Trip Moments Recommendations
MEDAN 🇮🇩 : IF YOU DON’T GO, YOU WON’T KNOW
1.That it takes only less than one hour to fly to Medan 🇮🇩 from Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾
2. Food stalls selling local cuisine hang banners with codes B1 & B2
B1 is dog meat 🐕
B2 is pork 🐖
3. Medan is famous with tilapia fish (called ikan nila by the locals)
4. Majority of the locals are Batak tribe. There are 5 types of Batak: Batak Karo / Batak Pakpak / Batak Simalungun / Batak Samosir / Batak Mendailing
5. Binjai (one of the provinces in Medan) is where the horrifying massacre by Dukun AS took place. The dukun (Indonesian shaman) was a serial killer who has killed at least 40 women by burying them alive in the woods behind his house with the assistance of his wives. Google it!
6. The hometown of Judika, now a famous Indonesian singer who was just a busker from Berastagi (one of the coldest province in Medan)
7. Samosir Island is the biggest recursive island in the world (as big as Singapore)
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