Hayden's Adventures in South East Asia!

First off there were the spiders that were all over, they were massive and always decided to build their webs on the only path along the coast. So I decided to take a vacation from travelling and settle down somewhere for a bit. And I dont think I could have picked a nicer place! Pulau Weh is and island on the very north west tip of Indonesia I found a nice bungalow for 60000 ID (about $6) a night and just hung out for 2 weeks. There were lots of monkeys on the island but unlike some other places in asia they didnt try to steal things so they werent a problem. One day I rented a motorbike and drove around the island for a bit. I though I was heading to a waterfall in this picture but I never made it :/ I did make it to Kilometre 0 however, which is the very most western point you can get to. This is the view from the restaurant at my bungalows where you can see the island Pulau Rubiah just across the island . Just on the other side of

I decided to make a detour to the south with the Canadians I met when I was climbing the volcano. First stop was lake Toba, The largest volcanic lake in the world! So one morning were climbing a volcano and the same afternoon we are spending the night on an island in a volcanic lake. It was super sunny and beautiful there, kinda of reminded me of the Okanagan . All the houses were in this style which is traditional to Sumatra. These were our rooms at "Hotel Carolina" One day we rented motorbikes and explored the island and areas around it. Lots of rice fields and fish ponds in the lakes and surroundings. After riding around we decided to go to the hot springs which we found out when we got there were pretty developed. The local people had attached all sorts of pipes and drains to the natural part of the hot springs and had it pumped into bathing pools all over the area. We had to pay 10000 IDR to get in for an hour. About $1.

First stop in Indonesia! After I got off the plane from Singapore I hopped on the back of a motorbike who took me to the local buses that go all over Sumatra. I climbed into a pimped out minivan with all sorts of animal print and frills and we were off to Berastagi! It was a ridiculously crazy ride back and forth, up and down the sides of mountains. And just to my luck there was a huge thunderstorm and cars in Indonesia dont seem to be waterproof. After I found somewhere to stay i wandered around town and found myself on the top of a hill that overlooked all of Berastagi. The next day I met up with some people from Montreal and we set off to climb one of the two volcanoes in Berastagi. The path to the two was pretty easy as it was paved mostly the whole way, the only trouble we really came across was this one part that was completely covered by a land slide  We were told that there was a big crater at the top so once we got to a big plateau we were quite con