Medan, Indonesia Travel Blogs

Day 59: Into the Wild!
Jul 20, 2008 (7 photos)

... in the Garden Inn, what turned out to be one of the cheapest and best lodges in the village. Score another win for the Indonesia section of the guidebook (the Malaysian section has been much more hit&miss thus far.) It was a basic room of four walls, ...

Happy Birthday Mummy!
Apr 23, 2009 (1 photos)

Happy Birthday to my Mum back in England. Lots of love from Tom, Charlie, Percy and my afternoon Kindergarten 2 class xxx

The Banda Brothers
Jan 26, 2006

Our next flight we depart the plane outside, which is always the first indication we are in another land. As I step off the plane I am overwhelmed by all the familiar aromas of this place....cigarettes, incencse and body odor. Awwwwhhhh...I love this ...

Indonesia
Oct 17, 2007

... (no obvious station) filled with shady characters, a ludicrous number of cars and minivans and dirty food stalls. I was new to Indonesia but it doesn't take a genius to work out that in a place like this, whenever you are approached by someone shouting ...

Danau Toba - Medan
May 31, 2003

... the honour of Asia's least desirable place. Our excuse for a guesthouse is, on both a positive and negative note, opposite Medan's main attraction - its Mosque. The negatives outweigh the positives however as one sight of it was enough for me and now I ...

Medan - Sanur (Bali)
May 31, 2003

Day 118 - Medan - Sanur (Bali) Shunning airlines like Awair ('Striving To Be One Of The Best') and Merpati ('It's Merpati And I'll Fly If I Want To') we went for the even cheaper option of flying with Mandala (no strapline - not even trying to be any ...

Onto Medan...in a roundabout sort of way!!!
Apr 16, 2005 (1 photos)

... and believe me my brain hurt afterwards! Paul just sat there laughing as ususal! All in all there's not really alot to see in Medan but the city has a great feel to it and lots of lovely people!!! Our first island in Indonesia and we had the bug!!!!

Don't bother being a tourist in these parts ...
Oct 10, 2002 (4 photos)

Don't bother... Being a tourist in these parts makes you some thing of a celebrity. Every 5 meters someone will shout "Hello friend" or "Hello Mr." If you stop anywhere (even to eat) there will be someone trying valiantly to strike up a conversation. ...

Aug 05, 2009
Aug 5, 2009 (7 photos)

Medan
Apr 4, 2009 (4 photos)

Bukit Lawangista tulimme bussilla takaisin Medaniin, jossa hyppasimme ensimmaiseen 64-numeroiseen bemoon. Jaimme pois kaupungin toisella laidalla heti, kun naimme KFC:n kyltin. Kana&riisi-aterian jalkeen otimme taksin Asean International ...

Dirty City, tomorrow = monkeys.
Jun 19, 2009

... customs officer so he could see enough to finish the process, haha.   We took a bus from the port to Medan, a dirty polluted and busy city. We both had no desire to stay here overnight but Bukit Lawang, our next destination, is about ...

Medan
Apr 2, 2009 (6 photos)

Saavuimme jalleen uuteen paikkaa iltamyohalla ja pimeassa, kuten tavaksi nayttaa jo muodostuneen. Air Asian lento Kuala Lumpurista oli muutenkin siirtynyt tunnilla ostohetken aikataulua myohemmaksi ja nyt kone oli tasta uudestakin ajasta puoli tuntia ...

Medan
Mar 18, 2006

... problems due to the Bali bombings] on themselves." Wow what balls! Scuse me, scuse me. Man with big balls coming through. In Indonesia a lot of the locals want to talk to you. I must have heard the question "Where are you coming from?" (sic) about a ...

Dzien 2 Bukit Lawang
Jun 12, 2009 (4 photos)

Pobudka o 8:00. O 10-tej mamy spotkanie z Antonem z Tamasaya Indonesia, ktory ma byc naszym kierowca na Sumatrze. Przed spotkaniem schodzimy na sniadanie, bardzo urozmaicone od tostow i dzemu po kuchnie indonezyjska..... Czas wniknac w kulture i wprowadzic ...

Dzien 1 Przylot do Medan
Jun 11, 2009 (1 photos)

... nas cisnienia, nawet nie bylo wiekszego problemu z przelamywaniem chceci snu bo w Warszawie byla godzina 16-ta. Wyladowalismy w Medan o 22-giej czasu miejscowego. Lotnisko podobne do wielu w Azji, kameralne, bez karuzeli na bagaze. Panowie pakuja bagaz na ...

medan - 3. groeschti stadt vo indonesia
Sep 25, 2008 (4 photos)

all de schlechte kritike zum trotz hemer medan als zimli agnehm empfunde.. es isch e typischi asiatischi grossstadt: laermig zwar und hektisch, aber voll ok wemer noed wott lang bliibe. d luet sind wieder total lieb und interessiert xi, vorallem de ...

Sumatra
Dec 12, 2005 (3 photos)

... spend money if I tried, for their caital city I thought I would have been able to sit in a decent cafe at least!! In Medan, an intimidating sparwling heap of a city we somehow managed to get ourselves on a bus to Bukit Lawang, we were relieved not to have ...

Barbed wire and Orangutans!
Dec 12, 2004 (9 photos)

... of bronzing the bodies (or not in Guys case - his words not mine) in Thailand, and we noticed that Sumatra (a big island in Indonesia) wasn't too far away so we decided to give it a try. When we booked our flights back in England, our travel agent told us ...

Don't ever visit Medan!
Aug 28, 2006

... comments on our travel blog. It made us really happy to know that our close ones back home are reading this. We flew into Medan Monday night after a 1 hr flight delay. Landing in Medan we had to get our VOA (visa on arrival) for 30 days before going ...

Mad on Medan?
Jul 27, 2009

After a strenuous time in Berastagi, we spent our final 2 days in Indonesia in Medan. We always try and point out the positives about each place we visit, so here is the blog about Medan. You can get good Indian food there, the end! Perhaps that’s a ...

Lake Toba and Samosir Island
Jul 3, 2007 (5 photos)

... had to go with my best friend and her mom. We flight from Banda Aceh to Medan in the morning, after that we have rent car from Polonia, Medan Airport and go to Parapat, the town so close with Lake Toba. We need more than 4 hours  by car to get our ...

Going Ape in Bukit Lawang
Aug 25, 2009 (12 photos)

... we were meeting Muhdi and his colleague. We set off for the trek along with Christian, a German guy doing an internship in Medan, and Hannah, a Scottish girl who is almost at the end of a 6 month stint of travelling around Asia.  It turned out that ...

It's Orang-Utan Time in Bukit Lawang
Jun 8, 2009 (25 photos)

Outside of Sumatra, when you tell people that you are going to Sumatra they say "oh, to see the orang-utans, right?". I guess it is the main tourist highlight of this huge and diverse island. I had heard a lot of negative feedback about this ...

Today has been, without a doubt, the craziest day
Aug 30, 2009

... in India...after today I would say that KL is as western as London or Madrid!!   Our plane touched down in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia at approx 11.10am local time and we were greeted by a hoard of taxi drivers clambering to escort us to their vehicle. ...

Maimoon Palace in Medan
Oct 6, 2008

... the building. The Maimoon Palace was the legacy of Deli Sultanate. Maimoon palace was located in Brigjen Katamso Street, Medan. Sultan Deli, Sultan Makmun Al Rasyid Perkasa Alamsyah, had established this palace. The designer was an Italia architect, and ...

smooth boat and polluted city
Dec 15, 2006 (2 photos)

So as i was saying coming to indonesia is a bonus.. i had never planned to but i got the notion to come after reading up more about a place in sumatra while i was on the slow boat in Laos. Anyway i got the ferry at one and met an english couple and an ...

Medan, Sumatra
Aug 9, 2009 (6 photos)

Medan would be our last stop in Indonesia as it would be from here that we would fly back to Singapore for a couple of days before heading home.  We have a few pictures, but for the most part Medan is a big city with very little of tourist interest.& ...

Madness in Medan
Sep 29, 2006 (3 photos)

... jumped for joy when we saw land! We have vowed never to put ourselves through that again and will be flying out of Indonesia. On arrival at Belawan port, we were escorted straight through the crowd to the customs desk to buy our visas, then escorted ...

Medan
Feb 22, 2009 (6 photos)

... plan is to head from North to South through Indonesia. Sumatra is the largest island of the 17,500 islands that make up Indonesia and Medan is the third largest city in Sumatra. Medan is a big dirty smelly busy town but after the cleanliness and order of ...

Medan and Goodbyes
Sep 29, 2008

... and we are on a bus to Medan by 9:30am. 5hrs later we get off at Amplas Bus Terminal which is 7kms south of Medan. The usual offers of good, cheap hotels but expensive taxi rides to get there greet as they do at every bus terminal throughout South ...