3.11.2009

Island Kemaro : Legend Eternal True Love

Kemaro Islands located in the downstream river musi and breadth about 5 ha, which is a delta in the middle of the river musi now become one of tourism object water.Form the background to its island Kemaro become a ritual where the famous to the foreign country and this means high start a legend in the true love between two people and culture of the period first.

According to the story, at the time of first daughter of a king named Sriwijaya Siti Fatimah married by the son of the king from the land of China named Tan Bun Ann. King Sriwijaya submit this requirement must be met by Tan Bun Ann. Requirements is Tan Bun Ann 9 provide jar must contain gold. Family Bun Tan Ann also accept the terms proposed. To avoid pirate, gold that is in the jar-jar is coated vegetables by the family without the Bun Tan Ann.
On a day trip in sailing from China to Jakarta, Tan Bun An entourage So bring on the mouth of the Musi River and accidentally when the Prince wanted to know whether the contents of the jar is ninth in the Chinese Emperor gave to the question of the daughter Siti Fatimah but after opening one of the jar and how terkejutnya know the content of the jar after the vegetables and feel ashamed in front of a potential law, the one at the jar to dispose d in the Musi River. However, when the last gucu accidentally fell and broke out, jump out of the jar is a lot of gold.

Realizing its mistake, the prince is very remorseful and plunge directly into the river to seek re-jar jar is together with Ajudan apply it for the sake of the beloved daughter. But the Prince did not appear from the Musi River in forever.
See people who are in love it does not appear from the basic river, Siti Fatimah eventually became very sad and desperate, and he decided to follow in the river to search for the Prince with his faithful lady-in-waiting and said that if he does not successfully find the Prince and a time when there are bumps that appear from the land base in this river, then there is the grave of King daughter.

End of story this search, it appeared that the right has the putrid follow the Prince to forever ago and the bumps appear on the land that is now known by the name of Kemaro.
Such as coral mound in the middle of the cemetery is the daughter Siti Fatimah, on the left and right is ajudan prince of China and the lady-in-waiting Putri. In each there is a pile of wood and roof and the stone is given any posts Nisan Font color Red and Chinese well.
This island will be crowded on the go by the visitors from both ethnic in china and abroad such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, China and other countries, especially at the time of Cap Go Me (15 days after Imlek), and there is a rare tree in a tree where love is when young couples-mudi together when you carve the name of their love they say they will continue to weddings.


18 comments:

  1. Thank you Indra for commenting on my blog! It is very nice to meet you! I live in NYC! And I have never been to Indonesia, and I would love to learn more about your country:)
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  2. hi indra,,
    thanks for dropping by my blog.
    it's nice for u to promote Palembang. i've never been there and i would really love to visit one day.

    do visit my travel blog - http://travelwithbubbles.blogspot.com - to learn about Malaysia. =)

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  3. pengen banget kesana,tempatnya bagus ya...

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  4. Hi, Indra ... thx ya sudah mampir ke blog kami. Kapan ya ... kami bisa buat pertunjukkan di Palembang? Keren banget foto-fotonya. Pokoknya te o pe be ge te deh. Sekarang kami baru bisa pertunjukkan paling jauh di Cirebon & Kuningan. Maklum ... anggota kami masih anak-anak. Kalau pertunjukkan bisa 1 pleton yang ikut.

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  5. mas ya pilihan anda untuk mepoting dalam bahasa ingris .bahasa ingris ku minim .Salam kenal ya

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  6. Oh, what a beautiful photo!
    It was nice to see that you dropped by my blog and left a comment... thank you!
    Take care and best wishes. :-)

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  7. Very beautiful. good job and good blog

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  8. Lovely pictures! Have a grand day! Cathy

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  9. Wonderful pagoda illuminated nighttime pictures always have a certain charm.

    Hello, Marlow

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  10. Have A Great Weekend.Regards
    tony.

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  11. Thanks for the message on my blog Indra..Your blog is also very interesting.

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  12. salam kenal jg...

    wah... tulisan mu bagus yah...
    good...good...

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