Eat Pray Love

I believe America has seen this flick. This is one step ahead to introduce Bali as a lovable place :) Casted by Julia Robert and enjoy both of the movie and Bali's atmosphere! I can't wait for it to be comin soon any longer here!

Road Trip part 2

Ok, sorry for taking days to post the part 2. I had some busy days in school but I've got 4 days off! Yay! Last post was about Pekanbaru, Riau and straight to the next destination. Here we go!

Stop 4

Early in the morning, we all woke up to go through another long-time trip -_- Even much longer! Needed 15 hours to go to Bagan Siapi-api from Pekanbaru. They are both still in Riau island. Dad wanted to reunite hie relatives and old friends over there. We were gona stay one night in my dad's cousin's house after we got in. So we arrived at like 5PM, mom wanted to look around the city. She asked me to friend her while I was really limp. O-well-o-well! We took a pedicab to look around with my brother and there was nothing too interesting. Just there was so many swallows flew u above the sky. No wonder, they have swiftlet house in each place. Swallow saliva is really expensive to be sold and it's a profitable business. The city was too rowdy with swallows voices including the fake ones in swiftlet houses. The city was too small and crowded. 85% Chinese descents live around the city. I didn't take even a picture of the city cause I felt nothing about the city :p Just I had dinner with my family and I took some pics of the grubs :) Bagan Siapi-api is well-known with seafoods so we tried them.

Mix meatballs soup :9

Yay! Crabs with oyster sauce :9 :9

Stop 5

This was what I was waiting for :D Medan, North Sumatra! We went straight to Medan in the early morning and again took quite a long time *o* We got in Medan at like 5AM from 8AM we started to go. We straightly checked in a hotel for us and our driver. I fell asleep for 8 hours and got up at 12ish PM cause we had to meet up my grandfather's brother. But we had lunch first at one of famous noodles restaurant.

Hokkian noodles :9

Medanese mix meatballs

Call it "Emie"

Then we went to a historical place and it was Dutch heritage. The place called Maimun Palace and it was so Malayan. Unfortunately, the place wasn't too comfortable.

Right across the street to Maimun Palace

The pedicab in Medan

The Maimun Palace

Can you read it? :D

Behind the story of Maimun Palace

Then we back to the hotel and had a shower. Towards the evening, we hunted many grubs. I was really hyped!! Back side of our hotel, there was a night food street. No diet is valid that day! :D

A new hotel fyi ;)

Me! :p

Back side of our hotel ^^

She cooked kind of traditional cake but I forgot the name XD

Pork satay

Called "Lapchoi" from a Cantonese language

In the next few hours, we went to another night food street.

Indonesian Martabak

This is more into a chinese grub since Medan has so many Chinese descents too ;) called fried Ci Cong Fan. Tastes like fried rice noodles (contains of pork as well)

Then the next day in the morning, we wanted to catch up Toba Lake which is famous in Medan. Ok, I was giving up. Taking a long time sitting in the car was like a common thing for me so I didn't complain anymore. But we had to stay one night in the middle between the city and Toba Lake. So we stopped by in Pematang Siantar. We arrived at 4PM then we just had dinner around the hotel. Nothing to tell about Pematang Siantar cause there was nothing too ;) Just Pematang Siantar is famous with its foods.

Sweet and sour fish :9

Fried crispy chicken :9

The next day, we went to Toba Lake as the last destination. Unpleaseantly, Toba Lake has been polluted. Yeah, we regret a little ;) Maninjau and Singkarak Lakes were even much more beautiful. But I found a scarce monkey. I don't know what type is it.

The Toba Lake

Samosir island

We were on the speedboat :p

See?

Look!

As Toba Lake is the last destination, we were heading back to Jakarta but not directly. We had to spend some nights in the hotel cause the driver couldn't afford to drive too long time. We just stayed in a town which we hadn't stopped.

Stop 6

We stopped in Jambi for 2 nights. I really liked Jambi cause there was still quiet rather than Jakarta >.<>

View from my hotel's room at 9 level

Mix chicken and beef peanut satay. Jambi is famous with peanut satay :9

Stop 7

We headed back to Palembang, South Sumatra again just for staying one night. I hadn't try this before

Egg Martabak with potato curry

We went back to Lampung to catch the ferry to Jakarta. I wanted to stop in Lampung but school time had come so no longer time to stop by >.<>

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Road Trip part 1

Eh up! Been a while, I was disappeared. How yall doin? Last week, I had family trip by car. We headed around Sumatra Island. I'm just a bit distracted how to tell you all the trip :p We were gone for like 2 weeks from Sept 5th - 19th. That was our first road trip to Sumatra. I was quite hyped yet done in. It needed 12hours-ish from one state to another state. My dad can't drive out the local city so we paid a driver.

Ok, lets start with :

Stop 1

On the 5th, we spent along the night in the ferry to go to Palembang, South Sumatra. First arrival was Lampung but we didn't look around. We went straight to Palembang. We got in Lampung at like 4ish am and stopped in Palembang at 4pm :S 12 hours sitting in car made me limp! We then looked for a hotel to stay for 1 day. At night, dad drove the car with us and we let the driver to rest up. We went for some grubs and Palembang's trademark :)

Ampera Bridge above the Musi River

Kuto Besak Castle

Pempek :D One of the best!

Tekwan

Read bean Ice

Then before we leaved out the town to go to another state in the morning, we were told by people in town to try Palembang egg noodles so we caught up ones :) With no doubt, it was the best noodles ever!

Stop 2

From Palembang, we went straight to Bukit Tinggi and that took longer time to sit in the car :S Needed 22hours to find the city and the hotel!!! I was getting limper. At 6 in the morning with all sleepy eyes, we accidentally found the beautiful lake named Singkarak. What the best creature of God! We stopped by for a moment to take some pics.

Singkarak Lake

Barisan Hill (the longest hill in the world I guess!)

Once more, we left the driver to rest up and dad drove around the town with us! Oh one thing, all muslims here were in Ramadan so they were fasting from Aug 10th - Sept 10th. Since Jakarta is a multi-culture, so people who are non-muslims could get foods freely but at Bukit Tinggi which is 90% muslim, they were not allowed to open all restaurants. So, we starved until 6 pm. We just looked around the town at night and it was so amazing! I ♥ the city so much! Besides the cool air, the city is well-organized. That's how they call Bukit Tinggi as the city tours :)

Jam Gadang at night (Big Watch)

Padang satay :9 Delicioso!

We checked out from hotel in the morning to catch up some sightseeings. Needed about 2 hours to go there. But it's all worth!

Jam Gadang in the morning (Big Watch)

The coolest grand canyon named Ngarai Sianok!! I was so amazed :O

The hill

Japan's secret headquarters when Indonesia was invaded by Japan. It has 132 rungs to go down there and I was exhausted to climb up. lol

Rice field on the edge of the road! I ♥ the nature ^^

The second best God's creature! Maninjau Lake

Small hidden waterfall

See the water!!!!

Weirdo bonsai!

Stop 3

We went straight to Pekanbaru, Riau from Bukit Tinggi and again took quite a long time : 16hours in car. I guessed I would die soon. lol. Pekanbaru is my mom's hometown so we visited our relatives over there and stayed 1 night in my uncle's house. Pekanbaru is hot and nothing interesting cause it's more into fuel industry. But I like the grubs though! :D

Lontong Pecel and tasted really spicy! :D

Okay peeps, I'll post the others later. There are still hundreds tale. lol! I'm mindless rite now and school starts tomorrow morning :) I'm quite hyped yet lazy :p Soon!