Padang Padang
Travel Blogs from Padang Padang, Indonesia
Diving and motorbiking on the east coast
... Oz (and having heard that getting to the Gillies takes about a day by ferry-bus-ferry) we were considering just staying put in Padang Bai and arranging some diving in the area. We found Padang Bai to be a pleasant little seaside resort. Cozy hotels and ...
Day 4 - Sweet Home Padang Bai
Wow! Only day 4. Feels like we've been here for ages. Tim was the one feeling a bit grumpy this morning. Probably cos we didn't yet know how or when we were getting to our next destination and also we both realised how much shit we really do have! After ...
Padang Bai
So we jumped off the ferry and found a small cafe 4 a bite to eat and a guest house just down the road litrally to rest our weery limbs. A stop off town ferry port only a tiny place but relaxing and just what we needed to break up the journey from ...
Randomness in Padang
... we wandered to the bustling market, where we received a lot of attention for being the only boulay (foreigners) there. We ate a delicious padang (see pic) meal (because you have to in Padang!), and then grabbed a beer and sat outside our hotel to drink it ...
Papa Chili's
... who happens to be from Nias and kindly offered to help us get there. He also just happened to have plans to go back to Nias from Padang the same day as us, so we chipped in on a rented van with him, his friend Tim (also from Nias), and an Australian guy ...
A Good Night's Rest After Six Hours Journey
... only thing in our mind was to get to the hotel and get some good rest after dinner. Padang was just a simple city with no buildings higher than two stories, except for a few international hotels as there ...
I am back
... nbsp;Thank Allah that the locals are the sort of people I want to hang with. Marijuana carries the death penalty in Indonesia but magic mushrooms are legal and marketed like MacDonalds. It's like the crazy situation in New Zealand where everyone takes LSD ...
Crippled
... at my foot and it was already the size of a tamal. Holy motherfucking shit, that was fast. The plane landed in Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia and I could hardly walk. Pain and frustration were pushing me very close to tears, but the friendliness of all the ...
Bali, the first time around
... town that we'd be getting our onward boat from) and while we stopped in the town of Ubud after our bus broke down. Padang Bai is mainly quaint. It's a little town in a little bay with big ferrys that go to Lombok. We didn't do ...
Jan 09, 2011
A Day Tour Of Padang City
... to us. We visited a larger outlet on the day we arrived for breakfast before visiting the Anai Valley Falls. Lunch was typical Padang Food with the usual array of dishes. After that, it was an hours drive to the airport and we dismissed the ...
Sunday at the seaside :)
On the night of my Birthday, which I celebrated in kuta with my couchsurfers friends, Liam arrived in Bali. We spent about a week with Fikri, Kas and Jon traveling around Bali and having fun :) Today we went to the seaside... ...
Surfing in Bali
... thing with surfing is that the memory of the one good wave is enough to bring to back for a thrashing years later! I surfed at Padang Padang on the southeast aspect of Bali. In the wet season (which it is right now), it’s a ...
Exploring Sumatra with Joe
... coastal mountain range and through numerous villages, rice paddies, tea plantations and agricultural fields. Like anywhere in Indonesia, the roads were filled with numerous random obstacles: potholes that could swallow a tire, ducks, chickens, ...
Culture here I come...
That's the diving finished for this trip. Had my last 2 dives today at Padang Bai and now I'm looking forward to some hiking, cooking, dancing and culture in Ubud for my last week. I fly home a week tomorrow and I think by then I'll be really ready to ...
Pimped Up Padang
... agree. We walked to our hostel down almost pitch black streets with open manholes in the middle of the pavements Padang appeared to be a nondescript bustling Indonesian town with little to differentiate it from any other The following morning we ...
Bali
... afternoon, we visited a temple built on the site of a natural spring and just below the home of Sukarno, the former President of Indonesia. The temple was made up of a series of squares, one within the other. The outer square was open to all. Once you ...
Dreamland beach
... , the southern limestone peninsula of Bali. It is a surf breaks and with some breathtaking beaches as Dreamland, Impossibles and Padang Padang. Almost in line we drove until Dreamland beach where we spent the afternoon pampering ourselves with massages, ...
to west sumatra- around padang
... of the ride with the help of our dear friend, Ambien. Met our first fellow American traveler, a guy from Seattle. On arrival in Padang, we were instantly reminded of Medan and how crazy these big cities can be. The four of us (Carson, Marc, Lena and ...
Padang
... every nite ive been there. Anyway got a few hours sleep in between my mosque wake up call and jumped on the early bus heading for Padang the main city on the west sumatran coast a couple of hours soth of bukittinggi. Once i hit the airport i got rid of me ...
Besichtigungstour und Reise in den Osten
Beim Besitzer des Bella Houses hatten wir am Vorabend eine Privattour nach Padangbai gebucht. Das coole daran war, dass wir nach unserem Wuenschen Stopps bei den verschiedenen Sehenswuerdigkeiten im Land einbauen konnten. Der erste Stopp waren ...
Trekking Day 3
Day 3 starts early with chickens and Cockerels crowing at the dawn. This is not a good start as I had no good sleep whatsoever. I go for a swim to wake me up and then a shower before breakfast. After, Ed explains that we are going to walk for 3.5hrs ...
Unberechenbare Strassen / Incalculable roads
Destination 148: km88'787 Auch wenn kaum Sehenswuerdigkeiten in Sumatra auf dem Programm stehen und wir direkt nach Sueden wollen, die Reise gestaltet sich wegen den unberechenbaren Strassenschaeden sowie den unzaehligen Kurven sehr langsam. ...
Day 1 of the Trekking
... . I am converted and will be getting cut throat razor shaves allot more. At 2pm the bus sets off and 2hrs later we arrive in Padang for food, toilet break and to wait for the overnight boat to take us to Siberut. On the way I get a couple of ...
Crater Lakes and Earthquakes.
... of the crater for a fantastic view, but our Mt. Marapi legs had only just recovered. So we jumped on a bus to Padang, our final destination in Indonesia. We had booked flights on the 20th of March to K.L. in order to organise our Indian Visas. The bus ...
Good Bai Bali
Back on the Backpacker circuit now, leaving those package places behind. Chatted to a fair few peeps on the bus, including a load of Brits (unusual for Bali) Two of them had been travelling for five months as well, and had similar thoughts to us about ...

