The boat on top of houses at Lampulo

On to the 2nd day of the 23-30 March visit to Aceh...

Monday 24th March 2014. After a good night sleep at a mid-town hotel in Banda Aceh we started the day with a visit to a place called Lampulo.

The place is famous for a fishing boat stranded on top of houses, washed away by the Tsunami of 26th December 2004 which killed more than 200,000 Aceh people.

Me, wife and our then 3 plus month-old son Rasyid first visited this place early 2010. Since then new structures have been built around it as the boat has become a well-known tourist attraction.

There. My parents on top the highest platform watching.

The boat was actually on repair at a dock a distance from here but got washed by the huge waves of Tsunami. That's when some 50 plus survivors managed to get on board and stayed on until the water subsided.

Kudos to the authorities and locals for making this a good place to reflect on the Tsunami.