We awake today ready to take the 2 day journey that was set
to take us to the mythical island of samosir, set deep within the volcanic crater
lake of Toba... Unfortunately, Sarah soon discovered her sun stroke, nearly
passing out in the hotel lobby, so we booked a further night in order to
recover. Hit it too hard with the 6hr slum treck yesterday!
Late that evening Sarah was feeling better so we took a taxi
to the airport for our 5am flight. Horrifyingly, our taxi driver must have had
a long day, as he fell asleep at the wheel about 10 times during the journey it
turned competitive as we tried to wake him before the honking commuters around
us. This was borderline funny in the slow moving traffic jams, but as we hit
the faster roads it wasn't so funny when he veered of the road, asleep, onto
the hard shoulder.
We met our first fluent English speaking Indonesian man
today, he was waiting for his family at the airport, and we took the
opportunity to practice our very limited knowledge of the Indonesian language. It’s
now about midnight that I'm writing this, the airport is shut so we are sitting
outside, our plane leave at 5.55am... it’s going to be a long night.
Side note: We have seen 6 white people in total so far.
Anticipating the journey to come
4am Jakarta Airport
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