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May 4th, 2009 | 
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Traditional Batak house in Tomok, with grain being dried in the yard, and a less-than-traditional satellite dish at the back.
Tomok is one of the main towns on Samosir Island, in Lake Toba. It has a jetty for ferries coming in from Prapat, which is 30 minutes away on the eastern bank of the lake.
Hugging the Tomok jetty are souvenir shops, again every store selling almost the same items. Tourists thinking of buying cheap t-shirts should try them out before purchasing. What I discovered was that the Indonesian sizes are much smaller than back home, so the same size might not fit. Read the rest of this entry »
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