Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine January 2020 | Page 81

Travel / Bukittinggi
off a rich scent of spices. Looking for tasty food
in Bukittinggi is like looking for sand on a beach,
so, feeling hungry, I enter a restaurant. The
dishes on the dining table are in abundance:
curried cow trotters (gulai tunjang), steamed
fried chicken (ayam pop), duck with green
chillies (itiak lado ijau), beef jerky (dendeng),
fried eel (goreng belut), and many more,
including rendang – the tender coconut-milk
simmered beef dish that made CNN Travel’s list
of the 50 most delicious foods in the world.
At night, the mist descends once again and
Bukittinggi falls asleep swathed in a cold mist.
The next morning, I will probably get up late,
perhaps walk back to the edge of Sianok
Canyon, and sit with a cup of coffee while
gazing into the depths of the steep valley.
1. Paddy fields in the valleys of Ngarai Sianok Canyon.
2. Artists sell paintings at the Bukittinggi Zoo and the
Jam Gadang Clock Tower.
3. Underground bunkers built by the Japanese during
World War II.
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 t night, Bukittinggi falls asleep swathed
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