Lake Toba

Lake Toba is a very big lake in North Sumatera, Indonesia. This lake is the hometown for the ethnich Batak. This lake is the biggest lake in South East Asia, long 100 kilometers and wide 30 kilometers. There is an island in the center of this lake Pulo Samosir or Samosir Island. This lake surrounded by hills. You can enjoy the hill while you travel by ferry from Ajibata and Parapat to the Samosir Isalnd.

According to the folk story this lake made because the anger of a wife to her husband cause her husband angry to their son, his husband said to their son that his mother is a fish. His husband broke the agreement between her and his husband, the agreement was that her husband cannot say the true identity of his wife to their son. His wife was a fish who transformed to be a human.

Lake Toba

According to science this lake is a volcanic lake. Lake Toba is the site of a massive super volcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago. It is the largest known explosive eruption on Earth in the last 25 million years. It killed most humans living at that time and is believed to have created a population bottleneck in central east Africa and India, which affects the genetic.the eruption of Toba led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decrease in temperature between 3 to 5 °C (5.4 to 9.0 °F), and up to 15 °C (27 °F).

If you want to visit this lake you can fly to the airport Bandara Kuala Namu in North Sumatera. From this airport you can travel by public bus like Intra, Sejahtera, Sentosa, etc or you cant rent travel car or taxi. By bus from the airport to this lake cost about $3. You can travel to Parapat, this lake is in Parapat. And if you want to visit Samosir Island in this lake you can travel by ferry, it cost about $1, you can also shipped your car by bigger ferry, it costs about $5. You can take the ferry the small port Ajibata to Tomok. This ferry travel needs an hour travel from Ajibata to the island in the port Tomok.

There are many hotels, resorts, and cottages in Parapat near to the lake and in Tomok in Samosir Island. Mostly the foreigners, the tourists stayed in Tomok. This lake has clean water, you can swim, fishing, speedboat, banana boat in this lake. There are many fun things to do in this lake. You can also watch traditional performances of Batak ethnic on the Samosir Island like tor-tor(traditional dance), Si Gale-Gale (a dancing doll and an ancient), seeing old funerals, etc. There are some beautiful sites on the Samosir Island like Pusuk Buhit(holy hill), Pasir Putih), aek si pitu dai(fountain), hot fountain, batu parhusipan(holy stone), etc. And you can buy souvenirs in the traditional market Tomok.