Recently, Ministry of Tourism of Indonesia stipulated 10 leading destinations prioritized as “New Bali” for domestic and foreign tourists. One of the specified destinations is Lake Toba in North Sumatra.
Lake Toba offers many charms ranging from natural destinations, culinary, to diverse attractions. Before visiting Lake Toba, we will give you several tips that you should ask for before visiting the largest volcanic lake in this world. Here is the recommendations to ease your plan for the next holiday to lake toba!
Travel Tips to Lake Toba : How to Get There
As one of the top 10 tourist destinations, promoted within Wonderful Indonesia campaign, Lake Toba has been actively improving to facilitate visiting tourists in recent years. Initially tourists must reach the Lake Toba area by using flights to Kualanamu International Airport or Ferdinand Lumban Tobing Airport (formerly called Aek Godang) in Sibolga.
The effective operation of Silangit Airport in Siborong-borong, North Tapanuli, tourists from Jakarta can now make direct flights using several domestic airlines. Some of them are Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink, and Sriwijaya Air. Not only that, Garuda Indonesia has now opened direct flight routes from Singapore to attract foreign tourists to Lake Toba.
Arriving at Silangit Airport, you can use public transports in the form of rental taxis or public (DAMRI) buses to reach cities on the outskirts of Lake Toba such as Balige and Parapat. If you plan to go to Lake Toba from Medan and Sibolga, you can use public transport (called “angkot”) to travel (generally Colt cars) at a rate of around IDR 50,000 per person. You will travel through land for 3-4 hours.
