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rizky's posts with tag: old cemetery
|  | the cemetery also known as kebon jahe kober (the ginger garden cemetery) the name 'ginger garden' might refers to the name of the area where the cemetery situated. this cemetery was also one of the first cemetery applying the concept of modern cemetery park/garden with arboretum concept in the world.
however i've been visiting this place for three times, the first time i made my visit here was back in 2003, not much i could recall except for some mixed romatic gloomy feeling about the tombs. the second one was for sure couldn't be deleted from my memory slot, since i had to spend 7 days in hospital bed, and the whole week after, for total bed rest at home for dengue fever, which i'm very much sure i got the bites from the mosquitoes at that place. the 'funny' thing was, actually i went to the place with a friend of mind, and we both suffered from the same fever. the last time i went to the place, things were pretty much messed-up, i got bites, again, thanks god nothing happened up to now, but some sour notes got to be made:
1. some tombs were broken, miss-placed and some even mutilated. i got a very strong impression that this place hasn't been properly well taken care.
2. some huge trees fallen over the tombs, leaving the huge root, and made some old metal tomb fences broken. however nothing has been fixed.
3. admission fees seems to be not well managed, some people who wanders around the museum even collects some money for camera and unofficial entrance fee from visitors. and it certainly caused such inconvenience. |
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