Introduction

Introduction to Medan

Medan is the provincial capital of Sumatera Utara (North Sumatera). It's a cosmopolitan city with over two milion residents, a business centre for big oil and agricultural companies. Impoerant international investments in the plantation culture had big influence on the developement of Sumatera after 1870, and medan grew from a small village into a thriving colonial city from 60.000 inhabitants in (...)

The city	Traces of a plantation city

Medan has changes pretty much over the last decades. It was a small, thriving city before the Second World War with 60,00 residents, nowadays it's a fast expanding metropole with a little less than 2 milion inhabitanst and very crowded streets full of new office buildings, stores and noisy motorized becaks and minivans which spew of thick clouds of pollution. The population from before the indepen (...)

Travel Medan	Historic places along the Deli

Medan can be used as starting point for a number of excursions in the refgion. The main roads in the area are in pretty good condition, but the surface of the secondary roads (kabupaten) are kind of rough. Travellers which intend to leave the paved roads, can best rent a jeep. Travel agencies in Medan take care of organised daytrips with car and guide. Old Deli Delu (...)