Bicycle Adventure

Hard to believe we’ve been here a week! We’ll be driving to Medan on Tuesday so that means Monday is our last full day in paradise. On Sunday, for much of the day we did a lot of nothing, just sat on our front porch basking in the scenery, reading, writing in our journals, and organizing the wonderful photos that we wish we could show more of on this blog site. We will eventually. Mid afternoon, we rented bicycles and the two of us pedaled 5 kilometers to the next village called Tomok. We saw some historical stone tombs of the kings of one Batak family. A man there explained everything to us and it turned out that he was a direct descendant. We also did a little shopping in the bazaar shops that surrounded this tourist site. They really are eager for tourists here. The tsunami that devasted North Sumatra Christmas of 2004 also nearly devastated the tourist business around Toba. After we pedaled the 5 km back to Tuk-Tuk, we changed into our swimsuits and took a refreshing dip in the lake. Aaahhhh!! This is living! Sunday evening we enjoyed a lovely dinner with Aron and Hapne at our resort.