http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Indonesia , Sumatra , Medan en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 03:43:19 +0000 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:43:19 +0000 Program Tour Hari1 MedanBerastagiParapat LDTiba di bandara polonia medandisambut oleh perwakilan kamiHoras Selamat datang di medanselanjutnya group akan dibawa menuju berastagi kota wisata yang beriklim sejuk yang terkenal dengan panorama alamnyakota wisata yang terkenal sebagai penghasil buahbunga dan sayuran di sumatera. Tiba di berastagi transfer to local restoran untuk maka http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-769077.html If you ever need to take the Pelni ferry to Medan from Bedan in Sumatra you just have to upgrade to 2nd class. The standard though very cheap economy class is seriously unappealing. 2000 souls with baggage and kids a 24 hour journey with appalling toilets floating floaters need I type more and dormitories to well avoid really. I39m now in Medan at the upper end of Sumatra. Just had a ch http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-766031.html Hei guys this is one of sumatera overland tour programsorry if this posting bothers you all.hope it would be a help for you to explore sumatera. Program Tour Sumatera Overland Tour 13 Days 12 NigthsDay 01 Airport Hotel Upon arrival at Polonia airport transfer to hotel and afternoon free at own leisure. Day 02 Medan Bukit lawang B After breakfast city tour by visiting great Mosque http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-756698.html Dear travel LordThere comes a point in a backpacker39s odyssey when the knots in his back and dirt under his finger nails come together and demand a higher standard of accommodation. With a bag full of stinky clothes and the anticipation for a soft mattress I stroll up going comando no less to the counter at the Cambridge Swissbel 5star hotel in Medan.I have a reservation for three nights http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-752631.html Medan is the third largest city in Indonesia. It39s dirty It39s noisy It39s polluted. We saw very healthy rats we had a couple of cockroach friends in our room and there are beggars everywhere. It39s a large Asian city... what else could you expect Beyond these generalizations that many people avoid on their travels we found a city that is sooo much more. Another thing you hear ab http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-736819.html Vanochtend maar weer eens vroeg opgestaan om de taxi naar het vliegtuig te nemen. Het vroege opstaan wordt een gewoonte want als we wel eens een keertje niet vroeg gewekt worden voor de taxi is het wel een of andere moskee die om 4.30 39smorgens lawaai begint te maken.Tom en ik hadden het vliegtuig bijna gemist omdat wij even bij Strabucks iets lekkers wilden kopen. We kwamen bij het vliegtu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-732924.html It is Saturday morning shortly after midnight and we experience a typical tropical rain shower. A new waterfall develops in our room. The water runs down the walls and a lake develops on the floor of the green room. I really do love waterfalls but not in my room. It was a horrible night and as if the water wasn39t bothering us enough the prayers were projected through the loudspeakers at 4.3 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-668519.html Cek http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-651975.html 8 septembre 2011On prend notre petitdejeuner puis on part en jeep direction Tangakahan un petit village de jungle encore plus recule. On nous annonce 39 km de route en 3 heures... hein Ca semble louche... et en effet ce l est La route n est pas pavee toute defoncee pleine de cotes en glaise... sans parler de toute la menagerie du coin qui passe sur la route... et des ponts en bois avec http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-649289.html Bonjour tout le monde6 septembre 2011On se leve tres tot car a 530 il faut etre assis dans notre taxi. On prend la direction du 2e aeroport de Kuala Lumpur dedie aux vols lowcost... il y a des gens partout malgre l heure tres matinale... et qui dit lowcost dit organisation qui laisse a desirer... on peine un peu a faire notre checkin puis lorsque c est fait on se gate avec un bon petitde http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-649179.html Leaving Burma proved to be more of a headache than I had hoped for. It was as if the government themselves were clawing at the straps of my backpack at every step of the way. I had checkedin online to save time at the airport. On arrival I sailed rather smugly it must be said past the long line of people waiting to checkin. The long queue appeared to be going nowhere as every person seemed to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-554167.html Horas horas horas is a greetings from local dialect Batak in North Sumatra province. I have been invite by Narasindo Travel and Tours for familiarization trip to know about tourism product and destination that they can offer for tourist in Medan Brastagi and Lake Toba. I never been there before so I take this opportunity to visit this places.Temporarily I need to forget about guesthouse http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-547828.html No alarm this morning but we still woke up pretty earlyish. Left GH at around 11 after saying bye to Fadil and Opick and seeing some punky monkeys leap about on our roof. The trek through the village is much less fun when you're weighed down with a huge backpack big swelt on Grabbed bike thing motorbike with a sidecar attached to it like a sideways tuk tuk 6000Rp to bus station where we we http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-503820.html Got ferry at 10am after a hearty breakfast of honey pancakes mmm mmm. Spoke to a couple of girls on the jetty who assured us that the GH we were planning on going to in Medan was still standing we hadn't been able to get through to them by phone and didn't want a repeat of Padang. We'd decided to get a 7 seater car 65000 instead of the public bus 22000 as it was much quicker. The car was http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-502838.html Medanissa perinteinen Pizza Hut ennen lentokentlle menoa. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-484311.html Tavattiin taas Ika ja lahdettiin kentalta autolla suoraan kohti orankipaikkaa. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-480277.html HiWe have been completely out of contact in Bukit Luwang here in Sumatra but we've had an amazing timeWe arrived late on Xmas eve and just got the first room we could. Then on Xmas day we went and found a better place where the toilet didn't stink so much that we couldn't bare it and then had Xmas dinner at a nice place on the river to be fair most of the town is on the river but it sounds good http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-463496.html Once more I was off on another overnight bus trip. Its almost like there are no other schedules on Sumatra except overnight I had been variously told that the Bukittinggi to Medan run took 14 hours 18 hours 20 hours and 24 hours so I didnt quite know what to expect. It took 20 hours and it wasnt too bad of a trip actually far more comfortable than any of the other overnighters I endure http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-447505.html Well our journey of Malaysia comes to an end and we have to say how amazing Malaysia is It is one of those places that in the past we never really thought of but we should say that it definitely has to be put on the map.So we now enter what is most likely to be the most taxing most arduous part of our travels...but we are expecting it to be the most rewarding.With such as huge country we won't http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-435123.html I've done so much traveling over the last few days. And the last week or so before I was going out every night so I'm starting to forget my own name. No not really I quite like long journeys. I guess that helps when you're traveling. It's nice to just sit and look out of the window and think and read and listen to music. Good way to clear my head. But it is tiring.So we had a couple more days in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Medan/blog-408773.html