We arrived in Banda Ache two days later, having ridden 680km from Medan. These days Banda Ache has become synonymous with the destructive wrath of nature since the 26 December 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 220,000 in the Banda Ache and the along the Ache coast.
At the moment the town of Ache is a construction site filled with earth-moving equipment and dumper trucks as well as NGO's.
Accomodation in the town would have serous damage to our piggy bank so we headed straight to the island of Weh or Pulau Weh as it is locally called. Image-1, leaving coast of Banda Ache in the distance





The ferry from main Banda Ache takes two hours to arrive in Pulau Weh. The island used to be more important than Singapore before the WWII, you could not imagine why and what ever was important then has now disappeared. But the place is very laid back and perfect place to take a rest and do some snorkeling. Oh the roads leading to the small resorts of Iboih and Gapang are bad!