Hotel Renggali Banda Aceh
Jl. Bintang Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia
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ACEH!!! Bless you.
So I'm in Banda Aceh, North Sumatra, after leaving Ubud, and I didn’t enjoy the journey here.
Here’s an example of bad planning. Firstly my credit card wouldn’t work on a couple of websites so I couldn’t get a direct flight from Bali to Medan. So I booked 2 flights, Bali to Kuala Lumpur, and then to Medan. Little did I realise that I’d have to pay almost another £20 for another visa once getting back into Indonesia (at ...
Thanks to the World
... infrastructure along of coastline) put Aceh in a state of emergency for five months, during which time nutrition and basic shelter provided the dead were recovered and buried, families were reunited, water-borne epidemics averted and 70,000m3 of debris was removed & used in reconstruction. Altho’ slow, In just over four years since, most homes and infrastructure have been rebuilt, thanks to a US$3.25 billion budget and huge cooperative effort ...
Diving delights - they don't get any better!
... but I think there were very few deaths, due to the high ground here. Any damage done to the island has all been repaired.
I took a motorbike taxi to Iboih, which was a fabulous drive in itself. The island is quite hilly and our 45 minute trip was full of undulating hills and tiny villages. Panoramic views from the top of hills looked amazing, with tiny islets and horseshoe bays of verdant green fringing stunning Mediterranean-like clear ...
Quick dip in paradise...
... coffee, cans, bottles, pot noodles.. so were pretty happy with that. An hour later, I checked the flights again and they had been put back ANOTHER 2 hrs! - Thank you 'Swiwijaya Air' What kind of name is that anyway?
So 5pm we apparently take off, instead of the scheduled 1.30pm. More free drinks we thought - we actually filled up our bags! Maybe even fit in a skype or two. At ten to 5 we moved though ...
Tsunami
We weten inmiddels hoe opdringerig de Sumatranen zijn, maar toch went het niet. Aangekomen in Banda Aceh moeten we eerst in het centrum zien te komen en besluiten we met een labi-labi (laadbakje met twee bankjes) te gaan. Onvoorstelbaar hoeveel mensen en wij met onze grote tassen ze in zo'n kleine ruimte kunnen proppe, efficient is het wel!. In het centrum worden we eruit geknikkerd en moeten we op zoek naar een hotel. Na wat vragen brengen twee jongens ons achter op ...


