We're finally in Medan, aka Gotham City, Sumatra!!! In today's Indonesia Travel Vlog we take you on a walking tour all around Medan city - the capital of North Sumatra. We start the day walking from our hotel about 20 minutes to the Maimun Palace in Medan. When we arrived at the palace it was so busy!! We had to pay 10,000 Rp to enter the palace.....and then we decided to dress up! There were so many people wearing traditional royal costumes to take pictures in the palace, so we joined in too! It was 90,000 Rp each to rent the costumes. We got to choose which color we wanted (she said yellow and green are traditional, but the black is the most popular). Luckily they put the costumes on for us otherwise we would have no idea what we were doing! Carles's costume came complete with a sword while Natalie had a fan. After we were dressed we started taking pictures in and around Maimoon Palace and ended up taking soooo many pictures with everyone else who was visiting! 🤣 After taking lots of pictures, we decided to leave the palace and walk 2 minutes to the Grand Mosque of Medan (Masjid Raya Al-Mashun). The outside of this mosque is GORGEOUS! We were initially planning on trying to go inside of the mosque, but it was getting ready to pour rain and we needed to find clothes to wear so we decided to run away and find shelter! We crossed over the road to an interesting little mall which inititally we were hoping had food, but instead it had an amusement park in the mall as well as a (free?) gym?!? It was by far the strangest mall we went to in Medan! As they did not have any food options, we decided to run across the road again, in the rain, to an Indonesian food court area. There we were able to order Nasi Ayam and Mie Goreng which were SPICY!!!! But at least we avoided the rain. Once the rain stopped we checked out the Sri Deli Park to take pictures with the cute Medan sign! From there we continued walking through the streets of Medan to see the famous water tower - Tirtanadi Tower! It was built in 1908 by Dutch engineers who used strong steel pipes which have kept it standing until today! Apparently it still has pipes that supply water to all of Medan until today! Right next to the water tower is Jalan Selat Panjang - a popular place in Medan to eat street food (however it wasn't very busy when we were there, probably because we were early and it was raining a lot). We walked to Tjong A Fie Mansion - a historical mansion build in 1895 which has been turned into a museum. It was a great place to tour! After all the walking we needed a coffee stop which luckily led us to the coolest building in Medan (the black & white building that we know nothing about)! After coffee, we walked by the Medan City Hall to the post office (Pos Bloc Medan). The Post Office is another historical building turned into a little museum. It was a great and very busy day exploring all over the city of Medan!!!!
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00:01 Intro
00:35 Walking to the Palace
01:15 Crazy Big Medan House
01:34 Medan Padang
01:53 Covered Street
02:16 Maimum Palace Medan
04:02 Medan Palace Entrance
04:26 Royal Costumes at Medan Palace
05:27 Natalie Getting Dressed
05:35 Carles Getting Dressed
06:58 Costumes On
07:27 Pictures Inside the Palace
08:17 Cute!!
09:01 Walking Outside of the Palace
09:50 Leaving Maimoon Palace
10:29 Walking to Raya Al-Mashun Mosque
11:09 The Grand Mosque Medan
12:15 Crossing the Bridge
12:43 Yuki Mall in Medan
13:40 Looking for Indonesian Food
14:48 Super SPICY Nasi Ayam
16:50 Too Spicy For Us 😭
17:40 Medan Sign in Sri Deli Park
18:20 Tirtanadi Water Tower
18:56 Medan Food Street (Jalan Selat Panjang)
20:08 Tjong A Fie Mansion
22:08 Adorable Building in Medan
22:26 Kosu Coffee Shop
22:55 Passing Medan City Hall
22:59 Medan Post Office
23:33 Post Office Museum
23:50 Ending & Plans for Tomorrow!
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