after exploring the big cities of Jakarta and Medan then trekking through the humid
jungle in search of orangutans we decided to head to berastagi this town in North Sumatra
is famous for having not one but two active volcanoes cooler temperatures and amazing
Hot Springs today we drove an hour south of berastagi while our day did not go as planned
we still saw the most amazing waterfall and had some great food we got a motorbike from
the only motorbike place in berastagi 150,000 for a day which our homestay person said
is normal because it's the only place to rent from here is the famous giant cabbage of Berastagi
isn't it so cabbagey
so yesterday was public transit day today we got a moto because we're trying to go
like an hour and a half away to a couple different places and it would
have been like 500 buses so today is a real motorbike Adventure we'll see where we make it
we made it to Lingga we have a tour guide
he's telling us this is the traditional house and in one of these big houses he
said eight families live here eight family eight families around uh you
know around 35 people 35 people sometimes more than 35
he said we can go inside
there are no nails it's only wood the whole house he said was built in 1862. but they have
to change the roof every 10 years because it's so Smoky from four different kitchens
and everything is so black from the smoke. inside this house you can see we have four kitchens
one two three four it's for 8 families
and then for the parents sleep behind there that is the room for the parents sleep
be careful of your head
this is the other house? yeah it's the other house
is it steep? a little
it's so high yeah all the chicken's here
this is the second house yeah so only these two houses right yeah
this is also eight families this house is uh
formerly more bigger than that house this house has 10 families
he's playing a local song
so this is how you play when you want a girl yeah like this song
outside here? yeah we call here
you can see because sometimes if the girl doesn't like the man sometimes the girls take water
and they throw water at you? they throw the water outside. that's why when we play the flute our eyes are like this
how do you put your fingers? three fingers and the other three
in order to find the tone this is the tone
I would not have a girlfriend here. yeah bye
we just finished our tour and we bought a flute but that guy was so nice
um now there's a museum here as well in the same town that we are gonna go check out the museum
but there's a funeral going on right now so I think everyone right now is at the funeral here's the funeral
so everyone's in Black like traditional clothes
we found the museum but it's closed today no Museum on Sundays
unfortunately the museum was closed but it was cool that that guy was there to like give us a tour and show us around
and show his house yeah like he lives in the house apparently there's only two of the houses left
but they're super old like 150 years old and he was saying how hard it is to make
them now like it's easier just to make normal houses you can go there and he'll tell you all
about their culture and stuff it was really interesting yeah so instead of just giving a
donation for the tour they have some like hand crafts that they made there that are like
pretty overpriced but it's because it's for the donation so yeah but it's a nice
memory yeah and the flute's really cool too yeah so I'm content I'm happy we saw it
I've never seen houses like that before ever okay now we go to the waterfall yeah on to the next stop an hour drive
goodbye Lingga...we got a flat tire on the highway
a gas station maybe? this sucks we don't know what we're doing this man came over to help us but
yeah I don't know we're still so far from where we wanted to go it doesn't look like
we'll be able to go there we're Wheeling it over to the gas station. this is crazy
this guy's yelling at us five minutes up the road Carles is driving along I'm walking
at least people are yelling out of their car windows at us keep going five minutes five minutes
so we're hoping we can get there and they can fix it because this is crazy this says motorcycle
hopefully they can fix this
we're getting the whole tire taken out eh. at least we made it here that was not fun
thank you! bye! less than yeah literally we didn't even sit down Carles and I stood there the whole
time they did it so fast the second we walked in and it only cost forty thousand and it's working
so well yeah which is like oh my God I can't even that shop wasn't even on Google Maps like we were
just walking up the road and those guys were amazing they were so nice and now our bike is fixed
that was not a fun way to start the day so now on to the waterfall hopefully
you have to pay here for the waterfall seven thousand per person yes
there are so many people here we paid
we didn't have 14 so I gave him 15 and instead of giving me one he gave me back the five I guess he didn't have change either that's amazing
but yeah this is chaotic here we just paid the entrance up there and now you
have to pay 5,000 to park here but my bag's in the bike so we have to keep jumping off for money
anyway we're at the parking area now I think
we made it to the stairs some guy let us park outside his aunt's
store and was telling us all about here and he said it's 1,200 steps down. that's a lot of stairs
it's so pretty here isn't it? it's so pretty. I guess down here
oh these views are these views are insane insane
I think it's one of the highest waterfalls in Indonesia you can already see it yeah wow
that's why that guy was telling us maybe we only go halfway because yeah you're
right here at the top we haven't even done 20 stairs and you can see the top that's amazing
the Lake's right here yeah Lake Toba is right there it's amazing eh yeah it's the largest
lake inside a volcano in the world in the whole world look at that
there's all these photo spots on the way they're so cute and I think we still have over a thousand stars to go
yeah okay yeah I didn't realize that the waterfall was this close to Lake Toba
another photo spot and there's like so many drinks and everything on the way
we're passing so many people walking up and everyone's like soaking wet and I really hope
that everyone just tried to swim and that's not like the spray from the volcano the spray from the
waterfall because if the spray is that crazy I really don't want to be soaking wet to drive an
hour back on the Moto huh I think it's the spray you think Carles thinks it's the spray yeah I
think it's the spray I don't want to get sprayed until I'm soaking wet we can just go until it sprays
yeah we still we haven't gotten wet yet yeah you can see the spray on it is crazy crazy
like those guys they were so wet we're getting closer now and it's super slippery
and everything's like wet and the rail yeah the rail is quite broken but
maybe we'll get wet when we go around this corner I don't know are you getting wet? no not yet
the ground is very wet
we made it yeah we just came around that corner but I think this is where we're stopping because
everyone over there is so wet the views are crazy. it is it's amazing look you can see the whole waterfall now
I don't know how tall it is but it's yeah all those guys there all have their shirts off and stuff
they look so wet yeah I'm fine just staying here the view is so nice though
we saw it and we didn't get really really wet just a little bit um so now we're going to start
the climb back up the 1200. I guess we didn't go the whole way to the end Maybe maybe 1100 stairs
you excited for this it didn't seem like one thousand two hundred it really didn't
that's why you should have counted yeah actually I'm sure it might seem like it on the way up
let's go let's go
oh my God we just went in this little Hut and These Guys these boys came and were like pointing
and saying no no and we were like oh what does it say do not enter there is a giant bee's nest
oh my God look at this I don't even want to get close that is so scary
they would have got us yeah probably because we wanted to fly the drone there
can we go up I'm scared now yeah lets go up a little
oh my god even here you can see so many of them flying in and out wow
thank God for that kid apparently you have to use two hands
so steep
I'm only using one hand
stairs stairs stairs stairs stairs
we're back up exactly an hour so food
we stopped here for some food at the top of the path
and we're still an hour from our hotel and it is pouring rain
pouring. yeah it's raining so much
and our helmets are going to get wet. yeah our helmets are on the bike.
but we got these ones: noodles for me and nasi goreng
we have it! yeah I don't know what Carles got. No name noodles it's mie goreng maybe
they're really good though. better than Nasi Goreng? like I want them. no mine
let me have one more. I didn't think they'd be so good I only had one. we have to get the name. yeah
I think it's mie goreng like just noodles
okay I'm gonna try yours then. okay. I didn't try mine yet
is that amazing? it's really good. yeah you have to compare it to
this one though because these are so good I could eat all these noodles
it's one of the best that we've tried. really? nice. how are they?
amazing what do you like more? this one. yeah right those noodles are so good I like the noodles better too
but this nasi goreng is also really good. it is good but those noodles are so good I don't know
so good. we killed it and
it stopped raining right in time for us to leave yeah. time to go back an hour drive
that was hilarious oh my we know the name
we got ifu mie goreng
were trying to ask with the name of the noodles were because they were so good and she didn't know what we were saying and then it was all confusing and we got it finally
nasi goreng, ifu mie goreng, Sprite and water was 57 000. but yeah so good thank you thank you our helmets are
dry that's amazing you told me you told me after from Sumatra you live to Bandung yeah
that was amazing the guy who let us keep our bikes outside his shop he took our helmets in when
it started raining so yeah our helmets are dry! so so nice otherwise we would be soaking wet now
but yeah it was raining it's kind of chilly I think we're just gonna head back to Berastagi now
but the views here? it's so nice here. You have to come to the waterfall!