Lake Toba

Lake Toba is a volcanic lake with a size of 100km x 30km area in North Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia. In the middle of this lake there is a volcanic island called Samosir Island.

Historically, this lake was formed by the eruption Supervolcano about 75 thousand years ago. After the eruption occurred, formed a caldera that later filled with water and become lakes. Pressure upward by magma that has not come out cause the emergence of Samosir Island. Samosir Island to the island on the island. If travelers take a walk at noon around the shores of Lake Toba, as in Ambarita, Simanindo District, this area seems too well how explosive ex-thousand years ago.

This area has long attracted the attention of domestic and foreign tourists. Not only because of the condition of Lake Toba is gorgeous, but also the natural beauty of Samosir Island itself.

Barren hills on the outskirts of the lake, seemed full of stones. The crack of the hills with a lake that the population of agriculture and animal husbandry.