Padang

Padang, an old colonial city with a fantastic local cuisine. This city served as a starting point for my dream surf trip to the Mentawai Islands. HOW DO I GET AND WHERE DO I SLEEP? The most common way to get here is to fly from Bali with a stopover in Jakarta to...

Selamat datang di Sumatra

Welcome to Sumatra. Or should I call it the Jungle Book set? And no, that isn’t a small set. As one of the five largest islands in the world, you imagine yourself in a huge tropical rainforest, where it is nowhere flat. Apart from the orangutan spotters, tourism...