Best Sumatra Overland tours by visiting lake Toba Samosir Island and Minangkabau Land Sumatra Indonesia

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Day 01 Arrival in Medan, North sumatra
Meeting service at Polonia airport, and transfer to hotel in the city of Medan.
Day 02 Medan - Samosir Island (BLD )
Breakfast at hotel, then transfer to Samosir island with en-route stop at Peceren, a traditional Batak Karo village, and fruit market at Brastagi. Lunch will be served at local restaurant. Sipiso-piso waterfall, and king long house at Pematang Purba. Upon arrival at Parapat board the boat to cross the lake to the island of Samosir, in the center of Lake Toba. Dinner and overnight at Samosir island.
Day 03 Samosir Island ( BLD )
After breakfast depart for full day tour on boat visiting traditional and historic Batak Toba sites such as Ambarita, Simanindo, and Tomok. Lunch will be served at local restaurant. Dinner and overnight at Samosir island.
Day 04 Samosir - Parapat - Padang Sidempuan ( B L D )
After breakfast, transfer by boat to Parapat. On arrival in Parapat, proceed by AC vehicle to Padang Sidempuan or Sipirok with enroute stop at Lumban Binanga to see a typical village of the Toba batak Tribe, Porsea, market place in Balige and Tarutung, a small town located in Silindung Valley for Lunch. Overnight and dinner at hotel in Padang Sidempuan or Sipirok.
Day 05 Padang Sidempuan - Bukit Tinggi (BLD )
Breakfast at hotel, check out hotel and depart for a long drive to West sumatra. En-route stop at Monkey spot,; Panti forest reserve, Bonjol village the crossing line of equator, and arrive at Bukit Tinggi in the afternoon. Lunch will be served at a restaurant en-route. Dinner and overnight at Bukit Tinggi.
Day 06 Bukit Tinggi or Minangkabau Country ( BLD )
After breakfast at hotel, depart for Minangkabau country tour visiting Pagaruyung Palace at Batusangkar, and drive via lake Singkarak we will drive to lake Maninjau, and spend little time to enjoy the scenery. Lunch will be served en-route. Dinner and overnight at hotel in Bukit Tinggi.
Day 07 Bukit Tinggi - Padang ( BLD )
Lunch will be served at a restaurant en-route.
Breakfast, check out hotel and depart for Padang the capital of West sumatra with en-route stop at Sianok canyon, Forte de Kock, Market, and Anai waterfall. Dinner and overnight at hotel in Padang city.
Day 08 Padang - Departure ( B )
Breakfast at hotel. Free time until your transfer to airport of Tabing for your onward flight.

2 Person	Minimum Participant	Single Supplement
US$ 970.00	2 Persons	US$ 350.00
Rate is per person non commissionable and valid until 31 October 2006 Covering an overland tour both in Java or sumatrafirst impression will be the length of the distance. In total from Medan to Padang you will drive over 800 kms, passing villages, forests, cities, and places of interest. One thing during the tour on whole area of North and West sumatrait is difficult to find a natural cuisine outside hotel at local restaurant, since most restaurants serving Padang Cuisine, a very strongly flavored and hot dishes. Padang cuisine is famous for all areas of Indonesia. Inclusion : Tours and transfers in air conditioned transport as mentioned on the itinerary, English or German speaking tour guide, 6xBreakfast + 6 x Lunches + 6x Dinners, full day boat trip on lake Toba, Traditional Batak dance at Simanindo village, entrance and donation fees at the places of visits. Exclusion: Tipping and any personal expenses.

Sumatra Overland is the most popular sightseeing tour for the area of sumatra. The tour started from Medan the capital city of North sumatra Province, and ending at Padang, the capital city of West sumatra covering a distance of 700 kms which is an increadable distance of land arrangment. But along the distance one can experience different thing from people, nature, and plantation of the area. Most interested during this tour is the people and their life or land and people of Sumatra see the different from Batak Ethnic which are mostly Christian and Minangkabau ethnic which are predominently Moslem. The land of Batak has great variation of land use with large estates and industry, while West Sumatra is mostly a farmer live in a real rural areas with the beauty of ancient tradition. The regency of Karo highlands is located around 78 kilometers in south of Medan with Kabanjahe as the capital city. One of the most popular tourist destination in Karo highlands is Brastagi which is located 4.594 feet above sea level and surrounded by majestic mountains ranges with greenery rain forest. The trip to Brastagi from Medan past the Sibolangit Botanical Reserve and the scouts camping grounds before coming through Karo Highlands. From the market town Brastagi you can view clearly Mt. Sibayak 2.094 M and Mt. Sinabung 2.451M. To hike up Mt. Sibayak you can reach the peak within 3 hours magnificent view of lowlands. There is another 3-4 hours jungle trek to see the rich vegetation and wide variety of butterflies in the nearby jungle. Brastagi town well known as the marquisa or passion fruits but also famous as the are produces many kind of vegetables, fruits and flowers. There are 2 special events held annually in Brastagi, they are Pesta Buah or Fruit Festival and the Cultural Festival or Pesta Majuah-Juah. There is old colonial style hotel called Bukit Kubu with a delightful golf course, tennis courts and beautiful flower garden. In colonial era European plantersspend relaxing weekends here nowadaysand their hotel is visited regularly by European tourists. Lingga village is located about 15km from Brastagi lies on 1.200m above sea level. Lingga village is a unique Karo Batak traditional village where adat houses reputed to be 250 years old, are still well preserved and inhabited by five or six families live in each house, un separated by any partition but each with their own family stoves. Around 24 km south of Kabanjahe toward Lake toward Lake Toba, you can find beautiful water fall called Sepiso-piso waterfall. Falling in to a gorge from a height of 360 feet before in before flowing in to lake Toba. This is the best place to view Lake Toba.

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The island of Sumatra is the longest island of Indonesia, more then 2000 kms from the north tip to the southern tip. The island is known to have second biggest tropical forest after Kalimantan, and the only habitat of Asian tiger until today. The rain forest is along the slope of bukit Barisan or chain of mountain along the island. The habitat of the tiger is from west Sumatra up to the area of Lampung in south Sumatra, while the habitat of orangutans is on Leuser National park north sumatra, bordering with Aceh Province. Sumatra with some smaller islands on the west and east coasts records some ethnic groups such as the Aceh, the Batak, the Nias, the Mentawai, and the forest people of Kubu. North Sumatra province, as the home of Batak people is one of the most interesting country with the existence of beautiful lake Toba, Orangutans and the culture of Batak themselves who continues their ancestors tradition, although they are now mostly Christian. Lake Toba with Samosir island in it which is as big as Singapore is one of the nature's oddity that on such a narrow land was ever a super volcanic eruption which was happened 70,000 years ago.

West Sumatra, known as the home of Minagkabau people was a Hindu kingdom around 13 to 14th century and have a close relation with Pajajaran kingdom in west Java. It is not clear up to now if Sumatra under Sriwijaya kingdom was controlling Pajajaran or Majapahit of Java controlled Sriwijaya by ordering Pajakaran to supervise Sriwijaya. Proof of Sriwijaya ever control over west Java is presence in the present region of Banten. As a result of ever controlled by Hindu kingdom west Sumatra has unique culture, especially the art and historical places. Although in basic concept of house architecture for example almost the same as Batak, but the Minangkabau house which is called Rumah Gadang has beautiful carving and decoration. The historic monument of king Adidyavarman in Pagaruyung, the museum of art are of traditional interests beside nature beauties such as Ngarai Sianok or Sianok canyon just on the west side of Bukit Tinggi city the capital of Minangkabau land. Bukit Tinggi city itself preserves the heritages from Dutch colonial era, and Japanese occupation such as Gua Jepang or under soil resistance, just on the west side of the city. In the field of social and living art Minangkabau has not much to offer as the people already Moslem.