch Indische Spoorwegen, NIS) Now it will become soon a Hotel. The House with the thousand doors it is called; Lawang Sewu. |
 Kauman Kudus near Semarang. With beautiful Javanese houses which I could not get properly on a photo. The gates were too narrow and the inner gardens too small. |
| China Town and the old port area. Here you also can find many old Dutch buildings. Most buildings on my father's photo's we found back. It was fun to search. |
 Gedung Batu. The place where Cheng Ho landed on Java. Three religions are worshipped here, each with their own shrine; side by side: Mohammed, Confucius and Buddha. Cheng Ho is supposed to be the first person to spread Islam on Java. |
 The Tay Kak Sie temple is a nice example of a Chinese temple in Semarang. Fake money is offered here in the oven on the left. |
 Gambling and Cock Fighting in China town. |
 A small workshop attached to the Tay Kak Sie temple. |
| Around Semarang Jepara, Kartini's Home land. Now a place where the best carpenter's of Indonesia are found. |
 Typical Javanese farm houses and carpenter workshops near Jepara. The most beautiful teak-wood furniture of Java is made here. |
 The grave of Kali Nyamar, the great warrior-queen of Jepara who twice laid siege to Portugal's stronghold in Malacca. Look, women are worshipping here! |
 The Waringin tree in Kudus near the Kauman. The Waringin tree is the sacred tree of Java, found on many places. |
 Gedung Songo on Sunday near the hotwater springs. Mount Ungaran. There are nine candi's here. You will not be able to ignore the people around you. This is part of the Javanese experience. |