Bukittinggi, Sumatra, Indonesia

... Eventually we said our farewells and boarded our ferry. Without going into the detail about the journey from Pulau Batam to Bukittinggi through Pekanbaru I will say that it was a hellish experience. It included a bus with a flat tire, endless waits and ...

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Arrived in Bukittinggi and decided on a whim hat due to time constraints i'd pass straight through and go straight to Danau Mannninjau, so got the bus straight there.

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... I paid about 1600 rupiah the day before. He finally found me a little bus, away from the bus station, that was leaving for Bukittinggi. I gave him 3000 rupih and he was happy. I got to this town in the late afternoon and tried to find the guesthouse. ...

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... town! Found a nifty little hotel (well it was Mr Smedley's coming of age!) and set about exploring our first Indonesian town! Bukittinggi is very quaint and set next to the most beautiful gorge - neither of us really had any expectations of what to find in ...

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