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Medan Slideshow
Medan
Travel Blogs from Medan, Indonesia
Medan
... at IHF and also to leave Indonesia. I was reminded why I wanted to return to Indonesia in the first place. Apart from the good food and the amazing sights I left Indonesia with a lot of new friends and thoughts about when I would be able to return ...
Medan
It was nice to be back in Indonesia. I spent a couple of days chilling in Medan enjoying good food and adjusting my palate back to hot and spicy food before heading north to Banda Aceh. One of the universities had sent their student onto the streets to ...
The Straits of Malacca
... with the forces of nature to create flooding and misery for people and animals alike. Corruption exists on a spectacular scale in Indonesia along with an unhealthy amount of terrorism and the odd natural disaster. The tsunami on 26th December 2004 ( which ...
Trip to Medan with my family
... 2 hari gue bersama nyokap & adek gue mengunjungi rumah dinas bokap gue di TASBIH (Taman Setiabudi Indah/ kompleks perum setiabudi di Medan, jln, Chrysant blok D39). Kebetulan gue libur kuliah dan adek gue libur sekolah. So, kita skalian berwisata juga ke ...
Posting a Box Home…
... the early 20th century by the Dutch colonists. It is a huge white edifice - impossible to miss as it sits opposite the Bank of Indonesia building (which used to be a hotel). My Dream Hotel, where we were staying, is about 1.6 km from the post office and ...
Welcome to the jungle part 3
Continued from ; Welcome to the jungle part 2 Waking up in a tent in the Sumatran jungle is a good start to any day as far as I am concerned. We hike to a small waterfall and climb up. Jumping into a deep turquoise pool for an early morning swim. The ...
Fear of Flying
... . I have about an hour to wait for my plane to Bali, where I will spend a week's holiday relaxing and experiencing more of Indonesia's cultural diversity. But no matter how often I fly, my nerves get fired up. Especially now since I have a fresh ...
Sumatra Impressions
... I had come to see, plus countless other animals, the jungle is fast disappearing under economic pressures. On arrival in Medan, I had expected a big, modern international airport like Changi, but found instead a much smaller building, similar to a ...
SOS
... of volunteers. Now a registered charity, it performs dedicated voluntary work in the face of the following hostile trends : Habitat Loss ; Indonesia has one of the highest tropical forest loss rates in the world. The rate of deforestation is showing no ...
Canada Day, Medan style
... all the songs. She even broke out her special 12-string for the occasion, and sang songs by Iwan Fals, the Bob Dylan of Indonesia. The son of a military family, he rebelled against his father's corrupt politics during the 70s, even going to jail for his ...
Same Same, But Different
... same food, and hang out with the same kinds of people? It all gets so boring and repetitive. I came to Indonesia partly because nobody I knew had ever been there. No hordes of tourists sporting cargo pants and tank tops, pot bellies and ...
Roots & Wings
Why put down roots, when my heart has wings? My heart is happiest when in flight. It is a bird that flies from tree to tree. Let the trees have roots. My heart belongs to the forest. ~ Wendy ...
The road ahead
... are flagged down and with several tow ropes, the bus is dragged back onto its wheels. We continue on to Medan as before. Because this is Indonesia, the Police will never file a report about a passenger bus on two wheels. The driver will never be ...
Yey, this is actually where we are right now!
... our blog is actually an accurate depiction of where we are traveling right now. Yey. The only things I can tell you about Medan are that there is a very big mosque that is very beautiful near our hotel. Also it is incredibly loud at prayer ...
Banda Aceh to Medan
... which involved her with a torch and me with my shoe playing Wackamoley on the cockroaches that lived under our seats. Who said Indonesia public transport was boring? The reason why we had cockroaches living under our seat was all the garbage in the bus - ...
Mati Lampu
Mati lampu...&*%$! Pardon my French, but after a few weeks in Medan, mati lampu can get really annoying. Translated from bahasa Indonesia, mati = dead and lampu = lamp. Put them together and you have a major pain in the butt. Mati ...
Another long traveling day
Well I promised myself that I would not fly in Indonesia as they have such a bad safety history and many of their airlines are not allowed into International airports for exactly this ...
World Life
World Life the jungle is full green so beautiful the leaf. the sun give it food. the tree. the coming water. our hearts are like the ...
Bule!
... us, we'd make a real sight. We've even taken to pointing back at the pointers and shouting back, "orang Indonesia!" which usually gets a good laugh, especially from the becak driver, because Indonesians are essentially a good natured lot. So ...
Dirty Medan
... the next day. But I thought we have to come back via here so will update this section if we see anything worth mentioning... Medan again So we were back in Medan and chose to stay in Garuda Citra hotel, this was a mistake, despite having larger ...
The Cigarette Olympics
... fun. I was on the back of some guy’s motorbike, and I’d previously told him I was hoping to get the bus back to Medan – he kindly told me this left in 15 minutes, just to add a time limit to the situation I got the last seat on the bus. ...
Minging Medan but with Sarah's super day
... Lush. And to top it all off, we had Pizza Hut- dipalicious! So all-in-all, it was a wicked day (despite being in Medan) and I felt very spoilt after having a wonderful birthday. Thursday 26th: Up early after a late night, we grab a becak, cramming all ...
En route back to Penang
... twenty minutes of his latest movie over and over again... I realise I`m in the middle of an enormous table of water from Medan in Sumatra back en route to Penang in Malaysia by a loacl ferry that should hold 90 but is actaully carrying several times that ...
Sumatra
... found in European mountain regions mixed in with Indonesian style architecture. The one thing I noted was the large (for Indonesia) 500 and 600cc European motorbikes with sidecars used for public transportation. Some of these bikes were held together ...
The Canibal King`s Dinner Table
Indonesia, Sumatra, Lake Toba, Ambarita, 22-o2-2009. I leave the quiet foreigner`s enclave of Tuk Tuk and walk the 5 kilometer to the pretty village of Ambarita enjoying the typical smell of pine trees and the singing of birds. Wooden houses, ...
The Black Foot story
Malasia, Penang, Buttersworth, 01-03-2009. As usual when I stay overnight in Penang I lodge at the Li Peng Hotel, cheap but you really get what you pay for, spaciouos rooms though but noicy with the Chinese channels on TV at the highest volume all day ...
Adios to Lake Toba
... of the tourist district in Medam. The Meshid Raya is also the only real place of interest in an otherwise very boring Medan unless you fancy walking around traffic congested dusty streets full with people, risking the health of your lungs breathing in all ...
Peter Nit Noi Chang
Indonesia, Lake Toba, Samosir Island, Tuk Tuk. 20-02-2009. Every year Peter comes to Asia for about five/six months, big and fat he is and somewhere in his mid sixties, an aura of fat sigar smoke mixed with an unhealthy bodily odour, rancid and salty ...