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Lounging by the lake & smiling til our jaws ache!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Heaven on earth!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
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 ...
Lazing at the lake
... making us stronger. We arrived at Lake Toba just after sunset and needless to say headed straight to the bar for a long awaited drink! Lake Toba is a huge, volcanic crater lake, South East Asia's biggest and that's a fact. Just to give you an idea of ...
to Lake Toba
... of architecture and culture. Now they are mostly Christians after the Dutch missionaries arrived here). Other highlights here in Lake Toba include seeing a live music performance of traditional Batak music, Indonesian folk music, and traditional Batak ...
The Hippie Trail continues...
... Etter til slutt å ha funnet en minibuss som ikke prøvde å snyte oss med prisen, kom vi oss til slutt avgårde mot Parapat og Lake Toba, fem timer etter planen. Da vi ankom Parapat, byen hvor man tar ferje fra for å komme seg til Tuk tuk på Lake Toba, ...
Easy living
Lake Toba and Samosir Island
This is my 4th times journey on Lake Toba (Indonesian people usual call it Danau Toba). Every time I went to Lake Toba and also to Samosir Island, I always so enjoy it. In this journey I had to go with my best friend and her mom. We flight from Banda ...
Lake Toba & The Great Motorbike Adventure
... of which was that the bus that we had paid for to take us to Lake Toba had decided that it wasn't going to take us to lake Toba afterall. Instead they arranged for a minivan to drive us the rest of the way. Some 18 hours after we had left Dumai we ...
Motorcylcling Around Lake Toba
... friends Marc and Liana, rented motorcylcles and drove to a hotspring two hundred kilometers away. Most of the drive is on a road right by the beach of Lake Toba. We passed several villages and dodged several water buffalo on the road. It was ...
Lake of Fire
... the last ferry which was about to depart, in where met the girls who had just arrived 30 mins before looking all fresh... bitches! Lake Toba is formed by what was the largest recorded volcanic eruption, in fact a super-volcano. Its one big bad boy which ...
Now this is what we came for
... tire and switch out the spare that we had to put on earlier. We were then on the road for another 5 hours to Danau (Lake) Toba. Lake Toba is such a wonderful place. It's a HUGE lake with a very large island right in the middle of it. The lake was ...
Toba's Tourist Slump
Sitting out on the balcony of my Batak-style bungalow, gazing out on the waters of Lake Toba, enjoying a lazy morning. A group of Chinese tourists are laughing and fooling around in inner tubes at the water's edge, and on the small stretch of beach a ...
Heaven and Hell
... of the way around, except for where locals cut a pass into the western corner to allow more light to come in during the sunset. Lake Toba is the largest freshwater lake in SE Asia. You actually stay on an island that sits at the center of Lake Toba. ...
East Meets West
... to multiply in the darkness of the country. They were so plentiful that they ran in a thick, milky stream over the glistening lake. "Bintang bintang," he said. "Many stars." No one drinks alone here, and it wasn't long before a local Batak ...
Lake Toba
... seen. The beautiful green jungle like mountains surrounded the lake. We stayed on Samosir, which is an "island/peninsula" in which Lake Toba surrounds. It took me a long time to get there, as I left around 6am and arrived at the hotel on ...
The Tourist Hunters
... by highly pleasant state of relaxation, hanging out with Duan, my Bataknese friend, playing pool and ping pong, swimming in Toba's pure volcanic waters, and hanging out in the markets of Parapat, where Duan hunts tourists with Dylan, Harry, Jo Jo, Magic ...
Let's Dance
... come. Duan and Diana are Toba Batak, one of the five main Batak tribes in Sumatra, and they speak both bahasa Indonesia and Toba Batak; each tribe has its own distinct language. Duan speaks English quite well from his years as a surfers' guide in ...
It's been only 2 days since our last climb ...
... flooded forming the lake. About 75,000 years ago there was another eruption which created a large island in the centre of the lake. The surrounding area is beautiful. We saw a waterfall far in the distance so we decided to reach it by following a ...
Lake Toba - Chill out time
... rice and were handed fresh mangos to eat on our journey. Unfortunately, we also had our first 'accident' of the flip-flop tour at Lake Toba; the idea was to hire some mopeds to go to the hot springs about 20 km away. D's attempt was good but shakey ...
Batak!
... place they were staying at.We decided to stay in one of the more expensive places.... which was still really cheap and treat ourselves. Lake toba is the largest volcanic lake in the world, with an island inside an island. pretty cool. The place we stayed ...
pulau samosir, viviendo en un supervolcan
Desde bukittinggi un viaje horrible en bus hasta parapat, en la orilla de lake toba, que rodea a pulau samosir.Salimos a las 15 y llegamos a parapat a las 7 de la mañana, rodeados de irrespetuosos, hostiles y guarros indonesios. Pulau samosir es una ...
Jungle Trek Jungle Trek and Happy Birthday Daz
... much i don't know whether would have rafted in it. The next day and we were off - back to Medan and on our way to Lake Toba, a island the size of Singapore in the middle of Asia's largest Lake, a very strange sight! We ended up staying here over a week ...
Adventure continues
... a book in my hammock and enjoying the beauty of the green. The day that N starts feeling better we decide to go to Lake Toba. Unfortunately Bukit Lawang doesn’t want us to leave- as we’re trying to rush through our breakfast, our hotel ...
Claires gone so Toba here we come!
Ok, no news here we spent a week and relaxed out of the tangled hair of ...
I wanna be your dog
Terveiset kaikille koiran omistajille! Tanaan tuli vihdoin ajankohta sopivaksi koiranlihan maistelulle. Tilattiin sapuskat eilen ja testailtiin juuri asken..vielakin vahan kadet tarisee, mutta yksi elaman tavoittesta taas saavutettu. Valitettavasti emme ...
This isnt my house not my home but it's ok
... 'imiä. On koiria, kissoja, hevosia, kukkoja ja jäniksiä. Ja iltasin voi bongailla lepakkoja. Suosittelisinkin Lake Tobaa kaikille joille arki meinaa kaatua niskaan. Täällä sielu lepää, eikä tartte murehtia oikeastaan mistään. ...
S11-S14
Did: Rented a scooter and rode around the island and through its interior. The lakeside road is in very good condition. On the interior, roads become stony tracks, incredibly bumpy and I convinced myself the throttle and back wheel ...
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