One day in Medan, Indonesia

A day through Medan’s best-known sights that lie close together: North Sumatra Museum, Great Mosque of Medan, Maimun Palace, Sumatran Numismatic Museum, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Gang Bengkok Old Mosque. 6 stops, about 3.2 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. North Sumatra MuseumMuseum · On the map
  2. Great Mosque of MedanMosque · 1.3 km on from North Sumatra Museum · On the map
  3. Maimun PalacePalace · 0.4 km on from Great Mosque of Medan · On the map
  4. Sumatran Numismatic MuseumMuseum · 0.8 km on from Maimun Palace · On the map
  5. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin MaryCathedral · 0.3 km on from Sumatran Numismatic Museum · On the map
  6. Gang Bengkok Old MosqueMosque · 0.5 km on from Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary · On the map

6 stops, 4 km on foot along the streets: about 50 min of walking.

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Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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