Sumatra Attractions

Lake Singkarak

Advantages: It is easy to reach Singkarak Lake.
Disadvantages: None

...bilih(small fried fish). In Singkarak lake you can also sail to go around the lake. It is about Rp 10000 per hour. The water of the lake is pure and cold. It is nice if you come there on tuesday or Sunday afternoon, as alot of food sellers come there. If you drop in Solok town, you can buy a lot of fruits and padang spicy meal, hmm, very delicious. ...

KotoGuci 11.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Lake Singkarak, Bukittinggi, Sumatra

Mount Merapi in West Sumatra

Advantages: good experience for you
Disadvantages: Active Volcanoes but not erupt in near days

This if the good mount that bukittinggi have. that you can see sunrise from here. And there you can find "Puncak Merpati" there. but it was a risk to go there. But you have a good view to volcanos lava in the mountain stomach, from there. and you can see full Bukittinggi city from up there. And you can see lake singkarak too from here. From up here yu can see Mount Singgalang and Mount Sago too. But if you go up to mount Merapi you better go up in ...

d-mon 07.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Mount Merapi (Gunung Merapi), Bukittinggi, Sumatra

Enjoying beutiful place in Sumatra

Advantages: Beautiful place, friendly people
Disadvantages: Take 3-4 hours from Medan

Lake toba is one of the biggest lake in Sumatra island and in Indonesia, too. Lake Toba is about 285 km from Medan City, a capital of North Sumatra. Lake Toba is about 100 km long and about 30 km wide. Lake Toba is also called Parapat by a people of North Sumatra. From Jakarta, we needed a trip about 2.5 hours by plane, whereas from Medan to reach the lake Toba we needed 3-4 hours trip by car. To go to location of lake, we drive a car or a bus ...
...hours until we arrive to lake Toba. . In a middle of lake, there is an island called Samosir island. To reach a samosir, we might use boat and there is also bigger ship which transports cars and busses sailing to Samosir. A cost to sail to Samosir is only Rp 25.000. When we are in Medan, we feel so hot, not like on Toba, cause in Toba we feel so cool. If you want to have amazing view of Lake Toba, I'd suggest you to drive on the top of the hill, ...

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Review of Lake Toba, Sumatra

Lake Singkarak

Advantages: You can paragliding here
Disadvantages: carreful with the local

Lake singkarak is the one of four lake in west sumatra. that not include lake kerinci that half is at west sumatra region and the other half is in jambi region. Lake Singkarak is in the side ways to Solok and the way to "Lintas Sumatra". That connect all province in Sumatra. So from Aceh to Lampung is connected by this road. And the lake have a beautiful water that you can swim here. and you can paragliding from the hill that sorrounding this lake. ...

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Review of Lake Singkarak, Bukittinggi, Sumatra