Hotel Garuda Citra
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Dirty Medan
Ok so the title doesn't do it justice, we arrived got picked up at the airport and went straight to the hotel. The hotel was plush i thought at first and then after a spate of Power cuts my opinion quickly changed. It was a large hotel for sure but lacked personal service we had to wait for our room to be ready as I'd requested an Extra bed. This …
Booyaka Booyaka - Jungalist Massive
... any more we quickly move on to the top of the first hill (Bukit)…
…and first Orang-utan sighting! Not even 30 minute’s walk into the jungle and we’ve almost hit the jackpot. About 30 metres directly above us, hanging nonchalantly off the slimmest of branches, legs unidentifiable from arms is a wild adolescent male. Our guide explains that the reason why it’s wild and not one of the semi-wild ones that have been reintroduced into ...
Death cab
... to this by now). The driver was pretty cool. During the 3 hour drive he stopped at a hawker stall and ordered us some fried banana from the window of the van. Then we hit rush hour, well the roads were an eye opener anyway. The mixture of mini buses, motorbikes with sidecars, scooters and wagons from the plantations filled with fruit to make palm oil, was both random and ridiculous. Every scooter had at least 3 people, usually the dad driving, toddler stood at front ...
Laebe im Raegewald
... gwatet. Natürli sind mini hose trotzdem fasch bis zum füdli nass worde. Janu... Mueni sie nüm wäsche :) Ha sowieso müesse dtusse-jacqueline diheime lah. Mer sind über stock und stei, über gwaggligi hängebruggene gloffe und durch felsspalt klettered... :) und das isch mit mine zwei linke füess ned immer ganz eifach gsi. Zum zmittag hetts nasi goreng geh, wo de guide (bapak (vater) papola) im vorhinein kauft hett. Es isch so herrlich idyllisch gsi: ganz elei am flussufer am nasi goreng esse. ...
The Angel of Medan
... any firm opinions of the place, but so far, for us, everything as gone well and we are discovering the people to be remarkably friendly and helpful. Plus, unlike Thai or Chinese, their language, similar to Malay, is pretty easy to learn, so we are already communicating in single word sentences. We also discover a word we shall see many more times - Wisata, as in the name of our hotel, The Wisata Angel - it's an all purpose word that applies to people like us - ...