Galen & Rebecca Kennel’s Weblog

It is Sunday today. Yesterday the “local” tourists from Medan started moving in. A group of 20 young people rented the 4 rooms below us and we watched them carry in their supplies. Cooking gear – a portable stove, a big pot, a wok. A DVD player and large speakers. Two big jugs of water. Firewood. Beach mats and tarps. A tube for floating in the river. A guitar. I don’t think they slept at all. When we got up at 6:00 AM they were still out by the river. The rooms were just for storing their stuff.

Now the families are arriving. They are met at the taxi park by local people wanting to rent out their shelter and mats. The families spend the day swimming in the river, doing their laundry, bathing, cooking food and washing the dishes in the river. In the evening they pack everything up and make the 4 hour bus ride back to Medan.

I plan to work on my blog, but the electricity at the hotel isn’t strong enough to run the transformer for my laptop. We go down to Papa Denmark’s to see if I can charge my laptop using his solar electrical supply.

In the evening we walk down to Nora’s Guesthouse along the opposite side of the river to join Papa for dinner. It begins to rain before we go down there, and while we are there it pours. It has rained every evening since we came to Bukit Lawang.

A few photos.