Indonesia: Trip To Lake Toba

Had our breakfast before check out early in the morning. Yesterday, Amni called Bagus Taxi to booked seats for us to go Lake Toba. Our original plan is just to stay in Medan but two weeks before the journey she said she wanted to go to the lake. So, I canceled a night in Madani Hotel and book a hotel in Siantar Hotel in Parapat. 

The taxi came at about 8:30 a.m. at our hotel and drove us to the Bagus Taxi station. The station is based at the front of a small eatery. The chief or should I say the boss talked to us mostly about the fare and places of interest. The cost for a seat is RP65,000 which is cheap compared to rental vehicles (RP400,000 - RP500,000), it just rental vehicles tak payah kongsi dengan passenger lain ler. I paid for three seats since our tushies are quite big. Haha! Talk about the genes. They used Suzuki APV as their taxi. We waited for other passengers til 10:30 a.m. They are a family of three from Parapat and a Caucasian from Ukraine. 

Bagus Taxi & Car Rental (Medan-Parapat-Medan)

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Bagus Taxi Station in Medan

And we were good to go! We sat at the most back of the vehicle. Before we arrived at Parapat, all of us stop by at Restoran Miramar in Permatang Siantar. This atmosphere of the restaurant felt like the 80s. We ordered ayam bambu, gado-gado and rendang daging together with rice. Although the food was quite expensive I really enjoyed ayam bambu.

Ayam Bambu Best!!!

Then we continued the trip. The road to Parapat, toksah cakap laa. Similar to the road from KL-Gua Musang but worst. Jalan of course lubang-lubang & sempit. I must say Indonesian driver is one of the best driver in the world, may be? Supposely, when you used to drive or sit in front of the car you will get motion sickness if you ride at the back. Tapi dengan supir ni bawak laa kat jalan mana-mana pun. Amni and I didn't get nauseous at all. He even overtook other vehicles when the front vehicle was just 10 meters away. Two thumbs up!!! (b^_^)b

*Tapi kalau yang jenis tak biasa dengan kelajuan atau asik dok tempat passenger jer memang rasa gerun laa.

We arrived at Hotel Siantar Parapat exactly at 2:00 p.m. I don't recommend this hotel to you but it is cheap. The view A-. The only problem was the guest cannot set up the air conditioner and the WIFI signal didn't reach my room. The room in the afternoon was quite hot but at night it was quite cool. It also quite far from the Parapat Town. Amni immediately asked me to accompany her to walk around the town. Being lazy I said hari nak hujan. Hahahahaha!!! Then, both of us took a long nap with the not so well air conditioner. Nasib baik hujan.

View from the room

Nearly 6:00, the atmosphere getting darker and cooler. We got up and wanted to go around the town. Memang silap sangat laa tido tadi. Patutnya pi jalan-jalan dulu malam baru lepak-lepak. So, we walked ahead to the nearest taxi stand. We walked in the rain. Of course basahlah. On the way, a 4 wheeled drive car stopped and asked us where we are going. After talked to him, he offered us to drive us around the town with the price of Rp200,000, lepas tuh kurang jadi RP180,000. Amni, kaki jalan setuju je. Memang gamble ler kitaorang nih. Nasib baik badan besar-besar dan kurang seksi. Tak de laa jadi mangsa kena jual. Hahahahaha!!!

He drove us to the President Sukarno's runaway house. Malam-malam nak nampak apa. Gile tak syok. We came here for the view so we told him we wanted to book him for the next day. We just have a look around the night view of Parapat and Lake Toba, stopped at souvenir shop to buy some fridge magnet and went to Indomaret. We went back to the hotel without having dinner. The supir said we have to be careful if you want to eat over here. Although the restaurant mentioned halal it's not exactly halal. So it's better to eat at the hotel.

We went to a small jetty near the pool of the hotel to have a night view while surfing the net. The Wifi reception was clearer there. Amni brought out the snacks and drinks we bought at Indomaret and a comic book I brought along. Heh! I brought probably 8 comics from Malaysia. There was a family fishing at the jetty. We also heard a choir of singers sang Christmas song in the hall. Probably the natives. Their children were playing around at the pool and some of them sang K-pop songs. Ring Ding Dong pun ada. Heh!

Night View

Amni and the comic

The night ended with a cool and soothing breeze of the air of Lake Toba. We slept well.