got to banda aceh around 3am. what a crazy trip up here! me and piotrek just came from ketambe which means we spent 2 hours on the first minibus, 8 hours on the second mini bus and 7 hours on the last one... i hadn't anticipated how scary it would be to sit on a minibus in sumatra after having had a car accident on a van pretty much the same size as these buses... it's bloody scary and my heart has jumped out of my chest a few dozen times on the way up here! the first thing i did when i got on the bus was imagine how everything would feel if the minibus flipped over on the road full of landslides in the middle of the night... of course these minibuses don't have seating belts and the road... even though it goes by the enthusiastic name of "trans-sumatran highway"... it looks like something i would hardly call a road. but anyway, we made it! and this seems like a nice place :) as it's ramadan everyone was out eating late and we joined in while waiting for the 9am boat to go to pulau weh for some great beach days snorkeling :D can't wait!!
meanwhile in ketambe we went to see the orangutans and they were so cute!!!!!! also lots of thomas leaf's monkeys and many macaques :) and beautiful birds and butterflies with amazing colors :):):) after the long day in the jungle my knee hurt like hell!! i also hit it on a branch... which didn't help... but anyway, for me the best of ketambe was the family that owned the guest house, they were sweet and cute and gentle and it was so hard to leave... the mom was a great cook and an amazing healing woman who massaged my knee 3 days in a row making it sooooo much better :) they put a huge smile on my face!! and as if it wasn't all already enough... in the morning we had pancakes with banana and coconut and amazing coffee roasted with cocoa grains... true happiness :D
and then those great things, like how it's always the people you meet and end up traveling with and sharing your days and your meals and your emotions and your trip... that end up being your journey :)
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