Fri 12 Aug – Tangkahan to Medan

We just have one morning at Tangkahan left and we’re late for breakfast.  We pack and see some of our cohabitant animals.

Kids room TangkahanChichackMonkey

 

We forgot to buy some t-shirts at the elephant farm, so we walk back there through the little villages with chickens and cows.

Chickens Cows

 

 

Later in the morning we have some time to swim at the stream with the jumping rock and the hot spring.  We walk through the village where all the fruits and rubber trees are.

BananasRubber tree

We meet our old friend the village dog again at the swimming stream.

Village Dog

 

Quick lunch and Eddie our driver is ready for us.  Mega Depari and his staff help us with the bags over the bridge and we’re on the road.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9aKGMz0A2Y?rel=0

A sample of the Sumatra roads through the plantations.

Plantation road

After 4 hours or so we’re at K77 guesthouse in Medan which is very friendly and clean.  The owner arranges the hotel driver to take us to the airport in the morning.

We investigate Medan and have a “burger” at a warung which has exactly 4 chairs.  The burger is actually a thin bit of beef, egg and sauce and super spicy.  The kids are on fire.  We walk back and cross the road twice (fear of death etc) to look at a fish shop.  It starts raining and I spot the world’s largest cockroach and a remarkably thin rat.  K77 recommend you bring earplugs because the mosque is next door, but we have to get up before the muezzin calls to prayer.

 

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