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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia Sumatra was one big bus ride for me, unfortunately i only get a 30 day visa in indoensia and being too yorkshire and tight to pay for a plane ticket i decided to get two buses that would total in all 56 hours of scenery viewing, car crashes, lorrys that had fallen down clifftops, locals rioting, thunderstorms, bats, giant insects...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I like hate Medan said my 17year old brother of the capital of North Sumatra. I don't quite agree with him but I don't love city either. The entire metropolis reminded me of the outskirts of Kathmandu like the area near Tribhuvan that's a rundown shamble old bricks mangy monkeys and polluted rivers. I didn't see any wildlife in Medan itself but I enjoyed having a beer at a pub on a sma...
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media jakarta (Free subscription) | yesterday
... as "hunting trips", with participants spread out to five different locations across the country . Medan, Yogyakarta, Banjarmasin, Manado and Lombok are set to provide great experiences for the finalists' cameras. The cities have been chosen on the basis of their tourism potential and in the framework of bolstering Visit Indonesia Year 2008 GIIPC 2008, which sets out to show the wealth of...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... to hear a long-winded diatribe about the horrors of our supposed twelve-hour bus ride from Medan to Banda Aceh. Sorry, not this time. I mean, don't worry, you still get the long-winded diatribe (whew!), but the rest may surprise you. Envision: roomy, reclining seats with foot rests, individually adjusted air-con and reading lights, an on-board crapper and (gasp!) eleven and a half hours...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... More on that story later. Now, back to Indonesia briefly. The second night before we left Medan we were walking through our hotel lobby when suddenly I'm doing a double-take. You've gotta be kidding! Jeff? 15,000 miles from home and we run into Jeff Wasylak. I've been wondering when something like that was going to happen. It always seems to no matter where you go. For those of you that...
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bloglis zamanku (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Massa FPI Demo, Istana Jadi Lautan Putih Jakarta - Sekitar pukul 12.45 WIB, Rabu (27/8/2008) ribuan anggota FPI tiba di depan Istana Negara. Istana Negara berubah menjadi lautan putih karena dipenuhi massa berpakaian serba putih. Massa FPI menuntut pembebasan pimpinan mereka Habib Rizieq dan juga pembubaran Ahmadiyah. Akibat aksi tersebut Jalan Medan Merdeka Utara, yang terletak di depan Istana...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
A couple tend to their child who is suspected to be infected with bird flu at a hospital in Medan on August 6. Japan's Sharp Corp. has said that it has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 percent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu within 10 minutes.
