Medan Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Sumatra,Medan.
27-02-2009.

Ba ck in Medan, this dusty typical third world muslim town full with stinking open gutters, heavy traffic of the rusty type and people evrywhere going to and fro on a mad quest for Allah only knows what.

For the sake of convenience - and still having lots of local tatty notes of Rp. still in my pocket ...

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 perspiration poring out of his massive body and streaming down his fat in swollen rivers, wheezi...

This building is dominated by yellow colors. However, do not connect it with the color of a political party. Yellow was the typical color of the Malay. There are family photographs, furnishings, and old weapons inside the building. The Maimoon Palace was the legacy of Deli Sultanate. Maimoon palace was located in Brigjen Katamso Street, Medan. S...

I could have stayed at Lake Toba forever. It has the power to do that; to capture you and hold you there, entranced by the mists that steal in over the lake at night like restless spirits, listening to the echo and hum of voices and guitar strings: You're beautiful. You're beautiful. You're beautiful, it's true. I saw your face in a crowded plac...

Trying not to use the last of the empty pages on visas That mad motorticycle in the monsoon Searching for orang utans my way with an air asia deadline to fly to KL to watch the FA Cup Ketembe and the mad bus driver, Pak Mus and son and back to the hotel Found the jungle and a sense of perspective........smiled on the bus ride a lot

There are more pictures here: http://bu.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=34 436543&id=911926&l=e98de Friday April 6th- I arrived safely in Medan and was welcomed by customs officials smoking in the airport. This should be a prelude to Medan... We drove to my new "home" in a city that was 3x dirtier , stinkier and poorer than anywhere in Thailand I saw...

Selamat siang from Indonesia, an unexpected addition to our trip! As we said in the last entry, we were getting a bit bored of bronzing the bodies (or not in Guys case - his words not mine) in Thailand, and we noticed that Sumatra (a big island in Indonesia) wasn't too far away so we decided to give it a try. When we booked our flights back in E...

Don't bother... Being a tourist in these parts makes you some thing of a celebrity. Every 5 meters someone will shout "Hello friend" or "Hello Mr." If you stop anywhere (even to eat) there will be someone trying valiantly to strike up a conversation. Which usually turns out a mess considering the only form of communication we have in common is s...