Bukit Lawang- Indonesia

I had a 9 day vacation from work, so I decided to make the most of it and explore a new country that I hadn’t been to. I didn’t want to do Bali (the typical destination) so I chose Sumatra, the biggest Indonesian island. (Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands, so I definetly still have alot more of the country to explore.)

I got th public bus that was heading to Bukit Lawang and settled in for a long, cramped, bumpy ride. Indonesia reminds me alot of Africa. It is a much poorer country than Thailand (what I’ve become used to in the last 7 months). It’s sort of hard to explain the similarities, but the shops, roads, and houses have an African vibe to them. I often felt like I had left Asia behind.