SM-RT-MDN-3A
Tour Code :
SM-RT-MDN-3A
Place Visit :
Medan City, The Great Mosque (optional), Tjong A Fie Mansion, Sipiso-piso waterfall, Berastagi hot spring, Lake Toba
Day 1: Arrival
Arrival to Kualanamu International Airport, airport pick up and hotel transfer, check-in hotel in Medan
Day 2: Medan City Tour
Breakfast at hotel, The Great Mosque (optional), this Mosque was built in 1906. At the begining the mosque was a part of the Maimun palace complex. Its architectural style combines Middle Eastern, Indian and Spanish elements. The mosque has an octagonal shape and has wings to the south, east, north and west; visit Tjong A Fie Mansion, this two-story mansion was constructed in Chinese-European-Art Deco style, and was completed in 1900; 3-hr drive and check in hotel at Berastagi; hot water springs at Sibayak Village
Day 3: Sipiso-piso waterfall, Toba Lake
Breakfast at hotel; Sipiso-piso waterfall, a plunge waterfall formed by a small underground river of the Karo plateau that hurls itself from a cave in the side of the lake Toba caldera some 120 m down to lake level. This is the highest waterfall in Indonesia and well-known tourist attraction; Lake Toba is a large natural lake occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is about 100 km long, 30 km wide, and up to 500 m deep, and located at 900 m elevation. This is the largest lake in Indonesia and also the largest volcanic lake in the world. Lake Toba is the site of a massive supervolcanic eruption estimated occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago, representing a climate-changing event. It is the largest known explosive eruption on Earth in the last 25 million years. According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences for human populations; it killed most humans living at that time and is believed to have created a population bottleneck in central east Africa and India, which affects the genetic make up of the human worldwide population to the present. It has been accepted that the eruption of Toba led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decrease in temperature between 3-5 °C up to 15 °C in higher latitudes; back to Medan, check in hotel
Day 4: Departure
Breakfast at hotel, hotel pick up and airport transfer, Departure