Nature Tourism Lake Toba

Beautiful scenery from the waters of Lake Toba in the morning dawn and drowned. Many point view of Lake Toba which is very interesting because that has not enjoyed priwisata management and the environment that are less good.

Lake Toba is a lake vulkanik of 100km x 30km in North Sumatra, South Sumatra, Indonesia. In the middle there is an island called Pulau Samosir vulkanik.
Lake Toba long since become a key tourist destination in North Sumatra, in addition to Bukit Lawang and Nias, attract domestic and foreign tourists.
Estimated to Lake Toba explosion occurred at around 73000-75000 years ago and is bursting supervolcano (super volcano), which is new. Bill Rose and Craig Chesner from Michigan Technological University estimate that the materials vulkanik a mountain dimuntahkan as 2800km3, 800km3 with ignimbrit rock and 2000km3 gray vulkanik estimated tertiup wind to the west for 2 sunday.

This incident caused the death of the bulk and in some species also followed by extinction. According to some DNA evidence, this eruption also menyusutkan amount up to about thousands of men only.

After the eruption, the kaldera form which is then filled by water and has become now known as Lake Toba. Pressure up by magma that has not come out cause the emergence of Samosir Island.