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​​1. Last year, my big family and I went to my uncle’s hometown in Padang. My uncle’s house was in Bukit Tinggi. We departed from Bengkulu on Saturday afternoon and arrived at Kota Padang on Sunday at 1 p.m. The first thing that we did when we arrived in Kota Padang was visiting Masjid Raya Sumatera Barat. We took a pray in that huge mosque and after that we took some picture in that place with the mosque as the background. We finished our sightseeing in the mosque area at 2 p.m and after that we headed to the center of Kota Padang to look for lunch. After several minutes, we decided to stop at a Warung Bakso Urat. After finishing our lunch, we continued our trip to Bukit Tinggi.

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​​2. We arrived at my uncle house in Baso subdistrict at 10 in the evening. It was away too late from our schedule because there was an extreme traffic jam on our way to Baso. Our grandmother was waiting in front of the house when we arrived. We parked the car in front of the house and I brought all of our belongings down from the car and took them to our room. After that we all had dinner together because our grandmother had prepared so many kinds of delicious food in the kitchen. After finishing our dinner, we went to bed because we were all very tired.

​Family Holiday in Padang

​​3. In the morning, I and all of my cousins went out for jogging. We walked around the neighborhood. We kept on walking until we reached the main road. We took some pictures in front of the street portal. After that we went back to my uncle’s house. When we arrived at my uncle’s house, we had breakfast together and after that one by one of us took a bath because there were only three bathrooms in the house. When we were all ready, we went to a tourism place close to my uncle’s house named Sungai Janiah. The place was 5 minutes away from my uncle’s house. Inside the place, there was a very large pond .We saw so many giant fish in the pond. We bought some fish food from a merchant inside the location and threw it into the pond so that the giant fish would get closer to us.

​Family Holiday in Padang

​​4. The next day, we prepared ourself in the morning because we were going to have a very long journey to some tourism locations which were located far away from Bukit Tinggi. Our first destination was Lembah Harau. This place looked like the Grand Canyon in America with a huge stone mountain around. There was also a waterfall in the center of the place where so many visitors took some pictures. The valley is very beautiful, I felt like I was in another planet because the scenery was similar to the one that I saw in Star Wars movie. We went to a spot where we could capture the beauty of the valley and took a family photo in that place.

​Family Holiday in Padang

​​5. Our last destination was Istana Pagaruyung or Istano Baso. We arrived in the location at 4 p.m. I was not really excited because I was still upset of what happened before. The palace is very huge and it represented the typical design of buildings in Padang with pointed roof. I took some pictures inside the palace and after that I sat in front of the palace until all of my family finished their sightseeing because I was very tired. We returned home at 6 p.m.

​Family Holiday in Padang