The journey to Bukit Tinggi was not quite as bad as we had anticipated....the 16 hour bus ride seemed to just fly by...no joke. At this stage in the game, we don't even blink an eye went we are about to get onto another night bus. The ride was fine, quite bumpy, slippery and slidey for the most part since the road pretty much disappeared during the night and we found ourselves driving through deep, slippery mud. No sleep for us that night. We arrived in Bukittinggi at 9am, check into a hotel and went to sleep. The next day we joined a Dutch couple, that we had met on the bus, on a day tour of the countryside around Bukittinggi. We visited a coffee roasting house, historic Minangkabau houses, woodcarvers, weavers and a dirty lake
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