"I have traveled a lot to all over the world, but I strongly feel that no landscape is more beautiful than Maninjau... It’s so picturesque that it invites us to see the nature behind such an incredible view...” (Buya Hamka in Kenang-kenangan 70 Tahun Buya Hamka – Memoir of 70 years Buya Hamka).

The renowned ulemma and cultural elite wrote about the natural beauty of Minang in 1970-s. Maninjau is just one of the so many places with green nature, dense forest and green hills, and waterfall that present the music of nature without interruption in the area of West Sumatra. But, apparently such a natural beauty does not automatically become tourism industry site. It’s not that West Sumatra is not included as tourist destination both for locals and foreigners, but the tourists are not as many as other areas like Bali and Lombok. The promising potential of its natural tourism is just a material for novelists and painters