First full day on Lake Toba

Resting in bed after a very satisfying first full day on some Samosir Island in the middle of lake Toba on the island of Sumatra Indonesia. My darling and I went for early morning walk to find try to find some food for breakfast since we are staying at home exchange which is bare Bones. After finding a very lovely lady who made us breakfast and so there's some basics we return and then late in the afternoon went for a kayak right in the lake. Several hours later we walked over to the town of and found some very beautiful hotel grounds that provides some very instagrammable photos. Had dinner there and just returned full and happy. Tomorrow we're going to do a full tour of the album which happens to be 100 cm long which means it's about 15 km longer than Bali and approximately the same length and size as entire nation of Singapore. An added benefit is that tourism has not returned here yet and we feel very sorry for the locals or struggling but yet they seem to be enjoying their Christmas as most are Christian here. One feature that we noticed right off the bat is that the town of tutuk and his surrounding areas are amongst the cleanest areas of Indonesia that I've ever seen. People take pride and keeping the roads and their yards clean.Read more