Month: March 2018

Bukit Lawang

Arri­ved in Bukit Lawang Ma-il lets us out on the par­king lot and gives us the tip to rent some car­ri­ers for our lug­ga­ge, becau­se it is still a small stretch to the actu­al hotel. Pff, car­ri­er for the lug­ga­ge, we do not need. Final­ly we want to do a jungle trek­king tomorrow,

After the mos­que visit we go to Bukit Lawang. We have a three-hour dri­ve ahead of us. Becau­se of the rush hour, which seems to be 24 hours a day here, it takes 45 minu­tes until we lea­ve Medan at all and somehow I get the impres­si­on that the city does­n’t want to stop. For me as a Euro­pean everything

At zero eight hundred we meet our dri­ver Ma-il on the par­king lot again to dri­ve the long way to Toba Lake. Today we have 8 hours of jour­ney ahead of us and first we have to go back to Medan and then fur­ther east. Of cour­se the­re is no direct road from Bukit Lawang to

Mosque and Sultan’s Palace

In the mor­ning the anger of the evening befo­re has com­ple­te­ly subs­i­ded and we meet full of thirst for action with Ma-il, who wel­co­mes us with a mischie­vous grin. First we visit the Sultan’s Palace in Medan, which was built in 1888. Here the car­ni­va­li­stic tou­rist can borrow

Final­ly, tra­vel group „suns­hi­ne“ has got tog­e­ther again to fly to the end of the world. After weeks of plan­ning, various decis­i­on dif­fi­cul­ties on the rou­te, gui­de recrui­ting via Whats­App and last-minu­te resche­du­ling, we actual­ly mana­ged to put tog­e­ther a mana­geable trip

Myan­mar has long been at the top of my list. Espe­ci­al­ly sin­ce I saw a docu­men­ta­ry about the bal­loon fes­ti­val in Taung­gyi, a small town near Lake Inle, it was clear to me: I have to go the­re. I don’t just want to be the­re, I want to be right in the midd­le of it and, best of all, in the front row.

So