samosir island II

Samosir is a popular tourist destination due to its exotic history and the vistas it offers. The tourist resorts are concentrated in the Tuktuk area. The island is the centre of the Batak culture and many of the Toba Batak traditional houses (rumah adat) remain on the island. Most of the tourist accommodations are concentrated in the small town of Tuktuk, which is located a one-hour ferry ride across the lake from the town of Parapat. A...

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Samosir Island I

Samosir is a small island in the middle of the lake and the lake it's self is in the middle of  the Northern Sumatra, one of the biggest island in the world and a part of Indonesian Archipelago. The island is very unique that created by the super volcanic eruption of mount Toba around 74.000 years ago. The volcanic eruption created the lake as known as Lake Toba and the nature formed the island in the middle of the lake, which is...

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