Hotels in Medan

Medan is the third largest city in all of Indonesia and is home to over 2 million people making it the largest Indonesian city outside of Java. Located in the north of Sumatra, you will find that there is a great multicultural vibe around the city with many people from all over Asia in the ethnic melting pot including Chinese, north Indians, Southern Indians and people from all over Indonesia including the Toba-Batak people. Due to the mix of ethnic backgrounds in the city of Medan, there are a lot of cultures represented in the city visible in the dinning, entertainment and shops as well as the architecture and the neighborhoods around the area. The hotels is Medan offer proximity to the center of the city with the shopping and nightlife located all around you although there are others that are located out of the city and around the coast which is a beautiful place to have a holiday and enjoy the nearby sights such as the outstandingly beautiful Lake Toba not far south of the city of Medan.

As with most tropical hotels, you can expect that the Medan Hotels will have air conditioning and hot water in the en suite bathrooms. You will also have a television with international channels ad plenty of DVDs to enjoy while you are relaxing in your room. Rooms service and city transport is provided in almost all Medan hotels and you will e able able to take tours of the surrounding areas of interest including the beautiful Lake Toba. With multiple dinning facilities, most restaurants offer incredible Chinese, Indonesian and Indian food as well as western dishes in specialized restaurants within the hotel. Expect a pool and small grounds where you will be bale to relax and enjoy the fitness studio and other activities.

Staying out of town you will find that the incredible and large multiple room conference complexes and the business facilities will be smaller then those of the Medan Hotels located in the city around the business district. Instead the focus is usually on leisure, you will find holiday resorts, private villa and cottage set ups as well as conventional hotels located around the mountainsides looking down into the valleys and across the rivers as well or on the beaches under the coconut groves where you can look out to sea and enjoy eating the freshest possible seafood right on the beach. Due to Medan's multicultural cultural beauty, you are able to try out a very high quality of food from all over the world. You will also be able to see performances from around the world and with so much architecture from the world over you ca take one of the interesting tours showing a mix of these or specializing in just one of them. Tours are also available that go out f the city and usually you will find that your Medan Hotel will be affiliated with one of the companies and therefore offer reduced prices.

Tourist destination of North Sumatra:

Medan
Medan is primary gateway to Sumatra. The capital of the province of North Sumatera, Medan houses the government offices and business centers. Medan became the capital of a powerful sultanate in the late 1800s, then developed into booming plantation town during the early 1900s as Sumatra's tobacco, rubber, palm oil and tea fetched high price on the world markets. Medan owes its cultural heritage to the kingdom of Deli, whose place of worship, Mesjid Agung (Grand Mosque), and palace, Istana Maimun (The Maimun Palace) undoubtedly show its past greatness.

Lake Toba
Lake Toba, the crater lake in the middle of the province, is a popular tourist resort, especially the town of Parapat on its shore. Formed by a stupendous prehistoric volcanic explosion, the 100 km long lake is the largest is Southeast Asia and one of the deepest and highest in the world. The drama of that cataclysmic birth persist in 500 meter cliffs dropping into the blue-green waters, Surrounded by steep, pine covered sloped, the climate is fresh and pleasant, with just enough rain to support the lush vegetation. Its cool and dry mountain climate makes it the perfect place to relax.

The Karo highland
As you drive south from Medan into the Karo highland, the Great Bukit Barisan Forest Park greets you with its distinctive Karonese gazebo decorated with ret-ret, a two-headed, lizard-like animal that is carved on the walls of traditional Karonese family houses. Along the windy, mountainous road to the Karo highland, as you pass the Sibolangit National Garden, chants of monkeys and possibly orang-utans will accompany you, mysteriously appearing and disappearing from the thick jungle.

Sipiso-piso Waterfall and Tongging
Further south from Berastagi and Kabanjahe, the Karonese portion of Lake Toba is marked with a thin yet tall waterfall.

Nias
Island Off to the west of the island of Sumatera. Enormous breakers pummel the island of Nias attracting the best surfers in the world to Lagundri Beach. The unforgiving power attacking the shore seems to have bred the same qualities in the people, whose militaristic culture has fascinated anthropologists for decades.. The water surrounding the island is a great place to surf and to scuba dive.

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