Sumatra Experience

Hazy purply-blue water, stunning place

Advantages: Beautiful paradise & relaxation - recommended
Disadvantages: Lack of tourism

We took a trip to Lake Toba just over a year ago on a 4 month backpacking trip round South East Asia and would go back tomorrow given half a chance. It was one of the places we'd heard to much about and our Rough Guide gushed over the natural surroundings and beauty of the place so we knew it had to be one of our top stops. WHERE IS LAKE TOBA? Lake Toba in Sumatra is the biggest lake in Indonesia and is a truly beautiful place worth a visit if ...
...the remaining crater became a lake over time, now containing a central island in it (Samosir Island) over 5km long. The lake itself is around 35km long if I remember correctly, pretty amazing, and quite deep (half a kilometre, you wonder what lurks under there at that depth!). So based on the size of the lake (20 miles?), take a moment to imagine the size of the original volcano... pretty impressive. Toba was populated originally by the Batak from ...

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Review of Lake Toba (Sumatra)

Sumatra, beautiful and unspoilt for travellers

Advantages: friendly people, beautiful nature
Disadvantages: Difficult travel conditions

Sumatra is huge, really huge. It is the sixth largest island in the world or more than twice as large as the the British Isles. It is also a little explored island of rainforest, volcanoes and wildlife beyond imagining. Here it is still possible to get off the map and voyage in a tropical land. Indonesia has had its problems in the past decade or so and in Aceh there had been a long-running insurrgency which has been settling down in the past few ...
...and both rebels and the government participating in regional elections. The FCO still advises caution in the area but provided the traveller is sensible and avoids political discussion or action then there is no need to avoid Aceh. This issue as well as problems in other areas of Indonesia has led to a serious downturn in the number of tourists visiting the area. Whilst the downfall in tourism has serious consequences for local people it has a positive ...

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Review of General: Sumatra

We Island - How To Getting There

Advantages: amazing diving site, enjoy vacation, nice view
Disadvantages: This beautiful island can only reach by Ferry boat one time a day

Enjoy my vacation for a week on We Island (Pulau We), Indonesia, made me fall in love with this island. Actually, this island is only a small island. But here there is a small town called Sabang. The city was to be special because it is the most western city in Indonesia. We Island ringed with beautiful beaches and amazing dive sites. There are three primary diving and snorkeling zone; Gapang, Iboih, and Rubiah Island. The last site is an Indonesian ...
...know how to getting there… This beautiful island can only reach by Ferry boat. It will takes an hour from Ulee Lheu port in Banda Aceh. Then, you can around this small island with minibus or rental car that waiting in Balohan port (We Island). Don’t worry about the accomodation! There are many hotels, homestays, and bungalows with variety of price in Sabang town or on the two miles long beach*** ...

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Review of Pulau We (Sumatra)

My City and Province

Advantages: Nice natural living, good for health.
Disadvantages: There is no international airport in the city.

...to tell you a about Jambi in brief. Who know that it might attract you to visit Jambi. Where is Jambi? Jambi is in Southern Sumatra, and geographically it is located between 0°45' to 2°45' south latitude and 101°10' to 104°55' east longitude. How to reach Jambi? There is no an international airport in Jambi. It means, international visitors cannot have a flight directly to Jambi, but from other international airports, such as Polonia Medan (the ...
...– Java). Visiting Jambi via Singapore is possible, too, and it does not take much time of yours. It takes about 5 or 6 hours to reach Jambi by ship (the route is Singapore – Batam – Jambi). Visiting Jambi via Jakarta is a good idea, too. After arriving at Jakarta, you can continue your flight to Jambi. The airfare is not expensive – it is about Rp 300,000 or GBP20,69 (GBP1 = Rp14,500). It takes you only about 45 minutes. And visiting Jambi from ...

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Review of Jambi (Sumatra)

Be on the alert in Medan

Advantages: too easy visit from singapore
Disadvantages: Verymuch the local criminals and mavia a violent and abusive

Medan is a large city for areas of Sumatra, most of the products that needed a lot of people in Sumatra are sent from the field, such as Aceh that import most of the needs of the population of Medan, the field has a large amount of sea and is currently building the international airport representatives, I have more than 5 times dating medan as all travel to Aceh should be through the field if the dating of the air, sea and land, Medan can visit through ...
...air and sea travel. Medan is a city that is quite vulnerable and dangerous, if you have not been go to medan and should not want go to medan two or smth, better entourage came together. People here speak with a loud and have a certain rough, not the one time you shop wayside any way, let alone touch the goods and you do not buy it, you will be dealing the local criminals and mavia a violent and abusive, if you do not have a very important purpose ...

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Review of Medan (Sumatra)