Woke up at 6am to have hotel breakfast before our driver picked us up. There was a large spread but I couldn't eat much due to the early morning. Porridge was god sent though, look at all the ingredients to choose from!
Crazy Sam overloaded on spring onions?! Ewww.
The drive to the port that would take us to Samosir Island was 5 hour long. I had to try and sleep for most of it due to my motion sickness, but in between dusty roads, there were some interesting sights.
Our lunch, which was included in our package with the driver and some accommodations. They usually offer a number of dishes and you can take or leave some. I'm not sure how sanitary it is because I don't think they throw the untouched/half-touched food away, but I tried not to think about it hahaha.
By the end of the second day, we realised that the fish was usually the champion dish. A lot of the chicken dishes were dry and small, haha.
We finally got to the port around 3pm, but were told that the next boat would only arrive around 5-6pm. So we just wandered around the village, playing with puppies.
These cheeky kids were excited to show us their puppos.
The puppies weren't that pleased to be manhandled but they appeared to accept their fate, haha.
Sam getting some loving.
We probably walked the entire length of the village in less than an hour.
Persuaded him to take some photos because I was bored.
<3
God knows how many hours later, we finally arrived at Samosir Island, which is by Lake Toba. We drove another half an hour or so to get to our "resort".
The exterior was quite pretty, but the inside of the room was pretty bare bones. It was not the cleanest and the bed was way too soft, but luckily the view (kinda) made up for it.
It was kind of quaint to see people fishing in the middle of the giant lake.
Checking out the menu at our resort's "restaurant". When in a remote place like that, I realised that ordering local food definitely trumps generic western food haha.
Met more friendly doggos on the way out for dinner.
We walked a good 20 minutes, past many paddy fields.
To my restaurant! It was a surprise from Sam, hahaha.
The fish was AMAZING. We also had a pizza which was very subpar haha.
Friendly kitty wanted pats and fish scraps.
Look at those puppy eyes!!
Got to sleep in a little, before exploring the island the next morning.
Lol found this in their book section. I wonder who left it here.
The fresh juice was amazing!
I ordered "bacon with scrambled eggs and toast". That piece of meat was so tough and unflavourful lololol.
Our driver stopped us at some beautiful photo taking points.
We were brought to some kind of heritage centre to check out ancient living quarters.
It was pretty cool.
Mini market catering to tourists.
The air and sky was beautiful.
More lunch that was included in our package. By this time I was getting slightly sick of fish, so thankfully there was chicken stew. Though the chicken was kind of tough, probably because it was mostly kampong chickens!
Prettiest part of the resort.
We lounged a lot.
Finally dragged ourselves up to prepare for dinner.
By the time we got out to start walking to the next restaurant, it was pretty dark.
On the way to the restaurant, we heard pitiful meowing so we went to investigate. This little kitty was stuck in a fence and we could not find her mum anywhere so we took her with us.
Too cute!!
That night we went to Sam's restaurant, hehe.
We brought her back with us for the night to figure out what to do with her.
She meowed a lot at first, but then eventually went to sleep!
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