I walked away from Pasar Buah and headed over to Kabanjahe, about 10KM from Brastagi. I didn’t quite remember what time it was, maybe around 2PM.

I know very well that there are so many culinary spots in Kabanjahe, so it wasn’t hard for me to choose what to eat for lunch.

The hardest part was to decide where to have lunch. There are so many available options with cheap price and delicious foods.

In the end I chose Babi Panggang Karo (Karonese Grilled Pork, with pig blood sauce), a non-halal food which is made with the special recipe of Karo.

After eating my lunch, I was too full to continue walking/traveling. I sat for a while and occasionally listened to the chatter of Karonese around me.

There was a couple of western tourists sitting next to me, and they were the ones the local Karonese were chatting about. It was quite fun to hear it out.

Sipiso-Piso Waterfall was on the top list of destinations I made before, but after looking at the clock, it was impossible to get there.

So I decided to end my trip that day and went back to Brastagi after walking the streets of Kabanjahe for a couple hours.

I also visited Pasar Buah once again to buy high quality fruits as a souvenir for my parents. Once I got there, I didn’t see Pak Uda anymore.

A fellow fruits seller told me that he went home to get prepared for attending his relative’s wedding party. After I was done with my business, I took a public transport heading to Medan City.

I dropped off in an area called Penatapan. Penatapan is known as a place where you can get delicious roasted corn sold by the locals, located along a long road headed to Medan, Jamin Ginting Street.

I stopped by just to enjoy some roasted corns and drinking coffee, also enjoying the wind blowing; slapping my cheeks and hair.

I also drank a sugarcane juice, purely made without any artificial sweeteners. The price in total was not too expensive, besides, I could interact and play with so many kinds of monkeys, at the rear of the cottage, which called imbo by the locals.

So after spending a full day traveling around Tanah Karo, North Sumatra, I went back home.


 So here’s the list of destinations I visited that day:

  1. Mickey Holiday, Brastagi
  2. The Museum of Karo, Brastagi
  3. Gundaling, Brastagi
  4. Desa Lingga, 15 KM from Brastagi
  5. Pasar Buah, Brastagi
  6. Monument of Heroes, Brastagi
  7. Kabanjahe
  8. Penatapan, Deli Serdang

Most of destinations on the list I first created were the ones I had ever visited, so it was changed so much on the final list.

Actually the most important things on this article are not the destinations I have visited, but my experiences and the advantages of traveling without a single digital tech in hands.

I’m trying to tell you how fun it was, and how great it could affect you too. My day-trip without a single digital tech was really wonderful, and I’m willing to do that over and over again.


A day-trip without a single DIGITAL TECH gave me these advantages:

  1. I could enjoy my day-trip perfectly. No distractions, no notifications, everything you might imagine all this time while having a trip.
  2. The best help I could get was me myself. I could only rely on myself at anything. I found myself so useful that day because the one I depended on was myself.
  3. I could enjoy all the activities perfectly. My vision worked great, so active as it should be.
  4. United with the atmosphere wherever I was.
  5. And so many other things that I cannot describe.

But, there are always pros and cons in everything. So here are a few cons:

The disadvantages of traveling without a single digital tech

  1. No camera no documentation. I always love to have pictures for documenting my trips.
  2. No favorite musics. I always listen to my favorite musics to enjoy my trips, but that was an exception.
  3. I missed so many calls from my friends and parents, and also missed so many job offers from my clients.
  4. That’s all

That was just one of my ideas to have a full day without a single digital tech. After that trip I always try to find many ways to have a beautiful day without any gadgets and other digital techs.

As a freelance web developer and blogger, as you now, I always spend hours everyday working in front of computer  and interacting with others through smartphones.

Without even realizing it I am always stuck with techno-stress, which is no good at all. Maybe you feel the same way.

I’ve done several activities for a day without digital tech that I’d always love to share with y’all. Since technostress is no good at all, you might want to get yourself free for any kind of digital technologies, just for one day, and you can do that by taking your time to:

  • Go to random places with your friends. Going to some new places is great, try it!
  • Do sports! Swimming, jogging, trekking etc. Make sure to pick sport you’d love to do and also pick the good spot.
  • Forget Malls! Back to Nature!
  • Do you love culinary? Try the best ones in your city.
  • Make yourself busy by doing your non-tech hobbies, whatever it is from reading books, knitting, attending local festival, going to museum, going to city park, watching live music, anything you’d love to!
  • Yoga? I’m not much into yoga, but if you have it in mind, don’t hesitate to try it too!

So that was how I enjoyed my day-trip without a single digital tech, and those are the ways you could try to enjoy yours too.

A day-trip without a single digital tech is really good for every traveler. Maybe that’s something you can do to maximize your traveling experience.


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Was it helpful? I hope so. Enjoy your day.

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