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Fifteen day program North and West Sumatra
North and West Sumatra tour
Tourcode SUMTJ 15
- Day 1
- Arrival in Medan with flight ...We will fetch you from the airport.
Overnight stay in Hotel Deli River
situated just outside Medan in the middle of a tropical garden.
Here you can rest after the long journey or make a walk in the neighbourhood.
- Day 2.
- Medan - in the morning city tour of Medan taking in the remaining Dutch,
English, Chinese and Malay architecture. After this depart to Bohorok/Bukit
Lawang, the orang utan rehabilitation centre in Gunung Leuser nature
reservation. In this impressive nature reserve you can see the orang utans in their
natural environment. This involves a walk through the jungle. The sportive hiker can take
exciting jungle trips here. However walkers must be fit and have suitable,
large profile shoes. Overnight stay in Bukit Lawang Cottage.
- Day 3.
-
Bukit Lawang - own program.
Overnight stay in Bukit Lawang Cottage.
- Day 4.
-
Bukit Lawang - Brastagi via Medan. Enroute stop at Sikulikap waterfall.
In the afternoon you will arrive at the cool mountain resort of Brastagi.
Here you can view 2 active volcanoes, Sibayak and Sinabung.
Overnight stay in hotel
Brastagi Cottage in Brastagi.
- Day 5.
-
Brastagi - Samosir. After breakfast leave for Prapat at the famous Lake
Toba. On the way stops at the Sipiso Piso waterfall, at the longhouse of
King Purba and at pineapples, coffee and ginger plantations.
In the afternoon you arrive in Prapat at lake Toba. Overnight at hotel
Toledo at Samosir. Your room has beautiful view directly on the lake side.
- Day 6.
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Samosir tour. After breakfast excursion to several Toba Batak villages at
the island. Visit to the villages Ambarita, Simanindo and Tomok. Overnight
at hotel
Toledo.
- Day 7.
-
Samosir - own programme. Overnight stay at hotel Toledo.
- Day 8.
-
Samosir - Sibolga.
In the early morning you will cross the lake to Prapat from where you leave
for Sibolga. Along the southern shores of lake Toba with its lovely
ricefields and huge Batak kings' graves you travel through the Toba
highlands. During the trip you will pass hot sulphur springs at Sipoholon.
In Tarutung, the centre of the Protestant Batak church, you turn towards
the direction of Sibolga, the old harbour town on the Indian ocean. By an
amazing road with a thousand curves, straight through the Bukit Barisan
ridge, you will arrive late in the afternoon in Sibolga, the town where
time seems to stand still.
You will lodge in a nice hotel Sibolga Marina on the island of Poncan
Gadang, 20 minutes by boat from Sibolga.
- Day 9.
-
Sibolga/Poncan Gadang - own program. You can enjoy the heavenly
surroundings on this Robinson Crusoe island. You can also dive and snorkel
over beautiful coral gardens. Diving equipment can be rented on the island.
Overnight stay in hotel Sibolga Marina on Poncan Gadang.
- Day 10.
-
Sibolga - Bukittinggi.
The route to Bukittingi in the Minangkabau highlands brings you again
right through the Bukit Barisan mountainical ridge of Sumatra. It is an
impressive tour in which you drive through a wall of tropical rain forest.
En route you pass the equator in the place Bonjol. In the afternoon we
arrive in the cool and pleasant town of Bukittingi. Overnight stay in
hotel Pusako in Bukittinggi.
- Day 11.
-
Bukittinggi - city tour and excursions. In the morning there is a tour
to the former Fort De Kock, situated on a strategic point on a high
mountain. You then visit the market and the famous 'Karbouwengat' (Ngarai
Sianok), the impressive canyon beside the city. Around noon we depart for
the Minangkabau Palace in Pagaruyung where you will see various aspects of
the matriarchal society of the Minangkabau. Our next destination is the
Harau nature reserve, famous for its huge rock formations and delightful
butterflies. En route you pass Batusangkar where you will see historic
rock inscriptions in Hindu-Indian Sanscrit language. In
the evening we return to Bukittinggi via lake Singkarak.
Overnight stay in hotel Pusako in Bukittinggi.
- Day 12.
-
Bukittinggi - Maninjau. Today you proceed to Maninjau via the silver
town of Kota Gadang on the other side of the Karbouwengat. For the
sportive hiker the one hour walk through the deep Karbouwengat to
Kota Gadang is a must!
From Kota Gadang you will be picked up by the car for departure to the
mysterious lake Maninjau, descending to the lake via the road with
forty four curves. The lake is clean and still and excellent for swimming.
Overnight stay right at hotel Nuansa Maninjau at the lake Maninjau.
- Day 13.
-
Maninjau - own programme.
- Day 14.
-
Maninjau - Padang. Today you go to Padang via the beautiful Anai
valley with the Anai waterfall. The harbour city of Padang on the Indian
ocean is the economic centre of West Sumatra. On arrival there is a
city tour of Padang. Overnight stay in Hotel Pangeran Beach in Padang.
- Day 15.
-
Padang - transfer to airport for the flight to your next destination.
Price
The price of the 15 day tour for
2 to 3 persons is US $ 970,- p.p.
4 to 6 persons US $ 850,- p.p.
7 to 10 persons US $ 750,- p.p.
Single room supplement US $ 270,-
The price is inclusive of:
- overnight accommodation in good medium class hotels
- breakfast daily
- transport in comfortable air-conditioned minibus or bus
- fuel
- driver, his meals and overnight accommodation costs
- entrance and parking fees
- cost of the ferry Parapat - Samosir and vice versa
- Day 1
- Arrival in Medan with flight ...We will fetch you from the airport.
Overnight stay in Hotel Deli River
situated just outside Medan in the middle of a tropical garden.
Here you can rest after the long journey or make a walk in the neighbourhood.
- Day 2.
- Medan - in the morning city tour of Medan taking in the remaining Dutch,
English, Chinese and Malay architecture. After this depart to Bohorok/Bukit
Lawang, the orang utan rehabilitation centre in Gunung Leuser nature
reservation. In this impressive nature reserve you can see the orang utans in their
natural environment. This involves a walk through the jungle. The sportive hiker can take
exciting jungle trips here. However walkers must be fit and have suitable,
large profile shoes. Overnight stay in Bukit Lawang Cottage.
- Day 3.
-
Bukit Lawang - own program.
Overnight stay in Bukit Lawang Cottage.
- Day 4.
-
Bukit Lawang - Brastagi via Medan. Enroute stop at Sikulikap waterfall.
In the afternoon you will arrive at the cool mountain resort of Brastagi.
Here you can view 2 active volcanoes, Sibayak and Sinabung.
Overnight stay in hotel
Brastagi Cottage in Brastagi.
- Day 5.
-
Brastagi - Samosir. After breakfast leave for Prapat at the famous Lake
Toba. On the way stops at the Sipiso Piso waterfall, at the longhouse of
King Purba and at pineapples, coffee and ginger plantations.
In the afternoon you arrive in Prapat at lake Toba. Overnight at hotel
Toledo at Samosir. Your room has beautiful view directly on the lake side.
- Day 6.
-
Samosir tour. After breakfast excursion to several Toba Batak villages at
the island. Visit to the villages Ambarita, Simanindo and Tomok. Overnight
at hotel
Toledo.
- Day 7.
-
Samosir - own programme. Overnight stay at hotel Toledo.
- Day 8.
-
Samosir - Sibolga.
In the early morning you will cross the lake to Prapat from where you leave
for Sibolga. Along the southern shores of lake Toba with its lovely
ricefields and huge Batak kings' graves you travel through the Toba
highlands. During the trip you will pass hot sulphur springs at Sipoholon.
In Tarutung, the centre of the Protestant Batak church, you turn towards
the direction of Sibolga, the old harbour town on the Indian ocean. By an
amazing road with a thousand curves, straight through the Bukit Barisan
ridge, you will arrive late in the afternoon in Sibolga, the town where
time seems to stand still.
You will lodge in a nice hotel Sibolga Marina on the island of Poncan
Gadang, 20 minutes by boat from Sibolga.
- Day 9.
-
Sibolga/Poncan Gadang - own program. You can enjoy the heavenly
surroundings on this Robinson Crusoe island. You can also dive and snorkel
over beautiful coral gardens. Diving equipment can be rented on the island.
Overnight stay in hotel Sibolga Marina on Poncan Gadang.
- Day 10.
-
Sibolga - Bukittinggi.
The route to Bukittingi in the Minangkabau highlands brings you again
right through the Bukit Barisan mountainical ridge of Sumatra. It is an
impressive tour in which you drive through a wall of tropical rain forest.
En route you pass the equator in the place Bonjol. In the afternoon we
arrive in the cool and pleasant town of Bukittingi. Overnight stay in
hotel Pusako in Bukittinggi.
- Day 11.
-
Bukittinggi - city tour and excursions. In the morning there is a tour
to the former Fort De Kock, situated on a strategic point on a high
mountain. You then visit the market and the famous 'Karbouwengat' (Ngarai
Sianok), the impressive canyon beside the city. Around noon we depart for
the Minangkabau Palace in Pagaruyung where you will see various aspects of
the matriarchal society of the Minangkabau. Our next destination is the
Harau nature reserve, famous for its huge rock formations and delightful
butterflies. En route you pass Batusangkar where you will see historic
rock inscriptions in Hindu-Indian Sanscrit language. In
the evening we return to Bukittinggi via lake Singkarak.
Overnight stay in hotel Pusako in Bukittinggi.
- Day 12.
-
Bukittinggi - Maninjau. Today you proceed to Maninjau via the silver
town of Kota Gadang on the other side of the Karbouwengat. For the
sportive hiker the one hour walk through the deep Karbouwengat to
Kota Gadang is a must!
From Kota Gadang you will be picked up by the car for departure to the
mysterious lake Maninjau, descending to the lake via the road with
forty four curves. The lake is clean and still and excellent for swimming.
Overnight stay right at hotel Nuansa Maninjau at the lake Maninjau.
- Day 13.
-
Maninjau - own programme.
- Day 14.
-
Maninjau - Padang. Today you go to Padang via the beautiful Anai
valley with the Anai waterfall. The harbour city of Padang on the Indian
ocean is the economic centre of West Sumatra. On arrival there is a
city tour of Padang. Overnight stay in Hotel Pangeran Beach in Padang.
- Day 15.
- Padang - transfer to airport for the flight to your next destination.
| The price of the 15 day tour for | |
|---|---|
| 2 to 3 persons is | US $ 970,- p.p. |
| 4 to 6 persons | US $ 850,- p.p. |
| 7 to 10 persons | US $ 750,- p.p. |
| Single room supplement | US $ 270,- |
The price is inclusive of:
- overnight accommodation in good medium class hotels
- breakfast daily
- transport in comfortable air-conditioned minibus or bus
- fuel
- driver, his meals and overnight accommodation costs
- entrance and parking fees
- cost of the ferry Parapat - Samosir and vice versa
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