Lake · North Sumatra
Lake Toba
Danau Toba
Lake Toba (Danau Toba) is the volcanic caldera lake in the Bukit Barisan highlands of North Sumatra, with Samosir Island in its middle.
Why go
This record is the lake, not Samosir Island, the Toba Caldera geopark designation or the Lake Toba tourism authority. The North Sumatra provincial government's tourism page describes it as a volcanic lake in the Bukit Barisan mountains at about 900 metres above sea level, thought to have formed in an eruption of the Toba supervolcano about 74,000 years ago, and calls it one of the province's tourism icons. The same page says Samosir Island lies in the middle of the lake, with old stone tombs and villages of traditional Batak Toba houses. XTOUR states nothing about ferries, boats or which shore town to stay in.
Near Lake Toba
Waterfall
Sipiso-piso Waterfall
Sipiso-piso is a waterfall on the side of the Lake Toba caldera in Tongging village, Merek district, Karo Regency, North Sumatra.
49 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Museum
North Sumatra Museum
The North Sumatra Museum (Museum Sumatera Utara) is a museum on Jalan HM Joni in the Medan Kota district of Medan, North Sumatra.
102 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Graha Maria Annai Velangkanni
Graha Maria Annai Velangkanni is a Catholic Marian shrine church in Indo-Mughal style in Tanjung Selamat, on the outskirts of Medan, North Sumatra.
102 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Mosque
Great Mosque of Medan
The Great Mosque of Medan (Masjid Raya Al Mashun) is a grand mosque in the Medan Kota district of Medan, North Sumatra.
103 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ