Danau Toba – Samsoir

 

Danau Toba – the world’s largest volcanic crater lake! We stayed on Samsoir island, in the lake. Again, the scenery here doesn’t match with my preconceived ideas of Indonesia

But the water buffalos and rooftops give it away that we’re not still in Europe

Tradional Batak houses. This is the so called Bible belt of Sumatra, and the culture and language is very different to the rest of the island. Pork and alcohol are back on the menu too!

And another – beautiful

Farming, fishing and craftwork are the main professions on Samsoir

Dry rice fields

Wet rice fields

Drying the rice

A Batak church

A traditional Batak music performance we invited ourselves to watch

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