Summer Voyager: 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