Horas Medan - Day 3

From here Day 2

It's third day, we going back to Medan.

We staying at Istana Maimun area, so many choices of hotel and guesthouse here and plus it's nearby the airport. We pick guesthouse for Rp100,000 per night. Early in the morning we searching for Post Office to post a postcard, it's quit far from our hotel so we decided to take Beca for Rp10,000, the price you can bargain from the driver but if you paying more than Rp15,000-the price is consider expensive. So try to bargain, you will get the fare is as low as Rp5,000.

From inside the Beca

Post Office - Stamp will cost Rp8,000 to Malaysia

From post office we just walking-touring around the city, what catch my eyes is there always be a big board bloom with flowers that purposely for greeting on special occasion like wedding, convocation etcs.  

Colorful ~ So colorful

We spotted a temple resemble like Kinkaku-ji Castle-Japan but we cannot go inside because the building currently in renovation. Too bad!

From there we taking Beca to Jalan Mojopahit to buy infamous layer cake and bika ambon. The famous brand is Zulaikha, price is differ by size and flavor. It's so delicious and come with convenient box.

List price:

Bika Ambon Original - Rp38,000

Bika Ambon Flavor - Rp40,000

Bika Ambon Up-flavor(blueberry, cheese) - Rp45,000 to 48,000

Layer cake (small) Original - Rp33,000

Layer cake(small) Flavor- Rp38,000

Brownies - Rp30,000

We had lunch and going straight to Istana Maimun. Entrance fee is Rp8,000. There is absolutely nothing much you can do here, no board information, no introduction and even you pay for entrance fees the castle is totally not improper maintenance and dirty. Display items also is limited, only paintings and ancient sofas. 

That's the ending of my Medan tour, at night we have dinner at Kg. Baru and meet new friends. The next day we going out early as 5.00am because my friend's flight at 6.30am while mine at 8.00am. But ended up my flight delay-she already heavenly in KL while I have stayed until 5.30pm and arrived KL at 9.00pm. How unlucky I am?  

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Communication in Indonesia it should be no problem if you can speak Malay because it's not much differ between Indo language and Malaysia language but still there is different in certain terms. This is what i thought useful to remember:

Dictionary:

Horas - Welcome

Dingin - Cold

Mencet - Jammed

Mobil - Car

Mogok - Actually a noun e.g: car broken down - mobil mogok   

Speda - Motorbike

Manis Dingin - Iced Tea

Senduk - Fork & Spoon

Pulsa - Top-up credit
Karto Post - Postcard
Titipan - Souvenior

So many other words but this is the only i can remember.