Lake Toba - Trip to Beautiful Prehistoric supervolcano

It’s my first post, and I know where I have to start it. Yup, it’s Lake Toba. Maybe some of backpackers have heard about this beautiful attractive tourist resort before. It’s an amazing travel experience with beautiful views,  nice and friendly people, I hardly recommended this place.

I think it’s enough for talking, Straight to the point.

Lake Toba is located in Indonesia (Indonesian : Danau Toba, danau means lake) is a lake formed by a Supervolcano eruption that occured about 69,000-77,000 years ago, and causing a massive climate changing-event. According to the Toba catasthrope theory to which many anthropologists and archeologists subscribe, it had global consequences, killing most humans then alive and affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today. Well, I’m not here for telling you about the eruption, because you can read it on wikipedia..

Lake Toba, “heavily equipped” with amazing views and beautiful panoramic sceneries is definitely one of the  “must visit” resorts when you are in Indonesia. Lake Toba is the largest lake in South East Asia and also one of the most spectacular, surrounded by tall mountains and with the large island of Samosir in the middle. The Dutch writer Rudy Kousbroek even called Lake Toba, ‘the most beautiful place on earth’.  This tourist resort is located in Northern Sumatera province, near Prapat Town (also known as Parapat). You can travel there by car and it takes about 4 hours from Medan (Capital city of North Sumatera). And of course, you can sense the nature along the road you travel. But, there’s also many tour package available that provided by some travel agents. So you can enjoy the trip without much effort. My tips, when you want to take a tour package, you should take the package that provided by travel agents in Medan City. Why? because they are the nearest travel agent to Lake Toba and they know this tourist resort better than others.

The Dutch writer Rudy Kousbroek even called Lake Toba, ‘the most beautiful place on earth’.

 Here are some of the beautiful views:

 

 

Samosir island

Lake Toba is a lake with an island in the middle of the lake, the island is called Samosir island (Indonesian: Pulau Samosir). The most famous place in samosir is Tuk-Tuk (spell it: took-took), named after the linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk. You can travel to Tuk-Tuk by a ferry (small passenger ship) from Prapat town and it takes about 1 hour or less. This resort is a perfect place for buying souvenirs, handicrafts, sculpture and I think the most famous and valuable stuff for Batak People is Ulos. In ancient, ulos is belong to kings or landlords, so if ulos is given to someone, it means a great honour. In general, tourists stay several days on Samosir island to discover the island, to visit traditional Batak villages, to swim in the lake and go to the hot springs in Pangururan.

People
Lake Toba is major lived by an ethnic, called The Bataks (Indonesian: Orang Batak, means Batak People). The Bataks are widely spread in this area. They speak Bataknese (Indonesian: Bahasa Batak, means Batak Language). The Bataks is unique and very friendly, although It’s a common thing if you hear them talking with quite loud voice. Most of Batak People’s religion is Christian, although some of them hold Moslem religion.

 

Tourists wearing Traditional Batak clothes

 

 

Traditional Batak House are noted for their distinctive roofs (which curve upwards at each end, as a boat’s hull does) and their colorful decor.

 

 

Traditional Batak Ulos

I can’t describe any further about Lake Toba, if you want an amazing travel experience, you should try this lovely place..You will find the reasons why you love this exotic resorts. You gonna love this place...