Sunday, October 14, 2012

:Medan-Lake Toba Day 2:

Day 2: waking up to fresh air and re-energize.
We had the buffet breakfast provided by our resort. Nothing fancy or delicious. Fried rice, fried meehon and fried indomie. And toast, coffee, tea. We had this for all 3 morning during our trip @@
Group photo while waiting for our tour guide/ driver to get ready.
Our first stop is Batu Kursi Raja Sialagan. Our entrance fees are all included in the package.
While our tour guide paying the entrance fees, we were approached by someone who we thought is the staff of this place. He brought us around and explain the history of this place to us.
Interesting story about history of Orang Batak.
This is the story teller. After finish telling us the story, he demand for IDR100k from us. We were shock! We then ask our tour guide and he explained that the entrance fees are included in the package but not the 'tour guide' from this place. Duish! We paid him IDR60k after negotiation. We feel so cheated. But looking at the good side, we won't have this interesting story to listen about if he didn't approach us. We feel cheated because he did not inform earlier!
We then continue our journey to Menara Pandang Tele.
Nice breathtaking view of Samosir Island up here :)
After that, we continue our journey to Pangururan Hot Spring. We had our lunch here, because if so then the entrance fees to the hot spring is free.
Indomie goreng.. again.
I tried the special burger. Haha.. I don't like it. It's different from Malaysian burger. I miss burger Ramly, all of sudden. And there is so many flies here!! See that?!
View while we having lunch =D
After lunch, we walk in to the hot spring pool.
It is sooooo damn hot! We don't even can dip our feet in @@
We then head to Tomok for shopping. Nothing to be buy actually. Just get some magnet as souvenirs.
Because our tour guide feel guilty for our disappointment of feeling cheated this morning, he spent us on this Patung Sigale-gale dance show. We didn't enjoy and join the dance neither. The first man in the row there who teach them how to perform the dance is kinda cheating also. Step 3: take out money from your pocket, move near the patung sigale-gale and place the money on its hand. Culture shock we have. @@
Our tour guide then brought us to Batak Museum. Nothing interesting here either. We then requested to go back to our resort. Today's trip is very tiring. We had been inside the car traveling around from 10am~4pm. And also having culture shock of the people there. Well, they just want to earn a living. :)
We go back to our resort and enjoy the evening view.
At night, we walk out from our resort to have dinner at Sekapur Sirih. Price is moderate expensive. Taste is OK.

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