Tapaktuan is the capital of South Aceh Regency, Aceh province. The city has an area of 92,68 km2 with a population of roughly 22,343 inhabitants. When the 2004 Tsunami, the city defended the island of Simeulue so powerful waves windowwas shattered and the reduced intensitasnya when up on the coast. The town of Tapaktuan save the compelling storyabout the legend of the Dragon and natural marine tourism has not much known and visited.
The topography of the town is at an altitude of 500 m above sea level brought him on the wet tropical climate with the beauty of nature, the clusters of weary, and the Gulf Coast that is captivating. Nautical excursions can be done here, such as in the Gulf Coast of Tapaktuan and Monitor Labuhan Haji. There are also other attractive tourist destinations, namely,Panoramic tour of cold water, Hatta, the island the two Crocodile, Genting, he is cool Panjupian, waterfalls, stone Twi Lhoksailing, or cave of Kalam.
Tapaktuan is a city on the southern coast the coast of Aceh that strategic position with the port and maritime economicbase in the Aceh province. Its territory bordering Southeast Aceh Regency to the North, in the South with Indonesia Ocean,on the West by Southwest Aceh district, and on the East by District Subulussalam and Singkil.
Tapaktuan Town known as Dragon which derives from a legend of Princess Dragon and master of Tapa the oral historysociety hereditary. People mentioned the South Aceh as the Dragon. In fact, as you enter this city, roughly one hundredmeters to the East of South Aceh Regent Office will then see a picture of a dragon right in the walls of the side of the road.
Legend of the Dragon tells the story of a pair of Dragon males and females that inhabit the Gulf (Tapaktuan). The two wereexpelled from China for not having children. A second Dragon when it found a beautiful baby girl floating in the ocean and then maintained lovingly. Get the baby dewasalah be a pretty girl who is loved by the Dragon.
A when out a ship of Asralanoka in South India where 17 years ago his King lost a baby to drift off into the sea. The King recognized the girl as the missing baby and was about to ask for a pair of the dragon to return it. However, a pair of Dragon refused giving rise to fights in the ocean and harass a large bodied ascetics and dwells in the cave of Kalam, that isknown as Tapa.
Master penance and asceticism being piqued soon breaks a pair of fights with the Dragon King of the Kingdom of Asralanoka. Master Penance asked a pair of dragons to return the girl to her parents. However, both the Dragon refusesand instead challenge the Lord of Tapasya to fight. There was a fight in the sea where the two Dragon lost by master Tapaand any girl was returned to her parents. The girl then gets its nickname as ' the Dragon ' and Daughter back with her parents but they do not return to the Kingdom of Asralanoka but instead chose settled in coastal. Their existence is believed to be the forerunner society Tapaktuan.
The male Dragon slain due to the blow wand Tuan Tapa. His body was destroyed and scattered the blood spilling andspreading Redden soil, rocks, hills, and also sea water. The heart and the body of the Dragon pieces into a black heart-shaped rocks that are currently visible imprint on the side of the beach (read: known as Itam). Dragon's blood was frozeninto cubes (read: known as Red Rock). So did the rest of the footrest Host Tapa appear visible, sticks and sorbannya were also petrified black a few hundred meters from the two feet of the other on the edge of the beach.
Meanwhile, the female Dragon who saw pasanganya was killed immediately fled back to China. Previously, he rages withsplitting the island into two (read: now Puau two) shattering porandakan the largest island to be 99 small islands scattered.(read: the current cluster of the island known as the island of Aceh Singkil Regency Lots).
After the incident, the master of the Tapa is sick, a week later died in Ramadan the Islamic year 4. His body was buried near mount Lights, exactly in front of the mosque Gampong Tuo, Padang, Padang Village, sub-district of Tapaktuan. Up to this point human sacred Tomb that pilgrims visited in and out of the country. His grave had undergone reconstruction several times during the reign of the Netherlands East Indies. In 2003, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) ever make a pilgrimage tothe tomb of the Lord of Tapa.
You can read the whole legend of South Aceh community in a book, "the legend of Tapaktuan and the story of DragonsKeep Baby King" written Daruk Qutni Ch, published 2002. The book was ever winning three in Reading Fiction Book WritingContest of 1996.
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