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Berastagi Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Berastagi, Indonesia
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ooh ooh aah - Jungle Trek....
This is a top pick! We decided to come back down to Indonesia with Kate and Darren in search of the wild orangutans and to see Lake Toba. We had been told many good things about the lake last time we were in Bukittinggi but the 18+ hours bus journey complete with sick bags ...
Hotel Nightmare
This is a top pick! Berastiga is probably most notable for it's proximity to two relatively active volcanoes, Sibayak, 2100 meters high and Sinabung, 2400 meters high. Sibayak is constantly smoking and, after laying dormant for over 400 years, Sinabung, in Sept of ...
volcano
This is a top pick! Spent the first afternoon in Beragstagi just walking around the main street, checking out the sights there. I like Beragstagi, its a pretty, quaint little place, where in the evening the main street fills up with food vendors selling all kinds of ...
singkil and the 99 islands
This is a top pick! Ooh getting to Pulau Banyak was a mission, involving many many bus journeys, feeling like a tit several times and often wondering where i was going to end up. First i was ripped off by the guys from my guest house for the short motorbike ride to the bus ...
Bukit Lawang - Berastagi
This is a top pick! ... odd comments and plenty of smiles enables you to be both the most interesting and the funniest person on earth. We came to Berastagi to climb Gunung Sibayak, an active volcano, and while the number of tourists is low, the quantity of Indonesians is not ...
when they say hot springs, they mean hot!
This is a top pick! After a long, rejuvenating sleep, i ventured out into the village to check things out. The village is a tiny, tiny picturesque jungle community and the people are super friendly, with the children literally running out of their houses upon sighting me ...
Berastagi: A tourist town
... power plant, which produces electricity from geothermal vapors. Gundaling HillBerastagi also had Gundaling Hill which located only 3 Km from Berastagi. This hill offered a beautiful garden that was suitable as a spot to relax or to do some sports. ...
kutacane - bsuech binere batak family
ueber stock und stei, dur stroessli mit viel kurve, grosse schluchte und eme fahrer wo vorzueglich indonesische 90er jahr techno kassettli glosed het, simer vo medan nach kutacane gholperet. 9 stund schuettelbecher fahrt hemer muesse durestah. :) e ...
Berastagi...The Town Of Fruits
... . Right after lunch, we headed to the hotel. The driver took charge of the checking in procedures. Actually, the usual temperature in Berastagi is around 10 degree Celsius, however, on this day, it was hot. I was really disappointed. I was hoping for cold ...
Dzien 3 Spanie w dzungli
O godzinie 9:00 przy restauracji umowieni jestesmy na trekking. Dzisiaj spanie bedzie w namiotach w srodku jungli. Juz sie nie moge doczekac :) Tymczasem 7:00 rano i pada deszcz :( Ale jaki deszcz. Jestesmy po sniadaniu. American Brekfast. Tosty, ...
Good Bye Darling....An Interesting Legend
... for check out. Right after check out, our first destination was to Gundaling Hill. This hill is within close proximity of the Berastagi markets but there is a short ascend. Alternatively, you could also plan to go on horse back from the town centre. The ...
Jul 27, 2009
Morning Glory
I woke up to the sound of Chris and Pineapple having sex. Not very much unlike the sound of those two orangutangs in Bukit Lawang mating. Pineapple, a girl from Norway, was certainly enjoying it and making sure I knew. It all led me to thinking about the ...
Meeting our red-headed cousins
... quite far away and surrounded by tourists so, while still good, it didn't compare to the trek! As we didn't have long in Indonesia we booked seats on a minibus to Lake Toba for the following morning. While we we're very sad to leave Bukit Lawang, we took ...
In the jungle, the mighty jungle......
The rain tapping on to the roof of our wooden bungalow had kept us awake most of the night and needless to say we weren't please to find it was still raining when we awoke the next morning. The guides, Yan and Menza (we'd only met that morning) weren't ...
Northern Sumatra
Leaving Singpore, Brian and I headed back into the developed world with a trip to Northern Sumatra. At the time of writing, there is severe flooding in the region, which will have undoubted worsened Sumatra's already difficult position with its tourism ...
Simarjurunjung...A Beautiful Hill Station
... , everywhere along the streets. Initially, I thought that it would be similar to the one which I had tried in Batam Island, Indonesia whereby the bananas were coated with cottage cheese and deep fried. Hmmm I really missed that. With ...
One of the best days ever!
Hello again. Spent the last couple of days in Bukit Lawang in Sumatra. It is a small place that is right along side the jungle. It is also the place on the Island where Orangutans can be found. After we got there and checked in, we looked in to going on ...
Dzien 5 Gunung Sibayak
Pobudka 8:00. Pogoda dobra, swieci slonce. Jest jeszcze mokro po nocnej zlewie ale powinno przeschnac. Temperatura wreszcie europejska, ok 20 stopni. Szybkie przepakowanie na trek i czas na sniadanie. Wulkan Sibayak jest wygasly, w kalderze mozna sie ...
Dzien 4 Berastagi
... o 7:00. Kucharz juz rozpalil palenisko i gotowal wode. Poczestowal mnie kawa. Dzisiejszy dzien bedzie luzniejszy. Konczy sie noclegiem w Berastagi. Chwile po mnie wstaje Ali G i Baba. Makaki na pobliskich drzewach schodza sie juz na sniadanie. Baba na ...
Welcome to the jungle
The moment we had been waiting for, jungle trekking. Carson, Ali G (guide), Ayoop (guide assitant), and I set out from the village of Bukit Lawang, crossed the river on a rickety wooden bridge and headed up through the rubber tree plantation into the ...
Our first time...
... state of the transport infrastructure, we opted for one last stop on our way back to Medan, and arrived in the temperate Berastagi on Thursday evening, ready for our very first volcano ascent up Mount Sibayak. We headed out for dinner, donning ...
ketambe - gunung leuser national park
will mir in dschungel und noed inen zoo hend welle, hemer bukit lawang si la und sind uf ketambe. das isch de 2ti igang in gunung leuser national park, aber viel weniger touristisch. ein tag nach areis ischs, zeme mitem till us duetschland, ufen ...
Lake Toba
... main road is enjoyable to travel and very quiet, absent of the belching fumes and constant roar of traffic that accompany most Indonesia roads. Tuk Tuk has the air of a prosperous bygone era. All the bars and restaurants are completely empty and there ...
rovte, Buda in guzva
... sem ugotovila, da si zelim obiskati tudi Bali, kjer prevladuje hinduizem (ki je izjemno podoben budizmu). Pot nas je peljala naprej v Berastagi, kjer sva dozivela pravi majceni sok in padec na realna tla. Nobenega turista (no ja - eden, ki se je zdel ...
Happy Berastagi to you
... won’t seem long until we sat at a desk and back to real world again. We also passed another significant date in Berastagi – Paul’s 21st (again) birthday! To celebrate he decided we should climb up the near by volcano, Sibayak. The day ...
Twin peaks
... in mysterious ways sometimes. And, of course, I was flattered, so I bought a bag of passion fruit, for which Berastagi is famous throughout Indonesia. Later we feasted at one of the street stalls that sprang up on the main road. At 3pm the pavement was ...
Berastagi
... Gunung Sibayak. Gunung Sibayak is an active volcano 2094m above sea level which is just a few miles from Berastagi. This volcano is one of the most accessible in Indonesia as it is possible to climb it without a guide. We got a mini bus to the start of ...
We're in indonesia now in northern sumatra ...
We're in Indonesia now, in northern Sumatra. We've decided to attempt our first ever volcano climb - Gungung Sibayak - a 2094 metre high smoking volcano. It would be a 7km hike to the top, up a steep and slippery path. We equipped ourselves with warm ...
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