Samosir Ranches - Reviews and Rates

We had a rough few days at Tom and Charlie's with both of us coming down with a horrific stomach bug. Luckily the worst was over within 24hours but still it was nice to have some home commforts whilst they did trips to the pharmacy for us, bless them.

Our initial plan was to spend just 3 or 4 days on lake Toba. It's such a relaxing place,...

Up and out early, we find ourselves strolling round the weekly market where I maage 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 ...

Lake Toba is a lake and also a super volcano measuring 100 kilometres long and 30 kilometres wide and 505 metres (1,666 ft) at its deepest point. It is the largest volcanic lake in the world and is the site of a 75,000-year-old super volcanic eruption, the largest in the last 25 million years. It is suggested that eruption reduced the worlds po...

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

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 isla formada tras la explosion de un supervolcan (palabra tecnica para describirlo) hace muuuchos...

I may not have much of a grasp on the language of Indonesia yet, but last night I overcame it with a language more universal: I went dancing with Duan, who works at Samosir Cottage, and Diana, a girl from a nearby village. We started out at Brando's Blues Bar, the local watering hole, where Duan bought the first round of Bingtangs and taught me ...

From his ever-ready grin and willingness to break into a Bob Marley song at any moment, you would never know that Felix Sohari suffers the scars of a catastrophe that killed 400 people, including his best friend and a child he tried in vain to save. Felix told his story in the most peaceful setting imaginable, settled amid pillows in a gazebo ov...

Yesterday was a definite highlight of the trip thusfar. In the morning I rented a motorcycle and spent the day exploring the mountains which surround the volcanic lake of Lake Toba. Its the largest lake in Southeast Asia and was created when a volcano erupted and the collapsed on itself. Supposedly the eruption made that of Krakatoa look like a ...

Aloita! No, ze nekaj casa je od kar sva se zadnjic javila, bo pa zato sedaj malo vec napisanega. V ponedeljek smo se potem odpravili iz Bukkitingija v Padang (najprej sva bila presencena, ker je bil promet veliko bolj umirjen kot na severu sumatre)in nato iz Padanga z ladjo do Muare Siberut na otoku Siberut, ki je eden izmed otokov v otocju Ment...