Sigli Travel Tips


Insider advice for your Sigli vacation

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drbella
Insider
Jan 3, 2008
A picnic in the Acehnese hills 4 stars
Travel Tip: Acehnese hills

Our host family organized a picnic to the mountains which was never quite going to be a conventional experience. The drivers they hired with the cars behaved just like everyone else on the road,... [more]

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drbella
Insider
Jan 3, 2008
An Acehnese wedding 4 stars (1 comment)
Travel Tip: Sigli
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We were staying with friends of a work colleague, and through them we were invited to a wedding and a baby day (to mark 40 days of age, when the baby is allowed out of the house). Both are quite business-like and involve arriving (at a flexible time), shaking hands with the main players,... [more]

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drbella
Insider
Jan 3, 2008
Going out for coffee in Sigli 3 stars
Travel Tip: Sigli

Walking around town is quite entertaining, lots of motor scooters and open drains to dodge, but people are obviously very used to foreigners and usually just want to say hello. The more courageous (usually little boys) like to say Hello Mister and the really advanced speakers yell out Hello... [more]

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drbella
Insider
Jan 3, 2008
Beachgoing in a Muslim country 2 stars
Travel Tip: Sigli

Going to the beach is up there with shopping at the market in terms of important activities and it’s really the nicest place to be in Sigli. The temperature in the Straights of Malacca is never much below 23 degrees and often seems to be more, and the stretch we went to suffers less from Beach... [more]

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drbella
Insider
Jan 3, 2008
snapshot of Aceh a couple of years after the tsunami 4 stars
Travel Tip: Sigli

My first outing was to the beach. It received the full impact of the tsunami and all along the shore are the foundations of houses that were flattened, with new ones built right alongside interspersed with long wooden barrack-type buildings used as emergency accommodation where many families... [more]

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drbella
Insider
Jan 3, 2008
hospital tour whilst visiting Aceh 2 stars
Travel Tip: Sigli

I arrived in Banda Aceh on the domestic flight from Jakarta accompanied by a motley collection of other travellers all in varying degrees of sweaty dishevelment. Sigli is just over a 2 hour drive (hire car complete with driver highly recommended) from Banda Aceh over the mountains and down to... [more]

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