Padang Travel Blogs

Then, we went back to the hotel to change our cloth and went to the airport. This would be our last land trip in West Sumatra. So sad... but also happy! We would be home sweet home again. After praying and my daughters had late lunch (because they didn’t eat well in Harisko’s house), we checked…

August 3-7, 2006Culture, nature, cuisine, architecture, whatever you want just here in Padang...i'll add the detail later.  

During my visit in Padang, I can say that there are lots of buildings have the shape like "rumah gadang" (Minangkabau: 'big house'). All kinds of buildings, offices, hotels, restaurants, and of course the airport look like "rumah gadang".  It tells that the people are very proud of their…

The trip: 1. Friday night, a van picked me and 4 other collagues from Pekanbaru (one of them is Rintjez, TB member). This van brought us in 7-8 hours road trip to Padang, West Sumatera. In the middle of the trip, it was stopped in a restaurant (Terang Bulan Restaurant in Lubuk Bangko) and we had a…

Not a bed of roses Mike and I travelled to Padang together and stayed at the same hotel.  While looking for lunch we met Ricky (a Chinese Indonesian who works for the maker of the famous Kopiko sweet found around the world).  He was absolutely godsent as there was apparently nowhere to…

Sharing some view of Indonesia

Sikuai Island... a nice island..I invite U to go to there..come on! come to Indonesia..

on a Idul Fitri holiday, we are get chance to visit Padang, West Sumatra. Padang is about 900 km from Medan, we heading to Padang overland......

Leaving Jakarta on Saturday and returning on Monday

My travel around Sumatra, the biggest island of Indonesia.

Nice place

Several idioms using the word flower and related to something beautiful, playful, nice,.i.e: flower generation, flower child, flowery words, etc. As one quote: "Flowers are happy things." - Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse. For me, flower is one among the greatest God's gifts, their shape and color, their fragrance and stems, their beauty seems to ignore their surrounding. Flowers and green.. that actually what our eyes need other than vitamin A:p

Indonesia-Mentawai Island Chain- Some heavy free diving...

When the sun sets in the west...

I needed a short holiday and I opted for the cheapest flight I could get at that moment. It was Padang which is located in the province of Sumatra Indonesia. I personally like rural areas of South East Asia. There is more nature, creativity, personalities, emotions, culture and tradition relative t…