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 were put straight into minivan to Medan (20,000). It was quite empty when we set off but we knew what to expect. After going at a crawling pace for the next 20mins through the village there were 16 of us (and 4 big bags of fish that were taking up their version of 2 seats) in a 12 seater van!! Squishy :)
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