The Lake Toba

The Toba lake was a volcanic lake with the long measurement 100 kilometre and wide 30 kilometre in North Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia. In the middle of this lake was gotten a volcanic island was named the Samosir Island. The Toba lake had since long before become the area of the aim of the important tour in North Sumatra apart from the Lawang Hill and Nias, attracted domestic tourists and mancanegara.

Estimated the Toba Lake happened during the explosion around 73,000-75,000 last year and was the eruption supervolcano (the volcano super) that was newest. Bill Rose and Craig Chesner from Michigan Technological University estimated that volcanic materials that were spewed out the mountain totalling 2800km3, with 800km3 the rock ignimbrit and 2000km3 volcanic ash that was estimated was blown the wind to the west for 2 weeks. Volcanic dust that was blown the wind spread to half earths, from China as far as South Africa. His eruption happened for 1 week and his dust throw reached 10 KM on sea level.

This incident caused the mass death and to several species also was followed by the extinction. According to some DNA proof, this eruption also menyusutkan the amount of humankind until approximately 60% from the number of populations of earth humankind at that time that is approximately 60 million humans. The same eruption took part in causing the occurrence of the ice time, although the experts were still debating the matter.

After this eruption, was formed the caldera that afterwards was filled by water and to that now is known as the Toba Lake. The pressure above by magma that did not yet go out caused the Samosir Island emergence.

Sumatera Utara

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Sumatera Utara

North Sumatra had various tourist attractions that ought to be visited by the tourists who visited to the North Sumatran area, and many matters that could be enjoyed by the local tourists and tourists who came from overseas, and in the year beforehand North Sumatra prepared mengahadapi the ASEAN free trade area (AFTA) last 2003, by relying on all the available potentials in North Sumatra, including the Sector of Pariwisatanya. Because of that we must be sure that North Sumatra could match Bali and could be relied on to the international stage, because the North Sumatran location was adjacent to three countries, namely Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia

Remained that was felt uptil now in relation to the insignificance of means, the infrastructure of the supporter and his human resources. Could be seen by us that in the Airport of Polonia Medan, Belawan the port that was the door Gate to the entry of the foreign tourists, was not closed the possibility asked for the tourists who wanted to visit to North Sumatra so big, but, his promotion strategy was impressed still not all that, so as sometimes sometimes often made tourists lose the passion to come to North Sumatra.

The place - the place that could in visited:

- The Lake Toba

- Berastagi

- Prapat

- Tomok

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