A good place to start a walk tour around Benteng Kuto Besak and Sekanak building herittages .
Lawang Borotan is the West Wing gate of Benteng Kuto Besak (Huge building fortress) with 6mWide and 7mHeight and this gate so special because its about two hundreds year old and made of red brick and mix lime mortar and white eggs for addhesive one brick with another without any steel construction. Top of the gate there a flat platform for guardian of fortress to do patroland watch sorrounding if something strange movement toward the fortress. This platform now full of plantation growth from the seeds that bring by birds and bats.Sad story for most people of Palembang city is The Soultan Mahmud Badaruddin the second was watched and walked for the last time through this gate before leaving his kingdom and being exiled at Ternate around four thausands kilometers to the East side of Indonesia.
We can park cars or motor bike here or for watching atraction here because the plaza is so spacious.
