This is our last Indonesia Travel Vlog from Sumatra! After this we will head to Bandung and start our travels across Java Island! 😍 Today we decided to rent a motorbike instead of taking public transportation as we wanted to drive an hour south of Berastagi to Lake Toba while making some stops on the way. I think this was the most expensive motorbike we rented in our 2 years in SouthEast Asia, but the lady in charge of our homestay said it's a normal price in Berastagi as it's the only place to rent motorbikes from! (we paid 150,000 Rp ($10 USD) for the one day).
We started by driving from Berastagi to Lingga Cultural Village as it isn't far from Berastagi. It was a little confusing to find the actual cultural village, however we finally ran into a little tourist building with a lovely man who gave us a tour! He told us they only have 2 of the big traditional houses, but we were able to go into one of them and he explained everything and showed us around. He also told us a story of how they would find girlfriends by playing flutes outside of their houses. As the tour was free, we decided to buy one of the flutes as a donation (Carles needs some practice 😜). We also wanted to stop by the Museum Karo Lingga, however it was closed!
We continued to drive from Lingga toward Lake Toba....however it wasn't long before we got a flat tire!!! Our first flat tire ever when renting a motorbike! We couldn't find anywhere on google maps to take the bike, however a man told us to keep going down the road (and we got lots of encouragement from people riving by 🤣) telling us to keep going and that a shop was only 5 minutes away. Luckily we reached the motorbike shop. The guys were able to fix our tire SO quickly - we were amazed!!! And the best part was they didn't even try to charge us extra. It was so affordable to fix the tire quickly and continue on our way! Eventually we made it to Sipiso Piso Waterfall - one of the highest waterfalls in Indonesia! It's a really impressive waterfall and so close to Lake Toba! You can actually see Lake Toba while you climb down to the waterfall! The parking lot for Sipiso Piso Waterfall is at the top of the waterfall....you then have to climb down sooo many stairs to reach the bottom! (We were told it's 1,200 stairs, although it didn't feel like that many).
We actually didn't go the entire way to the bottom as the spray at the bottom of the waterfall is so strong!!! All of the people who went down to the very bottom were soaking wet!
Once we reached the top again, it started to pour rain! Luckily we were able to duck into a restaurant to avoid the rain and have some of the best Indonesian food yet! We tried ifu mie goreng for the first time and of course our favorite, nasi goreng. It was such a good meal and the rain stopped by the end! To make it even better, a man took our motorbike helmets inside when it was pouring so they weren't super wet when we got back ( Indonesians are seriously SO NICE!!!). We drove back to Berastagi without anymore issues with our motorbike, however we weren't able to drive the whole way to Lake Toba like we wanted to. It was still another great day in North Sumatra!
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00:01 Intro
00:33 Renting a Motorbike in Berastagi
00:45 Famous Giant Cabbage
01:26 Lingga Cultural Village
01:52 Inside Traditional House
03:03 Traditional Flute Song
03:46 Carles Playing the Flute
04:19 Heading to Museum Karo Lingga
05:46 Flat Tire in Sumatra
06:50 Tire is Fixed!
07:26 Driving to Lake Toba
07:42 Sipiso Piso Entrance Ticket
08:24 Climbing Down to Sipiso Piso
09:15 Views of Lake Toba
10:32 Slippery Path to Sipiso Piso
10:58 Almost at the Bottom
11:32 Sipiso Piso Drone Shots
12:04 Climbing Back Up Sipiso Piso
12:54 Bees!
13:51 Local Indonesian Restaurant
14:25 Amazing Ifu Mie Goreng & Nasi Goreng
16:29 Driving Back to Berastagi

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