Lake Toba

Lake Toba or Danau Toba is a wonderful place in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world. When the people stand around Lake Toba, they will see it is not lake, but sea. Because it has large size 100 m x 30 Km. Lake Toba becomes one of three candidates (Komodo National Park, Krakatau-Volcanic Island, and Lake Toba) for new wonders of nature voted in www.new7wonders.com, for wonders nature category. According geographical position, Lake Toba located at 2.88° N 98.52° E to 2.35° N 99.1° E, in middle of the northern part of Sumatra with a surface elevation of about 900 m (3,000 feet). It is on three regency, they are Simalungun, Parapat and Ambarita, 176 Km from Medan.

Special Treatment of Lake Toba

The Beauty of Lake Toba can’t be imaged only using a picture or sentence. It will be real if you look at by your self. A landscape of Lake Toba with the hills surrounding lake, make a fresh atmosphere and refresh the mind. The visitors sense it with swimming around. In afternoon, they can see the beauty of sun set.Lake Toba has magic and cosmos since it believed as a place where Namborru (seven beloved ancestors of ethnic Batak) was stay. Before Ethnic Batak arranges costume ceremony around the lake, they ask to Namborru for permission, e.g. Toba Festival. There is any ceremonial to respect their ancestor.

In middle of Lake Toba, there is a land, called Pulau Samosir or Samosir Land. It have two Lake, they are Lake Sidhoni and Lake Natonang). They are lake on top of lake. Tourism object in Samosir are the resting place of king Sidaputar in Tomok Village and Traditional House of Batak Toba Samosir. The visitors can reach it using ship from Tomok Village, Samosir.

To reach Lake Toba, the visitors can use Medan-Prapat route or Medan-Berastagi using car or motorcycle about 4-5 hours.


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