Hand made scarf, connecting scarf, ulos mangiring

From Ratha nephew Netty I received a wonderful present. Hand made, over one 100 years old, special scarf - ulos mangiring, connection scarf. This type of the scarf is usually offered in order to connect to family. Now I am connected to Batak family for ever.

Hike to triple island.

View from the top of Samosir island.

Have you ever heard about triple island? Triple island is an island on the lake, and this lake is situated on the island which is located on the Lake on the Island.

Sounds in Indonesia - quiz.

Every day for one hour Ratna is teaching in 3-5 years old children in a local school. I joined her two times. I wanted to take few photos for her blog as well I wanted to contribute a bit to the lessons.

Recipe for the most Delicious fish

1. Wake up 6 o'clock in the morning at the Lake Toba bank.
2. Enjoy the beautiful sun rise for few minutes.
3. Jump in the canoe.
4. Start pulling fishing net trying not to scramble it and clean it from the water plants.

The story about the fisherwomen.

Every morning after sunrise, fisherwomen prepares her canoe.
She pushes it out the waters of Lake Toba and paddle in the direction of rising sun... Or maybe rather in the direction of her fishing nets. Is there something in the net today? For sure plenty of water, but yea there is also a fish. Sunny fish in the net. The women is happy. The name of this women is Ratna.

My first ever Lobster

What is the most exclusive food? I do not know. But one of the most exclusive that I know is lobster. I have never tried one, but I was sure that I would taste one day. I thought that one day when I will have a job I would go to exclusive restaurant to check it out. Or if I ever go to exclusive, medical related conference, maybe I would be able to enjoy this taste.

Plant a tree

Earth's lungs are located around the equator, mostly in the underdeveloped countries. Sometimes the main income for those people are the natural goods that they can find around them. One of the goods is wood, timber which they use as a building material for they houses, canoes, or are selling. From the global perspective it is rally bad that the jungle is cut down, but for some local people it is the only way to feed their children, afford their education or pay for a visit in hospital. Are the developed countries supports enough the uncut jungles in underdeveloped countries?

Students from Medan

I arrived to Silimalumbu on Saturday morning and found out that the EcoFarm is FULL. Thirty Indonesian university students came to this farm to plant the trees and collect plastic waste for two days. The first day we planted 350 trees in a jungle and the second we collected plastic waste from the Lake Toba. I was also main photographer of this event.

EcoFarm on Lake Toba island.

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EcoFarm, view from the lake.

In Sabang (Pulau Weh) I met Beat, Swiss biker. We snorkeled few times together and we shared the same bungalow. He told me about his wonderful experience of staying for one week on the EcoFarm, in Silimalumbu on Samosir Island. I decided to go there for few days, and finally I stayed there longer than I anticipated be...