Samosir, Indonesia Travel Blogs

Tickets or no tickets?!
Sep 5, 2009

Booked a flight to Banda Aceh today and leave tomorrow... This really is a dream come true and I absolutely can not wait. Every day that I travel I feel privileged to be able to do and see so many things but the opportunity to experience, and witness ...

Lake times
Jul 2, 2009

... what i have been up whilst you lot have been having a wonderful time doing whatever it is you are up to. Spent a few nights on Samosir island in the middle of Lake Toba, the lake was formed when a volcano went boom about 80,000 yrs back, then the island ...

Sober in Lake Toba
Aug 19, 2009 (20 photos)

... Yogyakarta and Medan.  What we didn’t realise, however, was that our visit coincided with a public holiday in Indonesia, Independence Day, which is probably the busiest weekend in Lake Toba for visitors.  On our second day, the tranquility ...

Aug 2, 2009 (45 photos)

Toba! Toba!
Nov 7, 2008 (13 photos)

... 9 hours to drive the circumfrence of it... that's how big the eruption was... it's crazy how many natural disasters indonesia has gone through... tsunamis after tsunamis, volcanoes (active ones) up and down its coasts and down this archipelago, multiple ...

Lesoy! (cheers in Batak Toba)
Dec 2, 2008 (46 photos)

... different performances of traditional Batak singing and dancing. We even bought a CD of indonesian folk songs performed by the Samosir Cottage house band who had amazingly powerful voices, especially for their age (average age of about 60!). On the ...

Danau Toba
Aug 6, 2008 (3 photos)

... 3 nights 2 whole days there, and they were as lazy as our days on Weh- eating, swimming, sleeping, playing cards and reading. Samosir used to be a big hot spot for full moon parties and raucous backpackers, but now it is all but deserted (I think Thailand ...

Paradise Island
Sep 4, 2009

... to scoff to donuts, a alice of watermelon and an omlette before the clock even strikes 9am!! 9.30 and we are on a ferry to Samosir Island in the middle of Lake Toba. As we approach the island 40 minutes later it becomes apparent that this is a world apart ...

Samorsir Island
Dec 15, 2005

Had a great time relaxing on this Island. It was hot during the day & cold in the evening. We hired a motor bike & visited a hot spar in the mountains - it was like swiming in boiling water. Our journey down to Pedang from here was a nightmare 19 hour bus ...

Lake Toba
Feb 28, 2009 (34 photos)

... perfect to waste time doing nothing. Unfortunately time was not a huge luxury for me. Sumatra is Indonesia's largest island and transport is slow and uncomfortable and my friend, Sarah, is meeting me in ...

Getting tribal
Apr 2, 2006 (13 photos)

It's been a bit since I put anything on here. Mostly since Internet, if I can find it at all, is damn expensive. Don't even think about making a phone call though...I am in the jungles of Sumatra so it's no mans land. Lake Toba was great. It's the ...

Ring of Water
Sep 1, 2006 (10 photos)

As tourist buses here are 3 times Malaysian price we were forced into a 3 legged local bus journey - and we loved every second of it!! We were offered oranges and cigarettes from friendly locals.. Leg room was a vast improvement on last journey, but ...

Tranquility
Nov 7, 2004 (1 photos)

... will by now take any foreign husband just to get out. It doesn't matter where to, just out. Out of their current lives in this country. She invites me back for dinner tomorrow, a massage and a movie. How can I resist... Next ; Stories from Indonesia

Beautiful Lake Toba
Nov 6, 2004 (2 photos)

... itself over the lip of the volcano so as to deposit us in a place called Parapat. Where boats cross the lake to reach Samosir island. I walk the little circuit through the village of Tuk Tuk and decide to stay at Tony's guesthouse. Right on the lakes edge, ...

Stories from Indonesia
Nov 8, 2004

... well to relax the 30-day restriction - to attract more free-spending visitors. Unlike Thailand, where it's quite easy to remain indefinitely, leaving Indonesia for the purpose of ' visa-runs ' is costly. There are no land borders. Next ; The road ahead

We reached a place called tuk tuk a couple ...
Feb 20, 2002

We reached a place called Tuk Tuk a couple of days ago and its a luxury, because we have a hot shower in our room!! The first hot shower we have had since leaving England. Tuk Tuk is on the island in the middle of the crater lake, and we are 900m above ...

Kuala Lumpur to Lake Toba
Oct 31, 2008

Taxi to Railway Station, Bus to Airport, Flight with Air Asia to Medan, Bus to Parapat, Boat to Lobok, Bolmus to TukTuk

Tuk-Tuk Village, Samosir Island, Danau Toba
Jan 21, 2008

a little village on a big island in a big volcanic lake in an even bigger island...

Danau (Lake) Toba
Jul 9, 2007

From Medan to Parapat by bus, then to Pulau (Island) Samosir by boat (7000Rp). Pulau Samosir and Danau Toba together make this place one of the best destinations in Asia.  The lake was formed over 30,000 years ago by a volcanic eruption and it ...

Charm and the smell of arse!
Dec 7, 2008 (3 photos)

... We headed off thinking it would be a short ride there. 45 minutes and a numb bum later we arrived at the hot springs of Samosir Island. Well what can we say...not much. Guide books and people in town highly recommended us to go and see this attraction. Our ...

Mmmm Vegetable Tacos
Aug 15, 2009 (16 photos)

... a really good happy atmosphere which helped keep us there (as well as the cheap vodka and vegetable tacos). We were here for Indonesia's Independance day, which was pretty much a beer day for us, but we joined in on everyone else's celebratory moods. It ...

Tuk-Tuk - pearl of Sumatra
Aug 18, 2009 (99 photos)

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Long bus rides to beautiful places
Dec 6, 2008 (14 photos)

The day started at 05:45 am when we packed up and left Bukit Lawang to catch an early bus to Medan and then on to Danau Toba. The bus was a rackety thing that took us three hours to get to Medan, then we had to cross Medan city to get to another bus ...