The Beauty of Sunda Kelapa Port
Ships at Sunda Kelapa Harbor Jakarta photo rikaji
Sunda Kelapa Harbor 1527, that what is written at the entrance to the Jakarta’s oldest port of . At the age of more than eight centuries, the port which is also the origin of the Jakarta is trying to survive. To get here, visitors can use the various modes of transportation but if you have a very spare time, walking in the morning or afternoon from the Old City to the port would be an interesting experience. Many stories are told by the old building along the way to the port. Unfortunately, walking in this area is extremely uncomfortable. Except for holidays or Sunday.
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History says, this port is used by the Tarumanagara Kingdom started at about the 5th century. Sunda Kelapa was never lonely, this port is an important port until the time of the European explorers arrived and the Dutch masters more than 300 years. Now the harbor is filled with old wooden ships carrying timber wood, cement, steel, building materials delivery to and from Borneo/Kalimantan.
If not satisfied looking at rows of ships from the mainland, there is a tenant who will take the visitors by boat to browse through the port of Jakarta Bay. The view is clearly very contrast where huses of the poor standing beside the buildings of the rich. Until now people from the villages on the left side of Sunda Kelapa (the poor) are often walking around with a canoe.
Sunda Kelapa photo by IwanTan
Villagers are busy fishing from the boat in the estuary of Ciliwung river, quite attractive, especially when the sun was about to slip into the west. All that combined with a busy crew. This is the most interesting attraction when you want to observe the people in the tourism place in Indonesia. Imagine this port a few centuries back, when the new arrivals from Europe anchored their ship. Imagine also how Prince Jayakarta managed to expel the Portuguese at this point, the starting point of Jakarta.
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