Semarang City is capital of Central Java. For local tourists, Semarang known as city of lumpia. Lumpia itself is some snack made from young bamboo combine with egg, meat (chicken or shrimp), and other kitchen herbs, wrapping with flour that made just as thin as paper. Beside lumpia, we can find soft spines Milkfish (Bandeng Presto), Wingko Babad, Moci cake, Tahu Pong, etc. Want to buy some of them? Try to locate Pandanaran Street, we can find them there.
Not just foods, Semarang also known for mistics tourism, such as Lawang Sewu or we can take a tour on old city of Semarang. Lawang Sewu located in the heart of Semarang City, it means A Thousand of Door, located on northeast of Tugu Muda. Its a former Nederlands-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij office, and now it become preserve historic building. Lawang Sewu became a mistical tourism since there are sighting seen by people.
Tugu Muda is a statue to remember the 5 days battle between Netherland colonial against freedom fighters in Semarang. In the north side of Semarang, there is old city which explain how the living society back to Netherland invasion era. Its a heritage of Netherland colonial that local government tried to preserve this area and to maintain the condition of the buldings. One of them is Imanuel Church, also known as Blenduk Church, where chrisitian doing their cermonial until now.
Icon of Semarang City is Simpang Lima. Its a field in the middle of cross-section in business area. Simpang Lima often used for concerts and other performances, and surrounded by hotels, malls, movie theatres, hospital, and mosque. On weekend, this area usually close to vehicles since people used to exercise in this area, such as jogging, bicycling, aerobic, badminton or just gathering around with family.
Semarang harbour called Tanjung Emas, located on north side of Semarang City. This harbour frequently visited by cruise ship and serves domestic and international shipping. Not so far from the harbour, there is a public beach called Pantai Marina with exhibition area in the west side of it.
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