Travel Tips to Lake Toba : Shop and Food
Your trip is less complete if you haven’t bought souvenirs and tasted food. Along the road from Tomok Port to Raja Sidauruk’s house, you can find many souvenir shops. Ranging from clothing, bags, headbands, key chains and wooden crafts, to weaving ulos – Batak fabrics you can buy. Not far from the handicraft center, you can go to a restaurant that sells dishes from processed fish with a spice aroma.
You can also find the same thing near the Market and Port of Ajibata. There are dozens of restaurants offering various types of rice and side dishes, ranging from carp arsik, gomak noodles, grilled fish, jerky, to saksang. For Muslim tourists, it’s a good idea to choose a food stall that has written “halal” because there are many menus such as pork and dogs.
Travel Tips to Lake Toba : Behave During Your Stay
Behind the process of forming Lake Toba, there is a story about a young man who scolded his son and violated his wife’s promise. The child cries when he knows the real identity of his mother who is a fish. This legend continues to be inherited until now, even the name of the child Samosir, was enshrined as the name of the island in the middle of Lake Toba.
As a tourist area that is closely associated with legends in the community, it’s good for every visitor to respect the local people’s beliefs and stories and not to say carelessly. Because, not a few tourists who have certain mystical experiences when visiting Samosir Island and Lake Toba when not behaving well.
