{"id":143,"date":"2009-04-15T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-04-15T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:07:42","slug":"moving-on-fro-medan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/moving-on-fro-medan\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving on from Medan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been living in Medan for the past two months and decided that I want to see more of Indonesia.  My visa is expiring so I need to make a dash for Penang and hopefully get a Social visa which will allow me to stay here for six months without having to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to eating some good Indian food in Penang and stocking up on some English books.  Most travelers pass through Medan on their way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laketoba.info\">Lake Toba<\/a> or Bukit Lawang but I think it is worth staying for a few days and to be honest it wouldn&#8217;t be a bad place to live as an expat.  The food is good and it is cheap to live.<\/p>\n<p>When I get back from Malaysia I am planning to travel through Java to Bali, Lombok and the Gili Islands.  Perhaps staying in Bali for a while and taking some trips to Kalimantan and Sulawesi, which should be a bit of an adventure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_144\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/medan-indonesia-architecture.jpg\" alt=\"Medan has some beautiful old buildings which I hope the city tries to preserve\" title=\"medan-indonesia-architecture\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/medan-indonesia-architecture.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/medan-indonesia-architecture-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medan has some beautiful old buildings which I hope the city tries to preserve<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been living in Medan for the past two months and decided that I want to see more of Indonesia. My visa is expiring so I need to make a dash for Penang and hopefully get a Social visa which will allow me to stay here for six months without having to leave the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}