maninjau. the most beautiful lake in west sumatra province, indonesia. it's famous for the crystal lake and 44 hairpin turns on the way to its lake from  direction bukittinggi towards bayur region.

it was used to be weekend destination during dutch colonial era. no wonder, the architecture of wooden houses still remain nowadays. we'd stayed in one  of these old houses as a homestay about long time ago. we stayed at the second floor, where the owner provided old books collection that we liked so much.

and this experience will never be happened again. when we come back again a year later, the homestay already closed. so we tried another place to stay by the edge of the lake. and we had nice memories too. surrounded by rice [padi] field and pretty close to the lake. we love to do sunset swim here!

pictures (c) ukirsari and nicholas ingram