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My Journey and Experiences in Padang, West Sumatra Padang is a city located in West Sumatra, one of the many islands in Indonesia. My friends and I went there for a field trip in October of 2019. We didn't only go to Padang, we went to Bukittinggi as well. We went to a lot of places including museums, restaurants, historical landmarks, but the highlight of this trip truly was our experience of staying 2 nights at the traditional Rumah Gadang . A Rumah Gadang is a traditional home for Minangkabau people. You'd think that those kinds of houses don't exist anymore... right? Well actually, people still live in these kinds of houses. These houses have dramatically curved roof structure with multi-tiered gables. Shuttered windows are built into walls incised with profuse painted floral carvings. These communal houses are rectangular in plan, with multiple gables and ridges as roofs, which form buffalo horn-like ends. Often, these houses would have 3 tiers, with each ti...
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