Bukit Tinggi – Banda Aceh Ride (Part 10 – The End)

Continued from Part 9.

Some Unique and Interesting Point in Banda Aceh

This Baiturrahman Mosque is located in the center of the city and is an icon of Banda Aceh.

Bukit Tinggi – Banda Aceh Ride (Part 8)

Continued from Part 7.

Day 5: Medan -Banda Aceh

Today is going to be long ride of more than 640 Km. So we woke up very early morning to be able to start immediately after Sholat Subuh and expecting to arrive in Banda Aceh before the dark. Today is the longest day ride we have in this touring but due to the smooth asphal road and some long straight road on this route, we anticipate the time would be a lot shorter than our ride from Bukit Tinggi to Prapat. This is our route map.

Bukit Tinggi – Banda Aceh Ride (Part 7)

Continued from Part 6.

No more bad road. And now we start enjoying a nicer road and some quite safe for speedy a bit.

Bukit Tinggi – Banda Aceh Ride (Part 5)

Continued from Part 4.

Day 3: Prapat Medan

After having a long and hard ride yesterday, today we will have a relaxing day. It will only about 132 Km ride and we do not expect bad road like we had yesterday.

Bukit Tinggi – Banda Aceh Ride (Part 4)

Continued from Part 3.

A quite big gas station after Padang Sidempuan. They sold Pertamax here. To be safe, each time we filled in the gas full tank every about 150 km ride.

Bukit Tinggi – Banda Aceh Ride (Part 2)

Continued from Part 1.

Day 2: Bukit Tinggi – Prapat

Today is a hard and long ride. It will be 510 Km ride and we are expecting some bad road after crossing North Sumatra border. This is our Route Map for today:

Bukit Tinggi – Banda Aceh Ride (Part 1)

Day 1 (12-09-2009): Bukit Tinggi – Harau Valley – Bukit Tinggi

Ok, this time we managed to skip (again) 3 days from the office and make use of the Independence Day long weekend to continue our ride from Bukit Tinggi to Banda Aceh. We have 15 bikes all together, that consist of 5 Ducati Multistrada, 6 Ducati Monster, 2 Ducati ST, 1 Ducati SS, and Samuel the Desmosedici Man, bring his GSX 1000.

Today, we flew by morning flight from Jakarta to Padang and directly went to Bukit Tinggi by car. This is a relaxing day. No rush and later we will only warm up the bike and ride to Harau Valley, not too far from Bukit Tinggi.

Bengkulu-West Sumatra Ride 2009 – Part 9 (The End)

Continued from Part 8.

Rode down the hill, we continued the ride to Solok and Singkarak Lake.

Singkarak is another beautiful lake in this area. It is also famous with its “Ikan Bilis” that usually being dried and fried. Hm.. that is so crispy and yummy… See these beautiful Singkarak Lake pics.

Bengkulu-West Sumatra Ride 2009 – Part 8

Continued from Part 7.

Day 3 Padang – Bukit Tinggi

Today is actually more relaxing ride from late to lake in West Sumatra Province for about 250 Km total ride through mountain area.

Padang in the evening – Bengkulu-West Sumatra Ride 2009 – Part 7

In Padang we met with Grace and Ratih who joined us from here. But this evening we simply enjoyed the food and the view of “Padang in the evening”.