Adventure Travel to Sumatra Indonesia

Lake Toba is in the center of Sumatra and you can get there from Medan by road. Take a bus. Typical food in Indonesia is rice and rendang or meat. Padang food is served in a restaurant where they bring you an array of food and you eat what you want. Sambal is chilli sauce and it is the best sauce ever. Padang food is very hot and spicy. Danau Toba is a quiet place in the mountains where you can rest and relax. Stay at an island in the center of Lake Toba. You can hire a bike to go sight seeing around the countryside. The batak people live in old houses with sloping roofs. Animism still plays an important part in Batak life. The Dukun or witch doctor looks after the health of the Batak people.

North Sumatra and Bukit Lawang is where the orang utans are preserved. The area is a national park and there is an orang utan sanctuary. get a guide to take you to treak through the jungle to see the orang utans. There may also be a danger of bandits. You will also find poisonous leeches. So do not let them suck your blood. You can see the orang utans in their natural habitat if you are quiet and very lucky. Illegal logging has decreased their habitat. The Restoration center tries to introduce domesticated orangutans back into the wild. They are an incredible orange colour. It is a special experience to be up close to an orangutan in the jungle.

Try rafting down the river in an inner tube.

Pulau Nias is out to sea from the port of Sibolga where you catch the ferry. Nias is a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean. The people of Nias lived in isolation for thousands of years. During festivals the people of Nias do the centuries old fighting dances with shields and spears and swords. Stone jumping is an old tradition.

At Lagundri Bay the surfers congregate from around the world to ride the world famous waves. It has a good reef, a good shape and a good barrel. It is a right handed wave. For years the surfers tried to keep the fantastic wave secret but now everyone knows about it and it gets very crowded.

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