1 June Singapore-Medan-Banda Aceh-Pulau Weh
We had to wake up at 5 am…the alarm o’clock did not ring…the taxi phoned us at 5:30, panic!!! Ready in 5 minutes, hurry up…we reached the airport at 6 am, with enough time to arrive to the gate because we did the checking the day before. From Medan we had another plane to Banda Aceh…we did not lost any of them!! Today gods are with us!!
Once in Aceh we had to take a taxi to the ferry terminal, we had to wait until 2 pm for the fast ferry departing to the island. Anyway, the waiting time was quite nice, some people just came to us to talk about Pulau Weh, the 2004 tsunami…
Something we noticed on the trip to the ferry terminal was that a lot of school girls were dressed in the most conservative Muslim stile, even the youngest ones.
We arrived around 6pm at Freddies’s hostel in Sumurtiga, our lodge in Pulau Weh, it was in a great location, just facing a beautiful beach. The bungalows were pretty rustic but comfortable, we like this style, we don’t’ need anything else. We had our first snorkeling in the beach nearby and it was ok, plenty of fish but poor in corals, the tsunami destroyed mostly of them and they have not yet been recovered. After snorkeling, Jaime and the kids built a jacuzzi in the beach and covered themselves with sand waiting for the waves to fill up the jacuzzi.
At night we had a good dinner to finish an exhausting day.
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