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View bedroom78's Profile bedroom78 Flag Medan 21 Sep 15 9.45pm Send a Private Message to bedroom78 Add bedroom78 as a friend

In North Sumatra you can go trekking in Bukit Lawang, you can book it once you get there. Trekking is 25 euros for 1 day, 60 for 2, and 85 for 3. Bukit Lawang is about 3 - 4 hours from the airport in Medan, and as log as you arrive before about 4 in the afternoon you can get a taxi/minivan straight from the airport, about 30 quid, although can be done a lot cheaper, you will get assaulted by drivers as soon as you walk out, very friendly but can be a bit annoying. Medan is best avoided, although you can get a 5* hotel for about 70 quid a night.
Getting from Medan to Bali the cheapest airline is airasia if booked in advance

 

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View bedroom78's Profile bedroom78 Flag Medan 21 Sep 15 10.01pm Send a Private Message to bedroom78 Add bedroom78 as a friend

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View Kermit8's Profile Kermit8 Flag Hevon 21 Sep 15 10.32pm Send a Private Message to Kermit8 Add Kermit8 as a friend

If the earth tremors expect to be going for an involuntary swim to Darwin soon after.

 


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Pussay Patrol Flag 22 Sep 15 12.33am

Quote palace_in_frogland at 21 Sep 2015 6.06pm

Quote JohnB at 21 Sep 2015 5.55pm

Quote pefwin at 21 Sep 2015 5.50pm

Careful with which airline you fly.


Internally or just in general? I'm Emirates flights there and back but pretty sure I'll be on some unheard of carriers internally.

Emirates are great, no worries there. As far as domestic flights are concerned, there are 63 carriers operating in Indonesia. 59 of them are banned from flying in Europe.

I suggest you stick to the other 4.

so an airline which only operates in Indonesia is banned from flying in Europe?

 


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View davenotamonkey's Profile davenotamonkey Flag 22 Sep 15 3.32am Send a Private Message to davenotamonkey Add davenotamonkey as a friend

Quote JohnB at 21 Sep 2015 5.47pm

Hi All,

Off to Indonesia for a 3 week holiday in a few weeks. The idea is a few days North in Sumatra to jungle trek, then 2 and a bit weeks of Bali, Gili Islands and Lombok.

All I've booked is return flights and the rest in terms of hotels and internal flights I will sort whilst I'm out there.

Anyone got any tips on things to do and places to avoid?


For any country that likes to tie visitors to a stump and shoot them for drug offences (or indeed any country with a propensity for drug export), I've had my luggage wrapped in the airport, both inbound and outbound.

There have been instances of handlers slipping something "extra" into your luggage before it boards. The intended recipient at the destination doesn't take it out, and you're left explaining why you just brazenly transported 2kg of coke in your luggage.

If the luggage is "clingfilm wrapped", it foremost serves as a deterrent. If you receive the luggage and it looks like it's been tampered with, the film cut etc, you can inform the authorities. Better safe than sorry.

 

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View chris123's Profile chris123 Flag hove actually 22 Sep 15 7.32am Send a Private Message to chris123 Add chris123 as a friend

If you know how to swing a club, get a round in at Bali Handara - unbelievable course etched out of the crater of an extinct volcano.

 

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View mr. apollo's Profile mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 22 Sep 15 7.58am Send a Private Message to mr. apollo Add mr. apollo as a friend

Best Scuba diving in the world, if you are not a diver, learn before you go if you can.

I spent 10 weeks diving around Indonesia and it's an amzing place as that's where the three major world currents meet so the diversity is amazing.

 



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View palace_in_frogland's Profile palace_in_frogland Flag In a broken dream 22 Sep 15 8.02am Send a Private Message to palace_in_frogland Add palace_in_frogland as a friend

Quote Pussay Patrol at 22 Sep 2015 12.33am

Quote palace_in_frogland at 21 Sep 2015 6.06pm

Quote JohnB at 21 Sep 2015 5.55pm

Quote pefwin at 21 Sep 2015 5.50pm

Careful with which airline you fly.


Internally or just in general? I'm Emirates flights there and back but pretty sure I'll be on some unheard of carriers internally.

Emirates are great, no worries there. As far as domestic flights are concerned, there are 63 carriers operating in Indonesia. 59 of them are banned from flying in Europe.

I suggest you stick to the other 4.

so an airline which only operates in Indonesia is banned from flying in Europe?

It's an indicator of safety and maintenance standards. Indonesia has a dismal air safety record, even allowing for the fact that a high proportion of domestic flights are in tricky mountain terrain.

Their national airline, Garuda, was banned from European airspace for several years.

 

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View JohnB's Profile JohnB Flag 22 Sep 15 8.59am Send a Private Message to JohnB Add JohnB as a friend

Well based on all this, I can't wait to go!!

 

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View bedroom78's Profile bedroom78 Flag Medan 22 Sep 15 12.32pm Send a Private Message to bedroom78 Add bedroom78 as a friend

North Sumatra again, don't forget the active volcano that sometimes rains down ash on the airport

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View Cucking Funt's Profile Cucking Funt Flag Clapham on the Back 23 Sep 15 12.52pm Send a Private Message to Cucking Funt Add Cucking Funt as a friend

Don't watch The Year of Living Dangerously before you go.

 


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View Red-Blue-Yellow's Profile Red-Blue-Yellow Flag Surrey 23 Sep 15 1.03pm Send a Private Message to Red-Blue-Yellow Add Red-Blue-Yellow as a friend

I did business in Bali about 10-12 years ago. Fantastic place, live like a Lord for a couple of quid a day. Comments above about flying are spot on, very scary as the weather conditions plus the small and old aircraft make choosing the day you fly an important consideration. The Ferries are a bit better if you've the time for them.
Didn't spend much time elsewhere but I'd have stayed in Bali if I could have.

 


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