Zue's Personal Blog

Last few days, we visited so many places already. From the hill area with cool weather to the City of Medan with hot weather. Unfortunately, our body cannot accept the drastic changes. We started to suffer sore throat, flu and my dad having fever. Luckily, he recover fast after received an injection from a local clinic there. Nothing much to do, we just went back to  Pasar Ikan since the first time we've been there most of the shops closed since its weekend. Just windows shopping.We shopped a lot at Samosir Island and Berastagi. Our return flight will depart at 19:00 pm local time and driver will get us from the hotel 2 hours before departure. But, we have to check out before 12:30 pm, so we decided to  extend a room till 5pm and move all the luggage there. My parent can rest too since they are not feeling well while my friend and i went to the nearest Mall. Good bye Antares Hotel and Medan............ We arrived in Penang on time . Thanks to  PT. LOVE

We stayed at Danau Toba International Cottage for only 1 night and  back to Medan the next day.  We stop at the Fruit Market to buy some Berastagi's souvenirs . Believe it or not, the price a lot more cheaper than at the samosir island for the same item. It just that the word "berastagi" and "lake toba" make it different.Lots of fruits and flowers can be found here. The strawberry also cheap.  This fruits known as "Pisang Kaki". It my first time to see how the tree looks like. Never imagine before. The fruits so sweet. I want to buy more but  we still have few days here till depart. Strawberry is so cheap here. All of them cost me RM 14 only. A small pack of strawberry sold for only Rp. 4000 less than RM 2.  After shopping, we now heading back to Medan. But we stop at few place to take last photo of lake toba view. It's lunch time when we reached Medan City. So, Mr. Asdo took us to a local restaurant.   T

After visiting Lake Toba and Samosir Island, we are then heading to Berastagi. Berastagi , usually pronounced Brastagi, with an elevation of 1220m, close to Lake Toba is a small, normal busy Indonesian town. Berastagi is located 70km from Medan. It does not rely on tourism so you'll get to see the locals getting on with their lives rather than hassling tourists to make a living. There is 2 active volcanoes close to Berastagi. Sibayak, closest to town, 2100 meters high and fairly easy to climb and a great place to view the sunrise. And Sinabung, 2400 meters high, quite steep and difficult to climb, often getting on your hands and knees to climb at times. 40 minutes from Berastagi is the Sipiso - piso waterfall ('like a knife') on the northern edge of Lake Toba. The waterfall is 120m high and is formed by an underground river which flows out into the Toba caldera. Unfortunately, it's raining the moment we