Cruises from Padang
Padang lies in the centre of the west coast of Sumatra facing the Indian Ocean. It is the capital of West Sumatra province. It is one of the cleanest cities in Indonesia, receiving the national “Adipura” award 17 times. The city has been under control of Portuguese, Dutch and British over the centuries who valued its pepper, gold, coffee, salts and textiles. Read more
Today the city of 880,00 has two universities, and many intellectual figures come from the province. The Minangkabau (“Victorious buffalo”) people of the province highly value education, their traditions, are Islamic, and a matrilineal society. Their traditional long houses curve upward from the middle to points, like buffalo horns.