This mosque is located at the centre of town. It was built by the Dutch a while ago and the locals say that when the Tsunami hit, the wave curled over the mosque which left it completely untouched. During the Tsunami, the locals sought refuge here.
This is what the locals called "the ship ontop of the house" and it's really just that. During the Tsunami, this boat flung right ontop of a house, completely shaved off the ceiling and roof and stayed there. The weird thing was, the the fishing boat only chipped the edge of the next door neighbour's roof corner.
This is an electric generator tank of a ship that was flung 5 km to land. I couldn't take a picture of the whole thing because it was just that massive. The Indonesian government promised to try and drag this back to see just because this thing is placed right in town and takes quite some space...but of course, they never delivered on their promise (insert shock, horror) so now it's just kind of stuck there. The locals tried at one stage to try and pull it out to see themselves but it didn't work due to...no resources.
Nearby the Tsunami Museum is this plaque which shows flags of all the countries that contributed to rebuilding Aceh after the Tsunami. The size of the flag shows how much they contributed, in terms of man-power and money donations. Of course the Indonesian government didn't like this concept because they contributed nothing so it was agreed that this plaque could be hung up if the Indonesian flag was 20 times bigger than the rest of the flags. The locals kind of laugh at this because they say that the Indonesian flag is the biggest and they contributed the least.
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