Explore Lake Toba to discover traditional Batak villages with distinctive concave-roofed houses, the flamboyant tombs
of the Sidabutar Kings, even execution sites!
Spend half a day slowly snaking your way north and enjoy the extraordinary views, the bucolic landscape, the brilliant Piso Piso Waterfall(the highest in Indonesia), roadside markets,
and some fine Batak villages.
Meuraxa in Sekitar Suku Melaju, Batak, Atjeh, dan Keradjaan Deli(1956)
writes that in 1669 the territory of the Sultanate of Deli was captured by the Sultanate of Siak Sri Inderapura from the Sultanate of Aceh Darussalam.