Lake Toba is the largest lake in Southeast Asia and one of the highlights visiting Sumatra. The nearest big city is Medan, and it takes about four hours by road to travel from Medan to Parapat (the main city on the lake). There is also a railway network in North Sumatra, with Medan as the […]
Kualanamu Airport Rail Link: The Medan airport train
The Kualanamu Airport Rail Link is an airport railway connecting Medan to Kualanamu International Airport. Kualanamu International Airport (KNO) is the airport serving Medan in North Sumatra. The airport is located 23 kilometres east of central Medan and not in Medan (thus it is not Medan International Airport). The airport opened in 2013, replacing Polonia […]
Hotel Review: Festive Inn, Medan – Indonesia
Hotel Name: Festive Inn. Address: Jl. Sambu, Pandau Hilir, Kota Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. I stayed at the Super OYO 3159 Festive Inn in Medan, Indonesia. I booked online at the rate of $8.23 USD per night, and I booked it for its price and location in Medan. I was passing through Medan after getting the […]
Hotel Review: Kama Hotel, Medan – Indonesia. Budget hotel in the Medan old town area
Hotel Name: Kama Hotel. Address: Jl. Jend. Ahmad Yani No.97, Kesawan, Medan, Sumatera, Indonesia. I stayed at the Kama Hotel in Medan, Indonesia. I booked online at the rate of $17.54 USD, and I booked it for its location in Medan. The Kama Hotel is on Jalan Jend. Ahmad Yani, which is the main road […]
Hotel Review: Vivo Stay, Medan – Indonesia
Hotel Name: Vivo Stay. Address: Jalan Surabaya No. 2-4, Ps. Baru Medan City Center, Medan, Indonesia. I stayed at Vivo Stay in Medan, North Sumatra. I booked online at the rate of 193,682 IDR ($12.68 USD), and I booked it for its price and location in Medan. I had been to Medan before but I […]
Palembang to Bandar Lampung by train – riding the coal-subsidised railway of South Sumatra
Sumatra is the sixth-largest island in the world with a population of over 50 million people, yet there are only a few railway lines on the island. There are plans to unite the current lines to form a trans-Sumatran railway that would travel from Medan to Bandar Lampung. This is a distance of over 1750 […]
Notes on Palembang – The port city of South Sumatra
Looking out of my window to the barely visible palm oil plantations below I was wondering what the hell I was doing voluntarily flying to Palembang in the midst of the great hazepocalypse of 2019. Apparently, I was arriving on a good day. It got so bad later on that flights were being delayed due […]
Hotel Review: RedDoorz Plus @ Jalan Raden Intan Lampung, Bandar Lampung – Indonesia
Hotel Name: RedDoorz Plus @ Jalan Raden Intan Lampung. Address: Jl. Raden Intan No.89, Bandar Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia. I stayed at RedDoorz Plus @ Jalan Raden Intan Lampung in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia. This was the second RedDoorz hotel in a row that I stayed at, and like my accommodation in Palembang I had no idea […]
Hotel Review: RedDoorz Plus near LRT Cinde Sudirman Palembang
Hotel review of RedDoorz Plus near LRT Cinde Sudirman Palembang, a budget hotel in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Hotel Name: RedDoorz Plus near LRT Cinde Sudirman Palembang. Address: Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.295, Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia. I stayed at RedDoorz Plus near LRT Cinde Sudirman Palembang in Palembang, Indonesia. I booked online for the rate of […]
Tsunami sites in Banda Aceh
“I lost 16 members of my family in the Tsunami”. When I arrived in Banda Aceh I wondered if people would be receptive to discussing the tsunami. I needn’t have worried as my taxi guide started telling me his experience as soon as we left the airport. He was at the airport when the tsunami […]
