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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, where all lodging and transportion is arrange by this agency. Medan is the 3rd largest city of Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya. Located north side of Sumatra, and 45min by flight from Kuala Lumpur, also can be reach by ferry from Penang. The lead majority population is Java Sumatra followed by Batak, and Chinesse people. Old building architecture blend with Dutch design, also can be found in ... read more

Just a short visit to Pulau Pangkor. Nothing much to see, only different sunrise at different place.... read more

Ubud, located center of Bali. Places that we can explore and discover about native life and culture of Balinesse. Where all those stuff like culture performance, artwork, handicraft originally from Bali people came from. After finished my historical excursion with Perama ( local operator in Bali ). The driver drop me in Ubud, for my next destination. About an hour ago, I feel so happy because I got someone to chat with me and explain me about history, people and culture in Bali. But now I'm all alone in center of nowhere. Perama guide manage to get for me room that cost RP100,000 per night . Very basic but I still not satisfy with the room so I decide to pay for 1 night stay only, so that I can figure some other rooms tomorrow. ... read more

I read 1 of vagabonding article by Lavinia Spalding, she wrote a phrase " Don't think about it too much. Don't make pro and con lists. Pro and con lists are nothing but trouble. If you think about it too much, you'll just end up staying home and then someday you'll be telling your grandchildren ". This will motivate me since I just decide to quit my job and find out what world can offer me from now. Next destination, I'm heading to Jogjakarta, lack of time do to research, so I just go with a flow. I hope there's not much different between Jakarta and Jogjakarta, because I have been to Jakarta before. Landed at 11am, I catch Trans Jogja ( very efficient and reliable public transport ) that only cost Rp3,000 to any ... read more

It's about time to pack my bag and move from Siem Reap. Very mix up feeling, a bit difficult to leave Cambodia ( because i start to love everything about this country ), and excited to go to Bangkok. We leave at 9am, from Siem Reap, the bus rides just similar with the one i rides from Phnom Penh. It took 5hrs to reach Poipet border. From far, the traffic jammed is already bad, we arrived Khao San road at 7pm, and start looking for guesthouse, we get help from another traveller from French, i can't recalled his name, he very familiar with this place, since he's married with Thailand girl and just give birth his son. So he want to pay a visit and celebrate Songkran ( Thailand New Year ) together. To be ... read more