"Lake Toba is the largest of God's grace to the Nation Batak in particular and Indonesia, which serves as a symbol, pride, reminders, unifying to be enjoyed, preserved and cared for and is part of the promised land."
The lake is a large basin in the earth's surface is flooded by water can be fresh or salted whole basin is surrounded by land. The formation of a lake can be caused by several factors such as, Lake Tectonics, Vulkanilk Lake, Lake Tektovulkanik, Natural Dam Lake, Lake karst, glacial lakes and Artificial Lake. Many countries in the region even as the world famous Finnish lake known as the "Land of Thousand Lakes", Minnesota is known as the "Land of Ten Thousand Lakes" and North America (Canada) approximately 60% of lakes in the world is located there.
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Lake other than the famous one due to the formation of the lake, the lake is also famous for into it, keluasannya, and kerendahannya height above sea level and type of water. Some of the famous lake in the World, among others, the Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world that includes some of the State, Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world is the United States and Canada, Lake Baikal (Siberia) in the world's deepest lake, Lake Titicaca (South America) is the highest lake above sea level, Lake of the Dead Sea (Israel, Jordan, Palestine) is the lowest lake beneath the surface of the sea and lakes that contain lots of salt so that no life forms that survive in salt water, Lake Huron (United States, Canada ) is a freshwater lake that has the largest island (Manitoulin Island) and middle-middle of Lake Toba (Indonesia) is a freshwater lake also has an adjoining island called "Island Naidoo" is the world's largest lake formed by volcanic activity / eruption volcano and is located in a volcanic crater in the world passively.
The Greatest Toba LakeIt is estimated that Lake Toba explosion occurred at about 73 thousand-75 thousand years ago and is a super volcano eruption (super volcano) the most recent. Bill Rose and Craig Chesner of Michigan Technological University estimate that volcanic materials spewed out of the mountain as much as 2800 km ³, with 800 km ³ of rock and 2,000 km ³ overlies the volcanic ash which is expected in the wind to the west for two weeks.
After the eruption, the caldera formed which is then filled with water and became what is now known as Lake Toba. Upward pressure by magma that has not come out cause the appearance of the island. While enjoying the beauty of this lake, you may not imagine that the charm of the place comes from the catastrophic volcanic eruption that brought fear and horror at the time.
Road trip to Lake Toba, precisely to Parapat, takes four to five hours from Medan. There is a bus or travel directly to Parapat. The route passes Lubuk Pakam, Cliff High, and turn toward Siantar. Along the way, we are treated to a panorama of palm oil and rubber plantations.
If by train, from Medan select a route to Siantar. From here the journey continues by bus to Parapat. Latency time of one hour.
For places to stay and stay longer to enjoy the beauty of Lake Toba, there are many hotels and inns. In Parapat, there are at least 900 hotel rooms of various types, ranging from four star to homestay, in Tuktuk also not different. Both in Parapat and Tuktuk, tourists can enjoy the lake from the rim. Hotel rates in Tuktuk and Parapat vary, according to typical tourists who come. Starting from Rp 30.000 to Rp 500.000 per night depending on the type of hotel.
A travel company even offers to enjoy the beauty of Lake Toba from the air, which is using the paragliding. Each traveler was given the opportunity to fly using the paragliding from the mountains Tongging, Karo regency, North Sumatra. For tourists who want to try paragliding will be accompanied by an experienced instructor, but of course the determination to fly or not depending on weather and wind conditions.
Not only that, enjoy the beautiful sunrise and sunset you can enjoy from the coastal lakes. From the Karo highlands in the north, the lake looks elongated elegance is seen from Sikodonkodon. However, there is only one resort here. On the west side, views of the lake and the island of Samosir can be perfectly seen from the Tele. There is a substation of view at an altitude of about 1,000 meters from sea level to enjoy the sunset at Lake Toba.
There are several lakes in the world that almost has in common with lake toba lake like Lake Huron (United States, Canada), but the uniqueness of Lake Toba is much more powerful than the existing lakes in the world, besides the beauty and the occurrence of lake Toba caused a volcanic eruption. Lake Toba is the only lake that became the source of life of the community and surrounding environment. Community or tribe Batak Batak (Toba, Karo, Simalungun, Pakpak) are citizens who live in the area of Lake Toba. Since the formation of Lake Toba is also forming a new civilization in Indonesia even in the world. Lake Toba has become one of the area and living symbol of the Batak people, many of which tells the story occurs from Lake Toba Batak folklore, even mystical, this is what makes people so respect the Batak of Lake Toba.
Many sources have been promoted on Lake Toba even foreign tourists also visit there very often, and now Lake Toba became one of the attractions of foreign and domestic tourist destination.
Indonesia does have many famous attractions such as, Bali, Komodo Island Nusa Tenggara, and Lake Toba is a mainstay attraction, especially for Lake Toba is the Government not paying attention, so the promotion of Lake Toba in addition carried out by people who love social institutions of Lake Toba tourists also have been to Lake Toba Batak and those who are abroad.
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| Tor Tor Batak (Batak Dance) |
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| Kids Playing Around The Lake Toba |
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Lake Toba area is cool and much overgrown with pine trees, as well as a water catchment area for the forests there has been a source of livelihood other than as a tourist area, as well as the daily livelihood of the fishermen who catch fish in the lake toba. The condition of Lake Toba area is now very disturbed by the presence of one major industry PT. Toba Pup Lestari (TPL), which produces paper for their products. It is not known why these companies exist, a lot of resistance that has been done around the Lake Toba area because of the waste generated by these companies. Lake Toba has also been a proponent of producing electricity over large companies such as PT. Inalum controlled by foreigners.
Come To Lake Toba
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| Mother's carrying her baby going to her farm |
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| Most of Batak are Christian |
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| Inang-Inang mambohan Tandok ( Ladys Carrying some rice at Tandok to Party) |
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| Swimming at The Lake Toba |
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| Inang-inang mambohan Hau ( Old Lady carrying some Woods) |
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| Children Going To School |