Arriving to Medan - Our First Night in Sumatra

Good morning guys, it is 10am and we are in Bali. We're in the airport and we're just about to fly out. We are leaving Indonesia but very briefly. We're about to fly to Singapore but we are then flying on to Medan, Sumatra. So we have a little bit of a travel day today but we're going to end up back in Indonesia and the first time to Sumatra. So are you excited for Sumatra? Yeah, I'm really excited for Sumatra. I can't wait to see. You've been in Bali but you haven't really been outside to the rest of Indonesia yet, right? Yeah, not really, right? No. Lombok, Lombok, Rinjani. Lombok and Gili and Rinjani. Yeah, that's about it. Some of you guys know I've been to Java and I've been to Flores and Lombok but I haven't been to Sumatra yet and I'm excited to see more of Indonesia and yeah, you are too. This is going to be good. Next stop, Singapore. Good morning, thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye. We are back in Changi Airport in Singapore. I actually always like coming here because it's just because it's such a nice airport. I've been here like loads of times but even though we've got I think four hours here before we fly on to Medan, it's fine because it's such a nice airport and there's loads to do. Olivia's never seen the sunflower garden so we're going there quickly now. So cool, finally. I've been like four times in here This is nice. Nice and hot. Yeah, so this is the sunflower garden on top of the airport. Look, there's a plane. Yeah, this is basically it. I'm going to go get some food. What would you say? Overwhelmed? Underwhelmed? Let's see what else this airport has. Let's get food. Check this out, guys. It's like we're back in Japan. We just stopped off for some food on the way. Oh my god. I love it. And this is actually all included on the priority bus. So we're getting this for free right now. You can, if you have the pass, you can just come here and you get like a bento set to have. This is amazing. I don't know, maybe some of you remember that. Filling? Thank you, this is so good. This is just the amount of bowls of the stuff we have here. So much food. All right, we booked this in two separate flights. One with Scoot this morning and one with Jetstar, which means we have to come through immigration, which we just did, and then go back through to the other side. It doesn't take too long, to be honest. This airport is pretty quick and we'll be heading to Medan soon. All in all, we're in the country for about 10 minutes, but it's fine. But honestly, the more you travel, the more I try and avoid that because that's a big stamp in your passport. Your passport like fills up and you run out of pages and you had to get a new one. But still, first world problems. I think this is gonna help. Help you with what? And you can actually really hard. Good exercise. I don't know this person. Guys, this is what you can look forward to in our vlogs through Sumatra. There's plenty more of this. Okay, then just about four hours outside the country. Now back to Indonesia. Couldn't stay away. Next up, Sumatra. Feels like I'm going to a new country. Yeah, it kind of is. I think Sumatra will be a... It's like a different country to Bali. Yeah, probably. Wow, well, if that sunset is anything to go by, then Sumatra is gonna be awesome. Welcome to Medan. We are through and we just have to now get a taxi into the center of Medan. We're about an hour outside. I just had a quick look and I think the best way is gonna be just to get a Grab or go car to get all the way there. Best and easiest. I think you can also get a bus and a train, but I think, you know, it's already late. It's about 8 p.m. It's gonna be easiest to get a Grab. All right, we've only been here about five minutes and already Olivia has noticed that we are the only, well, the only foreigners around right now. And on the plane as well, I think. It's not Bali anymore. Well, it's crazy, like the amount of people that just don't leave Bali. Even lots of people I know, they just go to Bali and don't see the rest of Indonesia. So I'm glad we can. She has good English. Wow, wow. I think we made it. Everything. Yeah, I made it. Okay, guys, get ready for a sexy room tour. Yeah, this is us. We're getting pretty much proper backpack for the next couple of weeks. This is just like, it's just a bed to sleep in, really. We wanna try and do as much as possible while we're here. So we're gonna be out a lot of the time and so we don't really need a really nice room. We're just staying here. Actually, we're gonna go out straight away now as well. We're gonna go explore a bit of Medan tonight. It's already 9.30, so I don't know what's going on. We're gonna go have a look and then explore all day tomorrow as well. All right, we have no real plans for tonight, but apparently there's a good, like sort of street food street called Merdeka Walk. So we're gonna walk down there because it's only about 500 meters away and see what we find. I'm gonna do my full first impressions at the end of this video after tomorrow. But initial first impressions is I actually expected Medan to be a lot bigger. Like this is the fourth largest city in Indonesia. It's got like 2 million population, I think. And we're right in the center. It doesn't feel that busy. You know, like I've spent a fair bit of time in Jakarta and that's just like crazy city and I was expecting something like that. But right now, so far, it's not like the buildings aren't that big. It's not that busy and there's not that much traffic really. Right guys, I was reading about Medan earlier and this is a restaurant to try called Tip Top. We're not gonna do it now, but maybe we will tomorrow. Yeah, I have no idea if this is right or not, but I think that's been here since 1934. And I don't know, somewhere like that time. And apparently it's really good food. But who knows? Okay, I'm pretty sure this is now Merdeka Walk. It's like a full street of food and music and stuff. I've only just got to it, so I don't really have anything much more to say than we are here and we're gonna go have a look. Yup. How funny, like we just got interviewed straight away for like a university assignment. And that used to happen quite a lot in Java and like we've been here for like an hour and that happened straight away. It's cool, it's fun, right? Yeah, it's fun. It's nice. Okay, I might be wrong here. Merdeka, I think means freedom. Yeah. So I think this is like Freedom Square and this is like Freedom Street. So I think Merdeka is freedom. Right, this place does seem good for food and we've just been walking along seeing so many options that we both want. But unfortunately, we've been eating all day at the airport. So we're not gonna be here tonight. We're gonna go back, get some rest and then get a full day tomorrow. I'm actually gonna finish it here and I will see you in a few seconds in the morning. It is now the morning after and we're back at Merdeka Walk. I have a coffee to just kick off the day. And I'm actually gonna cut this video short here because there's loads of things we want to do today which I think kind of deserves its own video about Medan. So I'm gonna finish this now. There's loads to come up in Medan, in Sumatra. We're here for the next few weeks and we're looking forward to it. I hope you enjoyed this video. A brief introduction to Medan, Sumatra. Thank you for watching. And this is my life.