Maimoon Palace: “Built on the Basis of Trust”

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Indonesia has a lot of many cultures that are still maintained and certainly we as the next generation can learn about what the meaning of its and absolutely protect its. For you who love spending time to learn natural culture from the countries in this world, I’m pretty sure that Indonesia would be a nice educational trip.

I’m sure you’ve already know the Borobudur temple, one of the 7 world wonders and also Bali, an exotic island which has many cultures such as famous Balinese dances like Pendet, Kecak, Topeng and many more. And that’s only a small-part that you can find in Indonesia. There are many places with natural culture and absolutely could be a nice educational trip.

One of them is Maimoon Palace as well as Istana Maimoon that located at Brigjen Katamso street no.55, Medan, North Sumatra. This palace is well-known landmark in Medan. Built by Sultan Makmun Al Rasyid Perkasa Alamsyah (Sultan Deli, one of 2 sultanates in North Sumatra in the 19th century) at 1888 on a land measuring 2.772 m2 and also has 30 rooms.

What we can learn from Istana Maimoon?

The color of yellow. This palace dominated by yellow color. It was not caused by color of a political party, but it caused that palace is condensed with Malay which identical of yellow color.
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Adventures Travel in Indonesia

With more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia will be a great adventure travel destination plan next holiday. You can find many place that can be the great place to add-more your adventure experiences.

Such as on Sulawesi. There are many traditional events. One of it, is funeral ceremonies and timeless traditions of Tana Toraja.
According to Wikipedia travel:

The land of the Toraja people, many notionally Christian but most in practice animist, is above all famed for their spectacular (and rather gruesome) burial rites. After a person’s death, the body is kept — often for several years — while money is saved to pay for the actual funeral ceremony, known as tomate. During the festival, which may last up to a week, ritual dances and buffalo fights are held, and buffaloes and pigs are slaughtered to ferry the soul of the deceased to the afterlife (puya). The deceased is then finally buried either in a small cave, often with a tau-tau effigy placed in front, inside a hollow tree or even left exposed to the elements in a bamboo frame hanging from a cliff.

Tana Toraja has unique culture set in stunning scenery. Globalization and tourism may have impact, but if you venture away from the tarmac roads you will find soon a way of life that has not changed much in the last 100 years.

That’s only for example. Many more places you can find in Indonesia.
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