How Things Are Going in Banda Aceh After Great Struck of Tsunami

With the Tsunami swept over Aceh in 2004 , many lives were taken and left huge physical or even mental damages to survived victim, moreover it has put a critical chaos toward the enviroment and spreading corpses everywhere that could be poisonous to have staying around.  In some way this didn't drag down the Acehnese people any farther, but led them to incredible recoveration.

Along the help of international humanity care (WHO, UNICEF) and some tamed elephants as the carriage of garbage removement, Aceh's environments have greatly made huge progress of neutralization. No later than an age did Aceh fully recovered even in some critical areas that unbelievably wrecked, As the time pass by, few corpses were still left which need to be evacuated.

Few tamed elephants during their works

A very dramatic moment in this terrible disaster was there are few places that remainly untouched even by a single wave, the great mosque "Masjid Raya Baiturrahman" survived the earthquake with slight damage taken. During Tsunami, the waves couldn't reach even to the mosque's hall which becomes place that everyone seek for to save their life. The mosque served as the temporary shelter for survived victims for the next few weeks. On the present days "Masjid Raya Baiturrahman" is known as the savior of alive victims and becomes the most iconic places of must-visit place during your holiday in Banda Aceh. Furthermore It has become the pride of entire Aceh.

Today's view of Grand Mosque Baiturrahman