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INDONESIA | Thursday, 28 Aug 2014 | Views [585]
Departure day. Time to head home to Melbourne. At Medan airport, the neon sign said Boarding Gate Opens at 3:15 . We were with staff at that time & had to fill out a departure card. Dave couldn’t find his (we received ... Read more >
Tags: airport, indonesia, medan, sumatra
INDONESIA | Wednesday, 27 Aug 2014 | Views [610]
Day 27.
We are in room 632 on the 6 th floor of the Danau Toba International Hotel . Our huge window opens wide. It has no fly screen or security screen. The wall ends at thigh height & that is where the window ... Read more >
Tags: food, indonesia, medan, shopping, sumatra
INDONESIA | Saturday, 16 Aug 2014 | Views [428]
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart” – Confucius.
Day 16. Travel day from Medan to Banda Aceh to Pulau Weh (Sabang).
We saw Danny Trujo & Morgan Freeman’s Indonesian doubles at the ... Read more >
Tags: banda aceh, iboih, pulau weh, sabang, sumatra, tsunami
INDONESIA | Friday, 15 Aug 2014 | Views [437]
Day 15. Medan . Had a pretty lazy day inside shopping centres in the cool today. We went to Sun Plaza & Palladium Plaza & the cinema and saw Teenage Ninja Turtles 4. It was….as you would expect it to be. ... Read more >
Tags: bule, medan, paparazzi, plaza, sumatra
INDONESIA | Thursday, 14 Aug 2014 | Views [446]
Day 14. MEDAN . Ate a spicy rice breakfast at our hotel, Hotel Ibunda because that’s just what you do here in Indonesia. We had a short walk to a nearby plaza, treading very carefully on the footpaths. There was one ‘... Read more >
Tags: advertising, airport, bule, cigarettes, footpath, indo mie, kuala namu, medan, sumatra, tv
INDONESIA | Friday, 8 Aug 2014 | Views [445]
Day 8.
Had a solid sleep in our king size poster bed of amazingness. I woke to find that Dave had descended & re-ascended our 55 steep stairs to bring us morning cuppas. We drank them while listening to the call of ... Read more >
Tags: bukit lawang, fruit, honeymoon suite, indonesia, jungle inn, macaque, monkey, orphanage, sumatra, turtle
INDONESIA | Thursday, 7 Aug 2014 | Views [455] | Comments [2]
Today we are leaving Tangkahan & heading to Bukit Lawang. The total of our bill for 3 of us, for 6 nights in 2 rooms, plus all meals & all drinks was three million, nine hundred thousand rupiah or $390 Australian Dollars.
We said ... Read more >
Tags: atm, blackout, bohorok, bukit lawang, dry season, grotto, honeymoon suite, jungle inn, sumatra, waterfall room
INDONESIA | Sunday, 1 Aug 2010 | Views [1208] | Comments [5]
At 8:30 this morning we saw 10 young homeless kids asleep on the footpath in the city of Medan. We bought chicken satay for all of them & water & milk drinks & some other food. When we came to give it to them, they were all just waking ... Read more >
Tags: drink, food, homeless, homeless children, indonesia, medan, sumatra
INDONESIA | Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 | Views [802] | Comments [1]
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think that you can control it" - John Steinbeck Dave didn't get a wink of sleep last night coz of the rat in our room. Our walls are woven split bamboo & we have Marie biscuits, ... Read more >
Tags: bukit lawang, indonesia, rat, rats, rodent, sumatra
INDONESIA | Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 | Views [2163] | Comments [5]
(and with my motorcycle history, i probably shouldn't. ahem). "The journey not the arrival matters" - T.S. Eliot. Roads in Sumatra are notoriously horrendous & travel is so slow, so for our journey from Tangkahan to Bukit Lawang, ... Read more >
Tags: bad roads, bukit lawang, honda, indonesia, motorbike, motorcycle, road, roads, sumatra, tangkahan
INDONESIA | Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 | Views [1847]
Imagine 2 hours sitting on the most uncomfy seat you've ever sat on. Next, make that seat even narrower & on the back of a motorbike. Then picture the worst road you've ever been down which included such highlights as: *long sections of river stones ... Read more >
Tags: bad roads, boar, bridge, bridges, indonesia, motorbike, road, roads, sepeda motor, sumatra
INDONESIA | Saturday, 24 Jul 2010 | Views [1490] | Comments [3]
Yesterday we did our 2nd elephant trek. Our mahoot pointed to the ground where there had been a tiger's footprint in the mud 'several days ago'. (Dave is now on a computer beside me looking up tigers attacking elephants on utube hmmm...) This print is ... Read more >
Tags: elephant, elephant trek, elephants, horsefly, indonesia, mahoot, sumatra, tangkahan
INDONESIA | Friday, 23 Jul 2010 | Views [969] | Comments [9]
Dave had the best birthday ever. He may not be able to top it. (What the hell am I going to do for his 40th? Suggestions most welcome!) I have to be quick so here goes... Dave had 5 birthday songs altogether - in English, Indonesian & Dutch! ... Read more >
Tags: augustine, birthday, dave, elephant, elephant trek, elephants, indonesia, sumatra, tangkahan, trek
INDONESIA | Friday, 23 Jul 2010 | Views [1000] | Comments [5]
MY SMILE because everyone want to take photos of us ("Hello Mister. Can i make picture?") HEADLAMP coz in our jungle guesthouse there is only electricity from 8pm-11pm. TORCH to stop insects the size of birds slamming in into our faces coz ... Read more >
Tags: backpack, belongings, bring, indonesia, packing, sumatra, tangkahan
INDONESIA | Friday, 23 Jul 2010 | Views [918] | Comments [2]
Thanks everyone for your comments! Not enough time to respond till i get home :) While I escaped lightly, only being peed on by an orangutan who was in the tree above me, Dave was attacked by a Pig Tailed Macaque. Hereby known as the Macaque Attack.... Read more >
Tags: bukit lawang, indonesia, long tailed macaque, macaque, monkey, pig tailed macaque, sumatra
INDONESIA | Sunday, 18 Jul 2010 | Views [2134] | Comments [3]
We had a day in Bukit Lawang looking around before we signed up for a 2day jungle trek. We paid $4 each to go to the feeding platform where rehabilitated orangutans can go for supplementary feeding if they need it. We travelled by canoe across the ... Read more >
Tags: bohorok river, bukit lawang, hike, jungle, jungle trek, orangutan, rafting, sumatra, trek, white water rafting
INDONESIA | Sunday, 18 Jul 2010 | Views [1072] | Comments [2]
We were shown to our 2 storey bamboo hut in Bukit Lawang, threw our backpacks on the floor & stood on the balcony looking across the river to the jungle. Within seconds Dave spotted swaying trees & suddenly an orange arm appeared. An orangutan ... Read more >
Tags: bukit lawang, indonesia, long tailed macaque, macaque, orangutan, sumatra
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