Bukittinggi Hotels - Reviews and Rates

So as you may recall, I really really love this town called Bukittinggi in West Sumatra, and after much deliberation, I decided that I had had enough of sightseeing and wanted to come spend the last two weeks of my trip in this friendly town. I was afraid that despite how awesome everyone is here, I might get bored in two weeks...but as it turns...

Bukittinggi is the sleepy town that comes to life twice a week on market days. Orginally the town was formed from five local villages. The market seems to rotate around the local area as I also caught in my next town. Bukittinggi is the starting point for treks up the surrounding volcanoes. As I had a chest infection from my cold unfortunately t...

d fahrt im "super super executive" bus, wo denn knapp ueberem standart xi isch, isch fuer d'anja de horror xi.. scho nach de erste vo 14 stund het sich ihre mage umtruellt und sie het uf duetsch gseit alles vollekotzet. de fahrer isch wi alli im land gfahre wiene sau, bi strasse wo so verwinklet und kurvig sind wie bi eus ide berge. nur mit viel...

After two days in Bukittingi around the markets and watching the street life, our driver picked us up yesterday morning at our hotel and we departed on a scenic drive from the Highlands to Padang. Our first encounter was the Ngarai Canyon. It looks like a popular picnic spot All through the hills are Japanese tunnels - you can visit, but we were...

So we took the flight, and got to Bukittingi, and decided, intstead we would stay here a night, and then head to Lake Toba tommorrow. We thought the bus ride there was to be around 12 hours, and have come to find out that it is more like 21 now, because there was a landslide on the main road, meaning we have to take a roundabout way on a ****** ...

P: Ok, long story short...hmmm, where to start, then:) So after leaving Singapore by boat to Pulau Batam(Sekupang), which is aleady in Indonesia,our Interesting Times started. Still, getting an Indonesian visa wasn't problem, it costs 25USD and we paid in on the spot, no problem. Then we wanted to catch a boat to Pekanbaru on Sumatra, only to fo...

Bukittinggi - nothing worth celebrating. The town itself is nothing special. Although we managed to get some of the best street food ever. And if you're into monkeys you can see a bunch at Taman Panorama. The real attractions lay outside the city.

Indonesian Jungle Trek It was Christmas night and we were finally on our way. Our boat was originally supposed to sail two days earlier so that we could spend Christmas on Siberut island, an island off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. But as is often the case in Indonesia we didn't actually leave on time. Siberut Island is west of Padang in...