The Legend of Surabaya

A long time ago on east Java there were two strong animals, Sura and Baya. Sura was a shark and
Baya was a crocodile. Actually they were friend, but when they were hungry, they were very greedy
and did not want to share their food. They fought for it and never stop.

One day Sura and Baya were looking some food, but they did not want to share and they fought
again. After several hours Sura and Baya had plan to stop their fought, Sura live and look for food in
sea, and Baya live and look for food. On land.

But one day, Sura went to the land and look for food in the river. Baya was angry when he knew that
Sura was broke the promise. Than Sura and Baya fought again and finally Sura was gave up and he
went back to the sea.

People than always talked about the fought between Sura and Baya. They named the place of the
fought as Surabaya, it’s from Sura the shark and Baya the crocodile. People also put their fought as
the symbol as Surabaya city.