As you may have noticed by now, I really enjoyed my stay in Lake Toba. There is something about the surroundings and the people that I hadn’t experienced before on my travels. One of the more interesting tourist spots on...
Read MoreArrived back in Medan yesterday from Lake Toba. It was sad to leave as it is such a beautiful and relaxing place. It was market day in Parapat which is on the mainland, so many of the locals were catching the ferry from the...
Read MoreIt’s my third day here I Lake Toba and I would have to say it is has been one of the nicest places I have been in Asia. I heard that it was a more popular place for backpackers in the 1990s, but most of those backpackers...
Read MoreI went to Bukit Lawang today which is only 86 kilometers from Medan but took over three hours, battling the Medan traffic and being cramped in the back of a mini-van that had seen better days. The road was full of pot holes and...
Read MoreI am staying near a huge mosque in Medan. Indonesia is predominantly an Islamic country with around 88 per cent of the country Muslim, which is around 200 million people, making it the populous Muslim nation in the world....
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