Toba Lake, North Sumatera

Toba Lake is a famous tourism place in North Sumatera, Indonesia. It length about 100 km and 30 km width, at the middle of lake there is a beautiful island namely Samosir Island. Toba Island has become tourism object from Holland colonialism era.

According to the scientist it is created by huge explosion about 73000-75000 years ago and well known as the newest super volcano explosion. The volcano explosion make about 2800 km2 material out from the earth and causing ash spread till China and Africa. Because of that explosion made 60% death in the world more over it is claimed make ice era in the world at time although this information still controversial.

Toba Lake is very beautiful place with the panorama at around. It is offers nurturing environment for fish such as Tilapia mossambica, Chana gachua, etc…Various flora organism such as phytoplankton and some fauna likes zooplankton and benthos. Toba Lake has become livelihood place for the villagers there. They take a fish from the lake and doing daily activity by using Toba’s water. So it is not strange if you see there some villagers take a bath and clean their cloths in the lake.

The villager’s activity has made pollutant in the Toba’s water although it is not lack the beautiful panorama there. I give you this information in order to the visitors and tourist who want to go there keep clean this place caused the pollutant which happened in Toba Lake not only made by the Villagers but it is contributed by the visitors too. Some visitors waste their rubbish in anyplace.

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