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Sumatra Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Sumatra, Indonesia
Visiting The Cultural Hub of the Minangkabau's
Pariangan is a small Minangkabau village located in Tanah Datar Regency. The village is located in the lower slopes of Mount Merapi, an active volcano. Despite it's size, the village is of great cultural and historical significance to the ...
Nature At Its Best In Aceh
... for all Acehnese who are Muslims to be at the mosque, failing which the penalty is hefty. Aceh is the only province in Indonesia which practices Shariah laws, similar to that of Saudi Arabia. There are no commercial courts here and all governance is ...
Sunset Admired From Another Beach Too In Aceh
From the earlier beach area, it was a mere 15 minutes drive passing through some villages and we arrived at this other beach. Unlike the earlier beach, here there seemed to be a beach cum hill resort built in recent years. This beach was equally ...
Papa Chili's
So I'm writing these in "the future" and backdating them, or at least trying to remember the dates that correspond to the places we're writing about. It's fun to log in and read the comments from our peeps back home. Feels like its been a long time ...
Mother Velangkani Church.....A Palace Of Miracles
From the earlier stop, it had taken us two hours to arrive in Tanjung Selamat, a suburb outside of Medan City but falls within the city limits. The main reason to stop over here was to bring my family over to visit this particular Mother Mary Church ...
A Muttony Lunch In Aceh
... include birds that one rears at home and also cocks which are used for fighting...though cock fighting is already declared illegal in Indonesia. He had an entire range of birds from parrots to mynas and even some rare birds. Interesting how he had ...
Travelled to Bukittinggi
After a little hassle with the hotel staff in Jakarta, given the manager didn't turn up to take us to the airport as promised, they phoned him and he decided to pay the taxi fare to the airport. The staff were really nice and apologetic, and got us ...
A Good Night's Rest After Six Hours Journey
The traffic was extremely bad and it was a complete crawl all the way. I do not remember a point in time when we exceeded 30 kilometres per hour speed. Finally after going diverting the journey through some village roads, we ...
Taman Putroe Phang....A Royal Love Affair
This morning, our very first destination is to visit the Putroe Phang Garden in Aceh city. This park was built by Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh who ruled Aceh from 1607 - 1636. Putroe Phang is the princess from the state of Pahang Malaysia and was his ...
An epic journey
... 9 to 14 hours to reach Banda Aceh, so we weren’t waiting long before we were aboard our swishest looking bus in Sumatra yet, complete with AC, toilet, reclining seats and of course a smoking area and enough leg room for Andy. Unfortunately it also ...
A Depressing Visit....The Worst I Saw In Aceh
... wave. This surely shows the might of the waves that struck Aceh that day. This vessel was brought from Kalimantan, Indonesia one year prior to the incident as Aceh faces a great shortage of electricity supply and was only commissioned 1 month ...
Good Bye Medan
We had an early head start from the hotel, by 4.15 am we were already at the airport. That was about the time they just opened the airport doors. Hehehe, this is the first time in my life where I saw the airport doors being opened right in front of my ...
Into Indonesia
... where to go next; a quick flip through the SE Asia Lonely Planet highlighted the natural wonders of Indonesia’s largest island, Sumatra: primary rainforest, big, hairy primates, active volcanoes, prodigious waterfalls, deep blue (and clean) crater ...
Lazing at the lake
... and clear - mmmmm perfect! The diving board hanging over the edge of the water was hours of fun too. Who'd have known Indonesia had such amazing treasures. We were staying in a little village called Tuk Tuk, in a lovely resort (Samosir Cottage), it ...
The Orangutan Room
Travelling to Bukit Lawang was long! We were met on the bus by Tambrin, a guide (how convenient??). Despite his selling tactics the 4 of us decided to go with him into the jungle the next day. The Ecolodge is a great place!! It was hit by the flash ...
Tubing is ace...
After a rough nights sleep I awoke this morning to the sound of the river and the smell of a campfire. A dip in the river later and I was fed a chocolate pancake and after a wee in the jungle we set off on day 2 of the trek. Not one for strenuous ...
Sultan Iskandar Muda Airport...Pride Of Aceh
... were at the waiting lounge. As we had lots of time, we decided to sit down at a coffee shop inside the waiting area. Indonesia is quite weird in that sense. One can smoke in most of the coffee shops inside the airports and not only in ...
Nias (soundtrack- Bob Marley)
We're in Bukittinghi now, back on Sumatra mainland- it's a small town in the mountains surrounded by three volcanoes. Quite nice, Western food, which has been heaven after nine days of pretty much just rice, noodles and egg- had pizza with REAL CHEESE our ...
pulau weh - back to the roots
... da ramadhan xi isch, het s meiste zue gah und internet hets sowieso noed geh. eusi plaen mitem toeffli zum point zero kilometer vo indonesia zgah und au sust di insle chli go aluege, hend sich i wasser ufgloest. eusi chleider hend nuem trocknet und au di ...
Oranguans!!!!
Off bright and early on Tuesday 8th heading for Sumatra. An excellent 5 hour ferry crossing, didn;t even realise we were in the water! Wish we could have said the same about the next six hours in an series of buses on an arse-breaking road! The ...
Sumatra
Arrived in Bukit Lawang after 18hrs of travelling, including experiencing the joys of Indonesian internal Lion Air...(particularly the prayer leaflet in your sheet providing a prayer in your religion to help us have a safe journey, I was a little ...
Berastagi...The Town Of Fruits
... local religious authorities and a separate Moslem burial ground would be prepared for the Moslems as opposed to the non Moslems. Indonesia, being the largest Islamic country in the world, DID practice religious freedom. Once we had checked ...
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, ...
The Benjamin
We left Toba on monday, heading north to Pulau Weh, an island off Aceh with supposedly great diving. There's four of us sitting around this table, conversing about Sharia law. Travelling for 22 months now, Rob, a 25 year old english chap is the kind of ...
Whats it take to be an Indonesian millionare?
Here is the low-down on what things cost Pappi here in Indonesia. I took out a million Rupiahs the other day! Indonesia uses the Rupiah as its currency $1 USD = 9,299 IDR 1 million Rupiahs = $107.52 USD The local average daily wage in Indonesia is ...
GUNUNG RINJANI NATIONAL PARK : One of the Best Tr
Gunung Rinjani National Park covers an area of 41,330 hectares on the northern part of Lombok. The peak of Gunung Rinjani reaching up to 3,726m dominates the landscape.Gunung Rinjani National Park offers the beauty of the volcano, the Segara Anakan ...
Le Tour De Medan Begins
... of Parapat which lies on the shore of Lake Toba. The journey was long and it was a culture shock for the others seeing Indonesia the way it is, especially the roads and traffic. As for me, I am very used to this already. Taking up the winding ...
to Lake Toba
... to snorkel as well. Ready for some ocean time! By the way, if anyone reading this is thinking about traveling to Indonesia, I would highly reccommend it. Its gorgeous, the people are really friendly, so many different cultures. We've only been in ...