Medan

The ride to Medan was pretty straight forward. I was with an experienced American traveler who has been all over the world. He still didn't want to eat the fruits he just bought, which were full of ants. He wanted to give it back to the lady he bought it from, but she insisted that these ants are extra proteins. I actually never wanted to go to Medan but I couldn't be asked for another 5 hours to Bukit Lawang, which is famous for orang utans (which means "men of the forest"). So I stayed in central Medan just next to the main mosque. At 430AM, 12AM, 3PM, 6PM and 7PM the muezzin is yelling all over town a making a conversations in close proximity virtually impossible and of course sleeping. One other attraction is the Istana Maimoon which is a palace which was build by the sultan of Dehli in 1888. The family still lives there but is stripped of all there power.
I never fell in love with Medan so I was a bit annoyed that there was no boat until later this week to get to Pulau Penang in Malaysia.