Blogs from Bukit Lawang, Sumatra, Indonesia, Asia - page 2

Většina cestovatelů do Indonésie se chce podívat do džungle a jednou z nejjednodušších možností je Bukit Lawang, vzdálený pouhé tři hodinky od medanského letiště. Nejjednodušší možnosti mívají svá úskalí, v tomto případě je to samozřejmě zkaženost turismem. Jako základna pro výlet do deštného pralesa ale asi slouží dobře, i když nemůžu porovnávat s dalšími možnostmi, které se pro západního turistu naskýtají, především Tangkahan, pár hodin na sever odtud, a Ketambe u města Kutacane, ležící v Acehu na severojižní silnici vražené přímo doprostřed parku. Každopádně Bukit Lawang leží na hranici mezi národním parkem Leuser a okolní krajinou zaplněnou vesnicemi, ale hlavně plantážemi palmy olejné a kaučukovníku. Zajímavé to je pochopitelně hlavně spíš v národním parku než v plantážích, a Bukit Lawang nabízí služeb průvodců, kteří vás do něj na několik hodin až na několik dní zavedou. Ikonick ... read more

Still in the transition phase for updates Read all about our 2 day trek through the Sumatran Jungle here!!!! http://shoestringprincess.blogspot.com/... read more

Geo: -7.83075, 112.697It took me a few days to cycle from Lake Toba via Pemantangsiantar and Medan to Bukit Lawang but the roads are crazy, really fast and furious with all sorts of obstacles and challenges along the way. I've been forced off the road several times with buses overtaking trucks on narrow roads, they give you no option but to get out of their way, dodging the potholes and other bikers! So it's been a fun start to cycling in Indonesia but on the plus side I'm always amazed at the people I meet along the way and the kindness of them although they can't believe I'm traveling out here on my own.Permatangsiantar and Medan were both cities with really heavy traffic and I didn't hang around too long although Medan had a fantastic Central ... read more

I was back in another airport waiting for another flight, this time to Medan in Indonesia, to go back in the rainforest again. The flight only took an hour and caught a taxi to Kampang Lalang which could loosely be described as a bus station. From there I caught a minibus to Bukit Lawang, on arrival a guy came up to be and offered me a lift to my hostel for 5000rp. There are 14,000rp to £1 so when I went to the ATM to withdraw £100 I instantly became a millionaire – woohoo. What the guy didn’t say was that he was going to give me a lift to the hostel on his scooter which made for a very cramped journey with my backpack and daypack! It was no surprise at all to me that ... read more

As Rebecca's Grandad would say “Oooo Heck!”. Where to start with this one?! The beginning is usually the best place to start so we'll give that a shot... The last few days of our life have been like living in a David Attenborough documentary. We were in the jungle, surrounded by birds, insects, primates, fauna and flora etc. It has been absolutely unreal! Warning: The pictures we will show you and the blog we are about to share are not even going to come close to justifying what we experienced in the last few days! Our first night in Bukit Lawang we stayed at a guesthouse we had read nothing but rave reviews about, Greenhill. The reviews were all accurate; it was great! We had a private room pretty much directly in the jungle with a ... read more