At the entrance of the second floor stand two huge statues of St. Paul, the Apostles of nations and St. Francis Xavier, the Apostles of Asia welcoming the visitors. As soon as we...

Annai Velangkanni... Graha Maria Annai Velangkanni. The infamous place in Medan where all would come be it a Catholic or not. Indeed this is one place you should not miss. ...

Poor Clares . . . this is a real adventure! I mean getting there. There is no proper road to the location, and our bus could not get to the location either. We...

Reaching Berastagi, we visited the St Franciscan church Fransiskus. Detailed painting in dark maroon red and white and its traditional pointy slope dark grey roof. ...

Falling fast asleep after the snacks at Simarjarunjung to Tongging, Sipisopiso Waterfall. The waterfall is a 110m drop from a cave opening. Didn't have much time to explore much, instead we went straight...

After filling up the tummy with Pisang Goreng and Teh Halia. We have a few quick snap shots before we were chased up into the bus to get moving. The nice panoramic view...

Leaving the Samosir Island we went through lush greenery and plantations of coffee and fruits we came up to a hill top of a place where Pisang Goreng (Banana fritters) and Teh Halia...

Toledo Inn - Next morning : The walkabout before we depart from the island to our next destination. It was indeed a beautiful landscape of land, sea and sky. With the soothing breeze...

Located at the banks of the volcanic lake, Toledo Inn was surrounded by lush trees. They had a small place cordon off from the lake as their pool. ...

At the jetty of the Samosir Island. It was a short walk distance to the court of King Sialiagan. Passing through row of shops selling local handicraft such as wallets, bags, clothes, belts,...

Tomok, where the the Tomb of King Sidabutar is located a short walk away from the lake, at a little uphill from the main road passing through a small alley with souvenir stalls....

Since we are already talking about the lake, here are the beautiful views in the morning of the lake the following day after our stay at Toledo Inn. It was more cooling in...

Lake Toba or Danau Toba with the Samosir Island, forms the heart of the beautiful a beautiful caldera high in the treeless mountains of northern Sumatra. The lake was formed about 100,000 years...

We stopped by at St Fidelis Church, a small bricked white church on our way downhill from the Niagara Hotel. There is a small compound for Mother Mary. It seems all churches had...

The walkabout at Niagara Hotel and Resort. Do bear with me on the whole load of pictures! I could not resist on sharing them . . . (^▽^) ...

Waking up a as early as at 5am to proceed to our next destination after our breakfast – Lake Toba. We seize the time available before and after breakfast to capture the beautiful...

Niagara Hotel and Resort is situated high on a hill overlooking the Lake Toba at Parapat. It does indeed the most beautiful scenery of Lake Toba as they claimed in their website. We...

Other than the father and some sisters in the area, we did not meet other Capuchins friar in the area. Anyway, after lunch father show us around the compound and the facilities available...

It was almost an hour plus of drive from the Paten to the retreat house. Driving through palm estate and narrow road which only allows two small cars to pass is an old...

Upon arrival at the Polonia Airport, Medan Indonesia we were greeted by our local tour guide and was shown to our bus. The Polonia Airport is quite small and it is just a...