The quiet foreiger's enclave Tuk Tuk on the bulb shaped peninsula facing Parapat on the main land, might be tranquil and peacefull given over almost completely to agriculture now that all the foreigners that once wandered around its winding and hilly streets, are gone. The village has gone back to its quiet village life where gossip is the main entertainment of the local populace.
Tomok, maybe an easy five kilometer walk from Tuk Tuk, is like Ambarita just another small hamlet where women do all the drudgery in and around the house as well as the backbreaking work in the rice paddies - another left-over from their original lineage to the clans of Northern Thailand and Birma....why break your male back and work yourself into a sweat when you can sit back with your mates and enjoy a cold beer and leave that notorious backbreaking work to the women....the sort of male attitute I remember so well from Northern Thailand.
Having a chai in a local chai house some of the clientêle seem to enjoy telling me about the local magic men called DATU in the tongue of the Batak people. According
to these Batak drunks when you are sick or feel out of touch with reality you go see the Datu man who will listen patiently to your complains and then hit you over the head with his Pushasa, a sort of Magic Book. You pay the simple and unschooled Datu a few tatty notes of a thousand Rupee and both of you will be off to the wh*rehouse in Parapat to check if the treatment was effective - I really wonder what sort of physical complains we are talking about here? Tomok, maybe an easy five kilometer walk from Tuk Tuk, is like Ambarita just another small hamlet where women do all the drudgery in and around the house as well as the backbreaking work in the rice paddies - another left-over from their original lineage to the clans of Northern Thailand and Birma....why break your male back and work yourself into a sweat when you can sit back with your mates and enjoy a cold beer and leave that notorious backbreaking work to the women....the sort of male attitute I remember so well from Northern Thailand.
Having a chai in a local chai house some of the clientêle seem to enjoy telling me about the local magic men called DATU in the tongue of the Batak people. According
Also when you wanna get married you have to visit the Datu man together with your bride to be...Mister Datu will first smack you a couple of times over the head with his Tunggal Panaluan, a sort of Magic Stick, and protect your future promising you divine protection in your nuptial life, than sending you out to wait outside while he does his magic number on your bride to be - whatever that is supposed to be. Total fee of all this magic stuff is 5000 Rupee but you can be assured you'll have a wife that will break her back for you in the rice paddies and
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