Saturday, August 29, 2009

Medan

We arrived in Sumatra early Thursday evening after a very tight connection in Jakarta. Medan is a bustling, sultry city of 2 million people, and it is noticeably poorer and more chaotic than Yogyakarta.

After checking into our hotel, we had dinner at a street stall in a Ramadan fair right beside the main mosque in the city. The Ramadan fair was THE place to be, and we attracted a fair amount of friendly attention. In addition to dinner, my traveling companion purchased a pair of designer Gurci sunglasses and a pair of Converse flip flops (no trademark-infringing suit thwarting misspelling).

We left Medan early in the morning for Bukit Lawang.

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