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another of life's passages...
... we decide to move on down the road to the Tabo Inn cottages.... We're staying on Lake Toba, a naturally beautiful crater lake in north central Sumatra...should be a tourist haven and I guess at one time it was...but with the bombings in ...
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Beautiful Danau Toba
... We arrived in Lake Toba and spent two days relaxing in beautiful surroundings and swimming in the cool, clear waters of the lake. Lake Toba marks the site of the largest volcanic eruption in over 2 million years and was formed when a supervolcano blew ...
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Lounging by the lake & smiling til our jaws ache!
We had been told great things about Lake Toba the last time we were in Sumatra, so this time around we put it on the 'must-do' list. Our first impressions of the Lake was that this was a peaceful atmospheric place where relaxation was hard to ...
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ooh ooh aah - Jungle Trek....
We decided to come back down to Indonesia with Kate and Darren in search of the wild orangutans and to see Lake Toba. We had been told many good things about the lake last time we were in Bukittinggi but the 18+ hours bus journey complete with sick bags ...
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Heaven on earth!
... for 5 pounds a night!!!!! We were in heaven and both sat there on the balcony with stupid grins on our faces! The water at Lake Toba is so clear and warm, Paul was like a little kid and must have decreased the water level quite drastically throughout the ...
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Onto Medan...in a roundabout sort of way!!!
Reluctantly we left Lake Toba and decided to make our way to Berstagi which is a town surrounded by 2 volcanoes! Our modes of transport throughout the day proved to be adventuresome and never boring - the first we literally must have passively smoked ...
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Journey Through 44 Hairpin Bends To A Caldera Lake
... is used for aquaculture and 2 different species of small fish are found to be in abundance here. Unlike Lake Toba in North Sumatra which I have written about in a previous entry, this lake has a natural outlet and thus you could see ...
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Beaches and Circumcisions
... wasn't until the next day but as that seemed to be the best place we ended up paying it and staying there. Lake Toba reminded us a bit of Pangkor Island in Malaysia it was like going on someone elses holiday. There is virtually no western tourism ...
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Merry Christmas and a Slothful New Year
... your current long distance provider"? I guess somebody's gotta do it. It was right around this time that we learned that Lake Toba is immensely popular with Chinese people as a New Year's Eve destination. A lot of our fellow travelers were ...
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just chillin'
... , tailgating (5cm or so). The most terrifying drive of my life- how we didnt have a head-on collision I have no idea. Lake Toba, by contrast, is extremely relaxing. Weve been here 4 days, and really havnt done much. We changed GH yesterday cos ours ...
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