Fort De Kock

Park

You can walk in a park where used to be a fort. You can see some old guns. In the park there are some cages with local birds. When we were in the park we could walk over a rope bridge to the local zoo...

Wildlife Areas and Cultural Kinantan and Bukittinggi Zoo

Horrible horrible animal conditions. Don’t go here unless you want to weep. Come on Indonesia get it together. Can certainly judge a people/culture by how they treat animals and this was a huge tell.

Dutch Fort Remnants

Originally built in 1825 by Captain Bouer and named it after Baron Hendrik Merkus de Kock, Vice Governor of Dutch Indies, this fort was built on top of the hill to defend from the local inhabitants du...

ZOO

This blue not a fort at all but a depressing zoo housing exotic animals in tiny enclosures. Walked in and came straight back out again.

A historical World War II site in Bukittinggi

A Fort of Nederland Indische troops in Bukittinggi which located up in the hill is theot visited location in Bukittinggi after Jam Gadang Its has a histrical place as a Fort pf deffence