Lake Toba

After an exhausting night in the bus I arrived in Parabat at 4 AM. Stumbling through the dark I finally found the port next to the awakening market to make the trip to Tuk Tuk. A resort type hotel was my base and for the next few days - I wouldn't move a lot. There were only few guests and they were outnumbered by the young staff. Beers, billiard, a bit of swimming and TV made up a big chunk of my time. The village was a major tourist draw before Indonesia became famous for transport insecurity, Muslim extremism and natural disasters. So the christian Tuk Tuk tries to hang on and wait for better days to come. Sadly they are changing the traditional roofs to corrugated iron. But I had a nice stay, while doing few or nothing - of course I still had to give a lot of interviews to really shy people who came out of close by villages.