Peace be upon you all. It's been over 3 weeks since I've updated this blogspot and almost a month since I made any story on my Medan-Banda Aceh trip November 2-13. So let me continue from where we left off in the last article on the subject, The Saturday market at Parapat.
What happened was we left Parapat after 2 in the afternoon to head for Medan. While we did made a few stops here and there it was the busy road condition which lead us to reach the biggest city in Sumatera after dark. Thank God we got a nice hotel situated very close to famous Al-Mashun mosque, one of the still standing proud landmark from the days of the greatness of the Malay kingdom of Deli. So after refreshing ourselves we immediately headed for the mosque.
For the record it was the eve of the Muslim festive day of Aidil Adha, a major celebration made every year on the Muslim calendar date of 10th of Zulhijjah (the 12th month).
We came a bit late at night when most people have left the mosque as to have some quiet and privacy.
OK. While this blogspot is used to support the main storytelling in my main blogspot CATATAN SI MERAH SILU, the truth is there has been a disparity.
The storytelling there has reached a point where we were about to leave Medan after staying three nights while this article is set on our first night in the city. So this is actually 3 days behind...
