LAKE TOBA , SUMATERA, INDONESIA

-      Lake Toba is a volcanic lake with a 
      length of 100 kilometers and 30 kilometers wide, located in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. This lake is the largest lake in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In the middle of this lake there is a volcanic island called Samosir Island.Lake Toba since long been an important tourist destination in North Sumatra in addition to Bukit Lawang, Berastagi and Nias, attract domestic tourists or mancanegara.    

        

      LEGEND OF DANAU TOBA 

  Legend of the lake is an island located in northern Sumatra , Indonesia. story begins when a farmer named Toba . One day, toba had gone fishing in river.  His very surprised because he has got a very big fish and gold scales . The fish that can speak and appeal to toba that he did not eat it . It says she is a human named puteri . Her face is very pretty and beautiful . She claims to have been cursed by Dewata. 

       Puteri is greatly indebted to Toba as saved from divine curse . As a token of gratitude , daughter volunteered to be the wife of Toba but with a condition that Toba cannot tell to others about the origins of her.  After one year of their marriage,they has been blessed with a son who named is putera . He was a very naughty child and not listen . 

      One day , the Puteri asked her son to deliver food to his father, who worked in the fields but he did not send it. Toba very angry and he inadvertently dig up about her origins . Upon farmers say what he said , while also children and his wife vanished. Without the former , and trail . From container violation feet , suddenly a very rapid water liberalization. Farmers and rural countryside all around submerged . Boil water very high and wide to form a well. And eventually form a lake . 

      Lake was finally recognized by the name of Lake Toba. While the small island in the middle are the names Samosir Island.