Today I will tell you
something about our little Sumatra trippin’ we did few months ago so sit back
and relax.
We started the trip from
Padang which is a capital city of West Sumatra and we live around 1h away. We
flew from Padang to Medan which is in North Sumatra. The point of this trip was
to go to Bukit Lawang which is one of the last places on Earth where orangutans
live in wild nature and then from there we went to Lake Toba which is one of
the biggest and deepest crater lakes on Earth. And both of these places are
near from Medan. So we went to Medan one day before we were supposed to meet
our friends there.
One day before this trip I
found one guy on couchsurfing and he told me that we can stay with him for that
one night. So we arrived to Medan and took a really expensive taxi from the
airport to the nearest shopping mall because it was the only name of something
in Medan we knew. After few hours of waiting we met with this guy and went to
his place. Little room somewhere in the middle of Medan but very nice. He did
speak English and was an agnostic what is very rare in Sumatra hehe. Very cool
guy. There was only one big mattress in the room but big enough for three
people. So we were talking the whole evening about shit and then few minutes
before we went to sleep he told us that he is George Michael. Another shock for
us because homosexuality is really repressed in Indonesia. We are not
homophobic but telling us few minutes before we went to sleep on one mattress
that he likes bananas more than peaches is a little bit weird. He didn’t try
anything during the night so both of us woke up in the morning without any
trauma after ass rape.
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| the Great Mosque in Medan |
Ok long story short, the next
day our Slovakian friends came. One guy and one girl from Bali, another girl
from Jogjakarta in Java and one girl who came to visit us from Slovakia. We
were staying one more night in Medan so we found cheap hostel but for that
price it was veeeery nice. Quick shower and lets go for beers. Wuhuuu. But
there are not many places in Medan to drink because it’s very close to Aceh
which is one of the most Islamic parts of the world. It took us some time to
find a place with beers but we were successful.
Then after few beers we
decided that we should go to Bukit Lawang early in the morning to be there
soon. We arranged a car with a driver for the morning to take us there. We
talked about the price before the drive but after we arrived to Bukit Lawang
the driver thought that he could make some more money from us so he kept
following us everywhere when we were looking for accommodation. I don’t like to
admit it but that’s very Indonesian. They try to make as much money as they can
of foreigners. Even if we say that we are poor student who study here thanks to
Indonesian government and their money.
And I will write about Bukit Lawang
tomorrow so you don’t have to read a lot at once. How nice am I to you ha?
