Posts Tagged ‘parapat’
May 25th, 2009 | 
Author: Hello, if you have a plan to lake toba in north sumatera. the biggest lake in the asia and the second lake in the world, you can do the trip with enjoy.
- If you arrive in the polonia airport, you can take a taxi in to siantar city. there are many taxi, likes paradep, the cost is Rp.40.000,- the trip about 2,5 hours
- After you arrive in the siantar, you can take on bus parisma straight into parapat, or you can take with intra parapat. the cost about Rp.7.000,- the trip about 1 hours Read the rest of this entry »
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Lake Toba, or Danau Toba in Indonesian, is the largest year-round lake in Southeast Asia. Although it is smaller in size than the Tonle Sap of Cambodia, unlike the Tonle Sap, Lake Toba is pretty consistent in its size. Also, being a volcanic lake, Lake Toba is much, much deeper than Tonle Sap. Hence, it holds much more water than Tonle Sap, 240 km3 vs about for Tonle Sap.
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Batak House around lake toba
Batak Museum in Tomok is one of the three that I have visited. The other two are in Simanindo and Pematang Purba. Both the museums in Simanindo and Pematang Purba are former residences of Batak rulers, whereas the one in Tomok, although located a short walking distance from the Tomb of the Sidabutar kings is one specially set up to showcase the Batak culture in Tomok.
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lake toba parapat
The town of Prapat, as seen from our chartered boat on Lake Toba. We stayed at the Danau Toba International Cottage, which is the row of building with red roofs at water’s edge.
Prapat, also written Parapat, is a small town on the eastern shore of Lake Toba, about 170km from Medan, in North Sumatra. Since colonial times, Prapat has been a weekend getaway and resort town for those escaping the heat and bustle of Medan. In my opinion, although some places in Prapat, especially along the shore, is quite scenic, on the whole, it is not a pretty town. In fact, there is no good reason to remain long at Prapat. Despite being a tourist town for generations, there is actually little in terms of attractions that is available to visitors to Prapat, and tourists are well advised to proceed to Samosir Island.
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