From Cheng Ho to Colonial

Built from a dried swamp, Semarang became a famous port city since the 16th century. Since then Semarang visited by many other nations including Admiral Cheng Ho, Chinese explorer that live in The Ming Dynasty, which left the tracks by building a mosque in Semarang. Today, the city of Semarang is a mixture of an old and new java cultures, Arab and Chinese.

As the capital of Central Java, Semarang has many baroque era buildings built by the colonial. This is because the colonial has made Semarang as one of their major ports as well as functioned as a defenses fortress and military headquarters. The election of Semarang as one of their major ports as well as a military fortress and headquarters by the colonial based on geographical location of Semarang is strategically in the middle of the Java island and the location of Semarang on the beach. This baroque era buildings can only found in Semarang from all over Indonesia.

Semarang is the place for you that interesting in local herb medicines (known as "jamu" in local language) to have more information and want to knows how it is made. Semarang has a good landscape, because it is combination of coastal areas and hills. beside that, Semarang is the suitable place to know and feel how life in the colonial era and its interaction with the kingdoms in Java at the past time. Semarang is full of exciting and enticing backpacker attractions and is just a short journey from some of the very best that this part of Indonesia has to offer.