Last day in Medan was really relaxed, went shopping with Ines and bought myself a batik (traditional gorgeous clothing). It was the first piece of clothing I've bought so far, can you believe it? Though I don't get why my backpack weighs 10,5 kilos now, it was 5,7 when I left Finland and I haven't really bought anything. Anyway, rest of the night we hung out with everybody, had dinner, etc. This morning I took a plane here in Batam, and my ferry for Singapore par...

I'm lying. Actually I'm back in Medan already but I didn't have a chance to update while in the woods:) So many things happened, let's see if I can remember everything at once. Starting from Christmas eve, it was really good in the end. I managed to skype, got myself a ticket almost out of the country (I'm departing to Batam on 30th, an Indonesian island 30mins ferryride away from Singapore) and the party we had was really nice. More bulehs (foreigners), less ...

Merry Christmas from Medan! (for me, not so merry at the moment cause I'm strugling to use skype with my loved ones...grrrr) It's not my favourite thing to be in a dusty and painfully humid city again, but Daryl and I came here for christmas so that we could more easily meet other couchsurfers. So we had a Christmas party last night with about 20 people, mostly locals but there were a few Polish, one Argentinian and one Romanian. It was really nice, we ate ...

It's almost Christmas already, can't believe it! For my last day in Bukittinggi (sunday), I had a really lovely time with Mrs. Hayati's family. It was so difficult to leave them! I took a bus to Lake Toba at 5pm, but of course it was a standard 2 hours late. I really felt sick on the way which is very uncommon for me, but I think it was because i accidently ate meat the night before:S And also the ride was unbelievably bumpy and the road twisting to both di...

Being jalan-jalan I'm enjoying the stunning lake Maninjau now. Came here yesterday, got a ride on motorcycle from Jemi. The view along the way were really undescribable (is that a word?). Daddy you would have loved it! By the way the road coming here fro the mountains had 40 u-turns. I can never be as relaxed anywhere else as I can be next to the water. Went swimming and canoeing last night, and saw a beautiful sunset! Also played a traditional Javanese woo...