Banda Aceh, Indonesia I “woke up” to a windy morning by the beach. Sleeping propped up in between two chairs wasn’t fun. Erin and I were the first to venture out to take pictures before rain forced us to take shelter back in the bungalow […]
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Day 305: A Brief Encounter and Unexpected Farewell
Pulau Weh – Banda Aceh, Indonesia A few days ago, out of the blue, Charli hit me up and said she’s heading to Sumatra. It so happened that she planned to dive at Pulau Weh as well. It would have been superb had we been […]
Day 301: City of Strangers, Alien and Bleak
Medan – Banda Aceh – Pulau Weh, Indonesia I finally left Medan for Pulau Weh to do some diving. The two weeks in Medan was the longest I’d ever stayed put in one place since the beginning of the year. I was itching to be […]
Day 307: Assalamu Alaikum
Banda Aceh, Indonesia Aceh suffered the most lost during the tsunami incident in 2004. Losing more than 120,000 souls to the disaster, I found both the town and the people of Banda Aceh recovered from the loss surprisingly well. Banda Aceh is by far the […]