http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Indonesia , Sumatra , Padang en-us Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:20:29 +0000 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:20:29 +0000 Hi folks Just a quick update as it's been a while since we have been able to update our blog with Melaka Penang and Sumatra.As you may be aware there has been a series of devastating earthquakes in Sumatra with the worst hit being Padang. We are glad to say that we are not affected by this but we were in Padang about a week before the earthquakes struck.We are now in Jakarta and hopefully the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-441686.html September 22 2009 September 24 2009Exchange Rate as of Sep 23 2009 1GBP Rp15928HOTELPadangImmanuel HotelDouble fan TV shared bathroomRp125000 inc. breakfast.Small homely place within walking distance from Padang Beach. Price is slightly high for the quality but it's still a spotless place.TRANSPORTTuk Tuk to Parapat by ferryRp7000 1 hourParapat to Padang by busRp450000 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-439130.html Five old farts on surfari. The mean age of 51 was only that low because our 45 year old puppy Jeff decided to tag along.The plan was simple 5 days wallowing in Bali as an entree to the more serious surfing side of things on an island off the coast of Frank Sumatra.Stretching the memory strings back almost 30 years to my first jaunt to Bali I began transposing the 1 dollar a night losmen against http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-429389.html If I could describe Indo in one word it would be a short pause and then wow. I think in my last travel blog in my rush to get a blog out to everyone I made a pretty harsh comment about it being third world which it is and that I was jaded and something about a hand out. I feel very bad about this comment and my inability to express myself sometimes as what upset me about my time in Indo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-353620.html Es war ein traumhaft sonniger Tag heute und die Ausblicke auf den See waren noch einmal berwltigend. Ich fuhr die gut 10 km um die Nordseite des Sees herum und bog dann rechts ab in Richtung Kste. Es folgte eine ca. 15 km lange Abfahrt durch ein schnes Tal und bei Lubuk Basung war dann die Kstenebene erreicht. Die ersten knapp 40 km zwischen Tiku und Pariaman fhrte die Strae nah am Meer en http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-299985.html Less than a week till i leave for my Sumatran coastal trip from PADANG gt BENGKULU gt KRUI gt BANDAR LAMPUNG just wanted to know if anyone has some advice or ideas of what I should try out stop off or whatever http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-286457.html My journey begins in the city Kota of Padang West Sumatra Sumatra Barat. I have good knowledge of the city and many friends that I know who live and study there because I studied part of my University degree there over the 20072008 Christmas Holiday period. During this time of study I only got a limited amount of Traveling done in Sumatra. It is now coming up to my mid semester break holiday http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-280335.html Turen fra oen Samosir var en af de frygteligeste oplevelser for os beggeVi havde bestemt os for at blive paa Sumatra Indonesien i yderligere nogle dage for at se hvad mere denne spaendende oe havde at byde paa. Derfor ville vi begive os til vestkysten hvor der angiveligt ville vaere nogle flotte og dejlige sandstrande. Vi ville foerst stoppe i Bukitingi hvor vi havde laest at der ville vaere en http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-233323.html We arrived in West Sumatra late at night on December 4. A larger airport at Padang than expected but bit of a melee from the start and very hot and humid. The two men at Immigation took an inordinate amount of time reviewing passports and then stamped forms with vigour. After an hour we were waived through to collect our bags which I managed after only a short sharp tussle with sharklike wannabe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-231985.html 10th 16th July 2006 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-134916.html 3 days at sea and 3 days in jakarta i saw the sights and encountered the good and bad with a free place to stay my money was going further. overly cramped sardine trains shantytype towns polluted rivers and immaculate malls could sum up the city but my stay was followed by a mammoth 40 hour bus ride to central sumatra day and night and day and night i spent on the same bus leaving only for http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-126533.html So where was i oh yeah meeting my friend mardi throwing away ideas about budgets and deciding on pulau pagang to be my next destination.Although it cost a bit it was so worthwhile. The island is situated just off the coast of Padang absolutely nobody there very robinson crusoelike.The days food was the days catch i'm talking fresh fish eaten by right hand.All those years of parents try http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-113516.html After arriving in Indonesia I stayed a night in Padang to adept a bit to all the new things. Here I first had what is known in all Indonesia as 'Padang Food' in many places the only food. And I was not to happy with it. Being hot to very spicy and ready made in the morning it is than left for presentation roting... in the restaurant window. I did never get ill seriously from it but certainly m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Padang/blog-31251.html