Now this is the time for you to tell your experience visiting Lake Toba!
What do you think about Lake Toba in terms of the accomodation, transportation, the people or the goverment? After being in Lake Toba, do you think Lake Toba is deserved to be top priority holiday trip? Do you want to go there for your second time?
C'mon! Speak Up!
May be many people give various advice on how to go to Lake Toba.
They mostly recommend using plane to Medan and continue the trip by using bus ending in Lake Toba.
Actually, this not totally wrong. But it lies some technical problems. Where to go after arrived in Medan Airport? How long it will take from Medan to Lake Toba? Is there any visitors guide in Medan to help tourist go to Lake Toba?
These question really gives burden to tourist who want to go to Lake Toba without wasting time in Medan-Lake Toba trip. Tourist absulutely being exhausted after spending 6 hours in the bus, right?
Now, there is a great solution to enjoy Lake Toba without spending time in the bus. You can go directly to Lake Toba by plane (from Medan Airport, of course). REALLY? Yes, Silangit Airport which lies in nothern Lake Toba, has been officially opened by President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2005. The runway have a length of 2.350 meters and a width of 30 meters . In 2007 this airport can accomodate a Boeing aircraft. So far, there are two airlines providing routes from Medan Airport to Silangit Airport, Merpati Airlines and Susi Airlines. The fare of Polonia-Silangit is Rp.300.000 or 30 USD. Flight schedule for Susi Airlines is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,Saturday and Monday: take off 12.30 o'clock and arrived in Silangit 14.00 o'clock. You can buy the tickets in Polonia Medan Airport.
Now, you can go to Lake Toba directly from Medan Airport without spending a long time in the bus! Silangit airport for Lake Toba!
Danau 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. Thousand local and foreign visitors come to Lake Toba to see and enjoy the beauty of Lake Toba. If we descend from the mountain we see the lake glittering in all its beauty. The Dutch writer Rudy Kousbroek even called Lake Toba, 'the most beautiful place on earth'. Most visitors stay on the peninsula of Tuk Tuk on Samosir, named after the linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk. In general people stay several days on Samosir to discover the island, to visit traditional Batak villages, to swim in the lake and go to the hot springs in Pangururan.
Samosir, the large island in the center of the lake, is the home of the Toba batak, considered -at least by the Toba Batak - as the original Batak tribe. One of the prominent ethnic groups in the archipelago, Bataks living in distant cities will regularly return to their ancestral island. Even people not sharing the spiritual and historic connection with the island often return to Samosir, drawn by the enchanting natural beauty and fascinating culture.
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