Showing posts with label sumatra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sumatra. Show all posts

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Indonesia - Sumatra - Lake Toba - 1982

Coming back from Nais, stopped at Lake Toba for a few days. It was very pretty and scenic. Walked over and around the island in the centre of the lake.

Indonesia - Nias - 1982

It was a hard trip to get to Nias. Bus across sumatra, then an overnight ferry to guninstoli and then another overnight ferry to telok dalam. malaria was rife and centipede bites were nightly. still, a beautiful place.

A few guys got sick from infections or illnesses. The trip back was just as hard. the villages in the mountains were like a step back in time. it wasn't that long ago your head would have been a trophy.




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