Cheaper to be local

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Checked out, we've spent about 45GBP each during our 4 days here which isn't bad considering that inc. accommodation, all our food and laundry. Ali was going to Bukittinggi today too so we walked with him up to the main road and waited till a car stopped that had free seats. The 3 of us were squashed into the back seat with our huge bags! To make matters worse Ali got travel sick so he spent much of the journey looking sick or being sick into a carrier bag whilst I rubbed his back hahah. Thankfully travelling with a local definitely makes things cheaper. We paid 40,000 to get to Lake Maninjau and just 15,000 to get back 😊 and we were dropped off right at the door to hotel Asia where we said bye to Ali.

Unfortunately we're back in an economy room (shared bathroom) but it's not too bad. We've booked bus to go to Lake Toba (150,000 each for a/c and toilet + 25,000 for taxi) which we're expecting to be awful but on a plus it's our LAST NIGHT BUS.... we think.

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