Hotel Dhaksina Medan

20 Jalan Sisingamangaraja Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia

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Shipping bike to Sumatra

A travel blog entry by cimek

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... tomorrow.

WERSJA POLSKA

Gdy zjawiłem się w porcie o ustalonej wcześniej godzinie, w biurowym okienku przesiadywał już inny facet. Powiedział mi zdecydowane "nie" i w żaden sposób nie dał się ugiąć. Popytałem więc innych, ale jedyne, czego się dowiedziałem, to że zabranie motocykla razem z warzywami jest wbrew indonezyjskiemu prawu i że nikt nie chcę ...

Perve after perve!

A travel blog entry by lisannelee

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... if I was the only female in Indo to be treated by men in this way until I met a Filopino lady who told me that a becak driver had spat on her after she refused to pay him more than the agreed fare upon arrival at the destination, that becak drivers often liked to feel her up whilst driving and that once, she'd arrived at an Indo airport and that the male immigration staff had demanded her to take off all her clothes so that they could look and feel her to check that ...

Van Sabang naar Medan

A travel blog entry by basopreis

Eerst nog een paar zaken, die ik gisteren had moeten schrijven.
Tijdens het snorkelen is mijn rug behoorlijk verbrand; ik had nog gevraagd aan de reisleider op de boot of ik mijn tshirt aan of uit moest doen en hij zei dat zonder tshirt geen probleem zou zijn, wel dus. Ik heb tijdens het slapen veel last gehad, ondanks de creme die ik gebruik. Daarnaast ben ik verkouden geworden.
Gisteravond vertelde de Nederlandse eigenaresse van Lubang Lubang (betekent dolfijnen) haar ...

Hearsay

A travel blog entry by eunhye

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... and half, the only accident I've seen is some guy pulling the front bumper off his car by trying to drive over a large concrete brick. I've seen kids,
easily younger than 11, driving motorcycles and have heard rumour of some of our 14/15 year old students having driving licences and cars (you can get anything at a price here). My co-workers say that the streets have gotten much busier recently since they introduced payment by finance on new ...

Day 2 - Learning to barter

A travel blog entry by eunhye

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... part? You could also order anything you wanted from the restaurant next door and they would bring it in to you. So we settled down for an evening of Narnia 3, complete with
pizza, potato wedges and potato au gratin (seriously now, a 3rd world country has better food than Korea!!??)

It's so strange living here. On the one hand there are tiny barefooted children selling fruit, water and newspapers down the middle of the ...