Medan Part II

The journey heading to Berastagi was about 3 hours.  The scenery was really nice and refreshing.  We stop by at a restaurant for our lunch which serve very famous ginger tea with pisang goreng. We was told that Berastagi is famous of coffee plant.  Berastagi is famous of its volcano.  We stop by Pasar Buah before we checked in at Green Garden Hotel about 2-3 km from Pasar Buah.  In the evening, our tour guide brought us to hot spring but the road heading to there is really terrible and according to him not many tour guide will bring tourist there so we consider ourselves lucky.

After we had our breakfast in the hotel, we went to a Buddhist Temple (I can't remember the name) and it is nearby to the strawberry farm.  They also have self pluck strawberry.  Rp 70,000 for 100gm. Cheap right and it is so much sweeter than Cameron strawberry.  

Self pluck strawberry farm

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We say farewell to Berastagi after plucking the strawberry.  We went back to Medan town and the journey is only about 2 hours.  

The whole journey from Medan to Parapat and to Berastagi open up our eyes about the locals culture.  Some of them are really very poor.  

Our 4 days trip to Medan is really fruitful and our driver cum tour guide is a very nice guy and will highly recommend him to anyone who is going to Medan in future.  The middle man, Pak Saragi is also a nice guy welcome us in the airport and send us off to airport at 4.00am as our flight is at 6.05am.

Actually this trip is our second honeymoon to celebrate our 12th year anniversary which fall on 9 May.  I left  our 2 daughters with my mum.