N Sumatra map

Routes in North Sumatra taken for Back to the Villages.  Click on the image to see a larger one.

Schedule in North Sumatra, June 2010
 5 - arrive in Medan from Jakarta
 6 - Gunung Leuser (Orang Utan rehabilitation centre)
 7 - Medan to Berastagi
  8 - Kaban Jahe
  9 - Tongging, Paropo, Silalahi
10 - Berastagi to Tuktuk via Simalungun and Parapat
11 - Lumban Suhisuhi
12 - Simanindo, Ambarita, Tomok
13 - Silindung Valley
14 - Silindung Valley
15 - Tuktuk to Medan
16-18 - Medan
19 - Medan to Parapat and Tuktuk
20 - Tuktuk to Simanindo, Lumban Suhisuhi, Pusuk Buhit, Harian Boho and Sihotang. Overnight at the foot of Pusuk Buhit on the shore of Lake Toba
21 - Back to Samosir, and from Pangururan to Simbolon to Nainggolan, back to Tuktuk, Parapat and all the way south to Muara
22 - Muara
23 - Silindung - to Parapat at the end of the day
24 - from Parapat to Balige
25 - Balige to Kaban Jahe and Berastagi
26 - Berastagi to Medan - then an afternoon flight to Aceh
27 - Banda, Aceh
28 - Banda to Medan
29 - Medan - to Amsterdam over KL

Links to my Back to the Villages blogs and to the serialisation on Facebook by photographer MJA Nashir:
Menyusuri Ulos Batak, berkelana dengan Sandra