What Did I Find In These Dutch Ruins!?
i am right here, Api hello there from beautiful Banda Neira, it's a beautiful place here i have to say what we're gonna do today is we're gonna head to Neira island we're going to go over there because that's kind of where all the action is it's the most populated island that's where the big fort is that's where the homes of the vice president Hatta, his exiled home is located so we're gonna go over there and do a little exploring today so let's do it Antho is over there waiting on me right now okay yes do i need to go between roads do i need no no no no yes by my self. okay thank you you're welcome he's like do i need to go with you today i'm like no i'm okay. don't worry about me always seeing weird things here are we able to enter? maybe after okay ok we'll be back and to join us today is Mr Rey. hello so i met Rey yesterday when i went and had lunch i was in a department store and he said hey what's up man what are you doing uh what are you doing here blah blah blah speaks really good english he's from the island he said he used to be a tour guide before the pandemic hit so i said sounds like a great guy to show me around the island a little bit so first place we're going to go to is the big fort, fort Belgica, and we'll probably come back here this is the vice president's home the place where he was exiled in 1936 until 1942 when the Japanese came and occupied the island or occupied Indonesia and so we'll be back we'll be back this is the jail? okay and the jail is used now right yeah okay yeah so here you have the modern-day jail right here i probably don't want to get too close to that in film because they probably tell me just to move on get out move on okay we're good all right do you have gasoline? okay we need gasoline hello so we just stopped here you can see obviously the Dutch influence here all the buildings here or not all of them, a lot of them during colonial times, this was a nobleman's home oh a nobleman's home? okay so the rich and the elites lived here yeah okay interesting it's still in really good condition for the most part, the roof is, the ceiling is kind of caving in there but that's pretty cool the noblemen or the rich people all the rich people have a home like this the four pillars? yeah in the front.
if a home has four pillars like that, (it means a rich person lives there) okay so the rich dutchmen lived here huh can we go in here what does this say? i mean, can you summarize? kind of (the meaning) it's a poem it's a poem okay it describes about Banda Island the pride abundant island? yeah (no, describe is what he said, but that's ok) this is a really cool tub right here is this a dutch tub? (lol) yeah wow like a bathtub huge bathtub okay and this is used for somebody's studio wow look at those paintings Gandhi Osama bin laden Eminem over there and then we got charlie chaplin marilyn monroe abraham lincoln i like checking out each room okay this one just has a cat, what's up kitty wow okay you have a nutmeg tree right in the middle of this open courtyard right here and one family would live here? just one family would live here? incredible mr powell scaling lived here look at this place super spooky now but could you imagine what it looked like when it was you know in really really good condition when all the pillars and all the walls were crystal clear really white can i go up there? no, I mean... don't ask just go yeah okay so four pillars right here one two three four i guess that symbolizes that you were wealthy does somebody live here now? does anybody live here now maybe up there no okay so somebody and you can see somebody's clothes hanging up right there i'm guessing maybe that's the master bedroom up there after he's passed away they sold it to who? Mr Des Alwi. okay he wrote a book he was adopted by Hatta right? yeah okay exactly He has a Maulana hotel okay he has the hotel over there okay okay interesting so somebody lives over there? yeah not a lot of people stay here. interesting not stay but i like their like rent or yeah they rent it okay how would you like to say that i live in an old rich nobleman's home really cool really cool and you're right you see the four columns everywhere here there are four columns here there are four columns over there four columns in the front of the house is this locked i guess they are selling nutmeg maybe you can ask the owner about the price for one kilo for nutmeg and mace oh right out here? oh ok so right over here i think they're cracking or they're processing the nutmeg and mace it's right over here i didn't even notice this may I have a look? wow it smells so good look at all this this is it and so now the mace and the nutmeg is already separated? yeah yeah and so what is she looking for here? like she's sorting out some of the nutmeg but is she looking for the bad ones? yeah yeah there are two grades, grade A the best quality and low quality okay so the difference is... different
it's a good quality and that's the bad one okay so she's separating yeah what is she putting in here? the low quality?yeah okay low quality and high quality gotcha for high quality for one kilo and that's the mace, it's really expensive now ok so that's the moneymaker? i wish you could smell that it smells so good so this was it this is why all the Europeans came over here waged war, slaughtered the natives all for this, all to make money at the end of the day and they made a lot of it, they made a lot of it The VOC, The Dutch East Indies Company that was formed in 1603 at its peak was the wealthiest corporation in the history of mankind and it wasn't only backed by nutmeg cloves had a big part to do with it and also all the other spices cinnamon pepper they controlled, or they had a monopoly on tin and other things that you would trade but it was here, it was in Banda where the only nutmeg in the world was produced and that's how the dutch, that's how the VOC got so wealthy and this is a beautiful home wow another dutch style home? no huh this on? i said i want to eat. oh this is your home? yeah oh wow wow not my home my parent's home your parent's home. well your parents have a beautiful home i would take some coffee if you have some thank you starting to sprinkle no no what are these ... Reys got a nice home hello how are you? the youtube girl excuse me.
he wants to be a YouTuber a cool cup another way the VOC made so much money was through the porcelain trade because the Dutch were the only Europeans who had a trade agreement or conducted trade with the japanese I'm sure many Europeans conducted trade with the Chinese but Japan in general specifically japan they were the only ones that had access to japan and it's silk and its porcelain and its spices and everything there and so maybe not spices but anyways they were able to bring a lot of that porcelain back to Europe and make a lot of money Indonesian people like it. what is this? what's it called yeah okay not too sweet but we'll give it a go chewy. sweet. it's not too bad not too bad coconut? yeah it has coconut in there yeah with coconut milk that's chewy that's what the tougher parts are is the rice that's good i like it is it indonesian or from banda or it's from Java it's actually from java. really okay i never saw it in java i like it it's good it's not too sweet actually do you want to drink something? now that's a pretty stylish bike i like that no thank you i just had some coffee feeling good and we just showed up at another beautiful home this one has the four pillars as well i guess indicating that a wealthier person lives here so this one has four pillars too that means a noble a nobleman lived here this one has four pillars not these though.
different huh you're talking about the big pillars okay every time i see four pillars now i want to be like oh rich person lives there i will show to you. okay i think i get it i think i get it though the big pillars we want to make nutmeg jam here but it's closed it's closed yeah okay so we can come back later. okay so the idea is I'm gonna come back maybe tomorrow and we're gonna make a video about the process of making nutmeg jam the first ever from Banda Neira maybe okay it's nice though just cruising around the neighborhoods here in Banda Neira can't do this on foot, thank you Rey and i think tomorrow i'm gonna go spear fishing right? i'm gonna go spear fishing at eight in the morning tomorrow i hope tomorrow morning the weather is really good.
fingers crossed guys fingers crossed we need good weather tomorrow once again if you want i mean good people wherever i go and here you have some more collapsed crumbling wall right here i think this is where the perkanil lived? see i know how to locate there or identify the perkenil houses oh pekenanil cool maybe a perkenil house all right i'll shut up an old rundown abandoned church wow I stopped and ray goes, you want to make a video? yeah these are these are the things that i like to look at it's completely gutted and empty but you can see maybe the altar was up here yeah this has to be where the preacher stood over here wow oh what was that oh chicken pretty pretty creepy pretty creepy i have to say sorry to disturb you cow i'll be on my way yeah i like old abandoned ruins and that kind of stuff so this is the governor's house right here right? and there's an exact uh bigger version of this in Jakarta right? i think he's coughing on his cigarette so i think this is known as the mini the something something mini so they have a bigger one in jakarta okay this is where we are we drove by here when i arrived okay he's a crazy man oh yeah he's a crazy man so be careful huh watch out for him okay i forgot the name Istana Mini, complex istana mini okay so this is where the governor general the head of the voc would live here so like i was saying the VOC was essentially a state within a state and they were sent here to conduct trade and to control the banda islands and to do so, they needed a governor-general they needed somebody uh to overlook to organize to control the military uh all the business dealings in these islands and so they came up with the governor general's position in 1610 and this was the governor general's office right here okay surely this isn't the original one a lot of the buildings including the fort had to be renovated and reconstructed okay i did read a little bit about this yeah he he wrote a note right here before he killed himself so it's probably hard to make out but there's a scratched in it's probably protected now but he wrote a maybe a suicide note right here before killing himself and it's actually a pretty sad poem after i found it later on when i was editing it really gives you an idea of where his mind was at how his heart felt and i read when will come the time that will form my happiness when will the bell strike the hour the moment i will see again the shores of my country the bosom of my family that i love and bless Charles Rumply September 1st 1831 wow 1831 almost 200 years ago so yeah this building is at least 200 years old crazy that's okay i think he walked back here you say this is the dining room? oh there's a step there wow look at this look at this the dining room is over here yeah the kitchen and it just opens up right here and just imagine the gatherings they had here the people that were in and out of this building some of the richest people in the world at the time the most powerful men in europe wow yeah a well over here looks like a shower head maybe a bath or something kind of hard to tell just an empty room kind of spooky okay yeah another just empty room i mean it is kind of unfortunate that they haven't renovated this place and the government or somebody hasn't put money into this place and and renovating it and making it look new again and turning it into an actual attraction and an exhibit where you can come here and maybe see what it used to look like yeah this has to be the toilet again it's still kind of cool to see it this way too the way it naturally just decayed and fell apart okay so he was saying this was the kitchen not sure how well you can see in here looks like maybe there's a stove over there interesting i'm surprised they haven't you know somebody hasn't come in and cleaned it up and made it nice and turned it into like an exhibit and an actual tourist attraction you know now it's just left, like anybody can come in here huh really cool but you know i wish they would come in and get like replica antique furniture and that kind of stuff and surely there's got to be photographs and that kind of stuff that you could you know, that you can go by and fill these rooms up with things that used to be in here but but at the same time this is pretty cool too you know wow any idea about the hole in the wall? do you know why there's a big hole punched in the wall? what that is? yeah that's interesting there's just a huge hole right back here they protected it and they put this glass over it but okay maybe they're just showing you what it's made from that's probably what that's there for they're just showing you it's just a brick uh a brick building maybe okay so the plan now is to get pants for me hey hey this is the traditional market okay i'm going down here so you have a guest house down here? right here nice very nice VOC, the VOC i'm gonna get that tattooed on my chest just kidding wow really cool i love this place hello yeah okay this is the place that does karaoke right? yeah yeah i've seen the people singing and having a party here yeah, last night? and every night every night okay so that's where I'm staying right over there right at the, right at the foot of this huge volcano the Bintang Laut guest house and what do you know the guy that i randomly meet is the owner of this place crazy hello nick it's nice to meet you America america nice to meet you okay you want to take a photo? yeah for sure i think he wants to take a picture yeah thank you thank you you're welcome nice to meet you yes nice to meet you can you show me your guest house a little bit can i see a room or ah now it's still full, it's still full. wow okay we have 11 rooms here with air conditioner with wi-fi and room with tv and also breakfast for two people okay for one night 275 for this room and then first room 350. not bad at all before uh we're going to the wedding party we meet here okay okay start from here, we go together. nice
so i'll be back here tonight awesome i got a pair of pants i think i'm ready to go you get it? i got some pants so and i think they're going to go well with my batik they're kind of an uh a brownish gray color so should be looking good tonight should be looking good and so this is your family shop? is that right? yeah the Toco Galaxy so if you want to find Rey, this is where i'll be at right here is the power still off? in Banda the power yes it's off i think it goes off quite a bit off and on off and on so these must be the b grades and then from here where do they go? yeah uh Surabaya. the last post then from here they go to surabaya and then sent to Europe Europe and also Arab and India and it all starts right here these women picking through them okay all right i'll see you tonight okay alrighty you wake up thinking, you're just going to go see some Dutch ruins, and you wind up at a wedding like I said, this country is always throwing you curveballs they started the wedding at 10, past 10 o'clock feels like i should be at a sporting event, this is crazy getting a little rowdy they get a little rowdy and the guy speaking right now, he's the head of the villagers, is what Rey was saying i think it's our turn, we hand the gift off and say hello to everybody this isn't awkward at all, I've never met these people congratulations congratulations
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