Wisata Dermaga Lukup Penalan Dedalu – Takengon

 Hallo 😊

Are you still confused about where to go for the New Year's holidays? Let's go to Gayo to be precise in the Central Aceh area. Don't waste your vacation and don't forget to adhere to health protocols.

Vacation is one way to get rid of boredom and stress due to routine and tedious work. You can take a vacation to the nearest place or area where you live and can also vacation outside the city like Takengon. Takengon is the capital of Central Aceh Regency, Aceh Province, Indonesia. Takengon is a plateau with cool air with an altitude of about 1200 m above sea level. Takengon has many interesting tourist attractions, not only for tourism but also for delicious culinary delights. In Takengon the most famous throughout the world is the unique Gayo coffee, the coffee also has various types, come on visit Gayo.

    The tour that you can visit is Penalan Quayside, this tour is affordable not too far from the city, you can use motorbikes, cars, bicycles and even jogging to come to this tour. If from the direction of the Bale bridge then you can turn left, follow the direction of the road until you pass the school on the left, continue straight, then you will see the Lukup Penalan Pier which is on the left. This tour used to be vacated, but young people who have the initiative to make this tour active again, now you can visit it, there are lots of spots to take selfies, the facilities there also provide parking, prayer rooms, bathrooms, and seats for large families, there also available sanger coffee, and pastries or we can also bring food from home and sit in the huts to enjoy the tourist environment. You don't need to worry about releasing children because this place is not dangerous, in this tour there is also a swing ride for children and children can ride a toy horse near the swing, here there is also a fountain with ornamental fish. There are also various ornamental fish, including pomfret, mujahir, peres, glass cleaner and lotus. The view of the Lukup Penalan Pier is very pleasing to the eye because it immediately sees the natural surroundings, the unspoiled nature, the sound of birds chirping, the cool air when the wind passes right in front of us.

  This tour is very beautiful and also wide, we can go around around the tour to enjoy the green scenery, not only that because this tour is on the edge of the lake, we can see first hand the beauty of Lake Lut Tawar and also the mountains around it, usually in the afternoon Many cranes are flying around the tour, right next to the tour is where the crane lives. Here, not only taking pictures, but also we can ride a boat that will go around the lake, you can capture this moment and it will be a very beautiful memory with family and friends. To enter the tourist area, you don't have to pay expensive for a motorbike, only IDR 5,000 and IDR 10,000 for a car, and IDR 2,500 per person. So those of you who want to visit this tour will definitely not regret it. The days that many people visit are of course on Sundays and national holidays.

     Most of those who come there are of course local tourists, there are foreign tourists, but for the current pandemic era, it is not as usual. Tourist attractions have also been closed when Covid-19 has risen, in the past few months, new tourist attractions have been opened, considering that because some people only make their livelihoods from these tourist attractions, there is also coffee but coffee is not as expensive as it used to be, the dropping price makes the Gayo community disappointed because coffee fruit is now a lot. So this tourist spot is in the process of being renovated (renovation) so that there are still a lot of things to be built including a cafe or coffee bar. Hopefully this article can be useful for all of you. Thanks for reading😊

MIRANI ( IAIN TAKENGON ) ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

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