Trip to Lake Toba Day 3(last day)- 13/10/18

We woke up at 6am for the sunrise and I got my continental breakfast, made up of muesli and different type of fruit. Our guide named Padok brought us to 4 different village with the price of 750,000IDR. It would be cheaper with scooter but is a rainy day so it is out of our choice.

Our first stop is Ambarita village which is famous for its Stone Chair due to its historic relics from the pre-Christian era.

Enemy are being slaughtered and cook with the buffalo.

Our second stop is Simanindo village- Hutabolon Museum. 

It is the inheritance of Sidauruk King. The king has more than 10 wives and called his wives huta thus the place with the name og hutabolon and after years the government turned this house into a museum in 1969. The museum is surrounded by several traditional houses. It features some reminiscences of Batak tradition. These include Solu Bolon (a traditional boat), tunggal panaluan, and much more.

The most famous item is tungkot. It had numerous functions back then. The locals mostly used it for fighting. 

Then we had chance to appreciate the traditional dance and even danced with them.

For instance, Sigale-Gale Dance, Muda-Mudi, Persembahan Dance, etc. The performers will do their job if there are many and there is no performance on Sunday. The time for performance is normally 10.30 and 11.30am.

Our third stop is Aek Rangat Hotspring. My sister accidentally broke one of the pipe that lead the hot water to hotspring pool while we headed back frm the source of the hotspring. Luckily none of us get injured.

Lastly, we headed to the last stop, Tomok Village, well known for its tomb and souvenir street. This village famous with Tomok Batak Traditional House, Sigale gale, King Sidabutar Tomb, and Tomok Batak Museum (5k entrance fee).

Ambarita village









simenindo village

batak tradisional dance






Aek Rangat

Batak traditional food

Tomok village

Trip to Lake Toba Day 2- 12/10/18

We woke up at 5am to grab the sunrise view in One Tree Hill and it turned up to be to misty. With slight disappointment we left but it was still breathtaking . The rest of the day was rainy. We still insisted on going for jungle trek for the Twin waterfall and it was pretty short trip, estimated 1hour to and fro, then we went to labyrinth walk which turn out to be a maze walk and visited the agro farm. Jessica was really nice as she introduced all different type of tea. My preference was the loquat tea and misai kucing. The coffee that we tried was the french toasted tea. 

Little did we knw how the rotan and buah alpukat actually means alvocado.

Also we never knew how carrot was suppose to look like.

We tried the red coffee and it tasted pretty sweat uncooked.

we were told selazelena used to cure asthma.

When we were having lunch in kodon kodon cafe, I started to have the thought that why the lake appeared to be stagnant. I was told that we used to compare the velocity of object from the nearby one but from afar, is hard for us to do so and tht's y we thought is stagnant.

After lunch we headed to sipiso piso waterfall

The Sipisopiso is a plunge waterfall in the Batak highlands of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is formed by a small underground river of the Karo plateau that hurls itself from a cave in the side of the lake Toba caldera some 120 meters down to lake level.

After 10min walked down, we arrived at the bottom of the waterfall

We continued our journey to samosir and it took us almost 4 hours and I love the place.

Morning View from One tree hill

Our luxurious breakfast

 Twins waterfall

the maze

coffee bean

tea plantation

sipiso-piso waterfall

Trip to Lake Toba, Indonesia Day 1- 11/10/18

Our flight was 8am early in the morning. We had McD big breakfast before departed and our destination is Lake Toba, which well known as natural lake result from volcano with the depth of 500metres, this section of land was push up from the cauldera.

Once we arrived, we get on the grab which at first promise to charge 2000 thousand IDR for 4days which we agreed on.Well, there are misunderstanding going on that I am gonna elaborate more after.

We arrived in Taman simalem resort in the evening. It was raining season so is quite misty.

We went to Tongging for the lakeview and took plenty of photos. It was getting darker and cold so we decided to have dinner in Pangambatan Cafe. The price for food was pretty reasonable. We order nasi goreng simalem. The batak performance was going on and they sang a few chinese song.

The night wasn't pleasant as I expected as our driver was asking for more money that he agreed at first.

We figured out it was too much so we decided to let him go after sending us to samosir the day after.

I slept pretty early. The weather was so cold and I could barely take it.

View From Simalem

Tongging view point







our dinner in pengambatan cafe

expenses for trip

bali day 8- last day

The next day we all woke up pretty and and only went for breakfast when only half an hour left. The buffet was really nice though and we chilled on hotel for a bit before proceed to the mall with the shuttle. I bought the book china rich girlfriend for ben and then we headed to the airport.

Our total budget is within rm1000 including flight

bali day 7

Our plan today was to visit the gitgit waterfall( entrance of 15000 per pax) and not surprisingly we took an hour plus to take photo before proceed to next destination which is bali swing. There are plenty of those in bali and lovina has those with cheapest price. We got the one in lovewaterfall wanagiri with cheapest price which is 80000 per pax fr unlimited swing.

We stayed for almost 3 hours before heading to kuta. We had pop mee for lunch this time.

The swing was real cool. We had the first try with the safety harness. For better photo effect we took that off for second time.

Uncle Robert was really nice. He told us that he can earn up to 1000000 IDR per day but for us, he only took 500000IDR.

We sang all along the way and he shared his taste of music with us as well=)

After dropped us off in central kuta park, he left, reluctantly.

We had dinner in warung anugerah.

Villa Radha Swari

Gitgit waterfall 

Love waterfall

Meditation

bali swing

our best driver Robert