Pantai Sorake (Sorake Beach)

Sorake Beach is located in the Botohilitano Village , Subdistrict of Teluk Dalam, South Nias Regency, Nias Island. Nias Island is located on the west Island of Sumatra.
South Nias Regency is one of the Regencies of North Sumatra Province. The provincial capital of North Sumatra is Medan, Sumatra Island.
So, South Nias Regency is one of the Regencies of North Sumatra Province who are not located on the Island of Sumatra, but on the Island of Nias.

Travel to the Island of Nias :
By using the sea transportation
From the dock in the City of Sibolga, North Sumatra Province on the Sumatra Island, with the ferry boat to the dock Gunung Sitoli on the Island of Nias, it takes 12 hours trip to the dock Gunung Sitoli.
It takes ± 4 hours by car, from Gunung Sitoli to the City of Teluk Dalam.

By using the air transportation
By using the aircraft, departing from the Polonia Airport in the City of Medan, North Sumatra Province, Sumatra Island. From Polonia Airport to Binaka Airport , Nias Island, takes 1 hour drive.
It takes ± 4 hours, from Binaka Airport to the City of Teluk Dalam. Travel is done by using the rental car or travel.

This case is interesting from the beach Sorake
Sorake Beach famous for surfing sports. Sorake Beach referred to as the second best surfing beach after Hawaii in the United States.
Every year, many foreign tourists come to Sorake Beach for surfing sports.
In Sorake Beach, foreign tourists can sunbathe on the beach, walking along a white sandy beach, swimming, relaxing.

Facilities at the Sorake Beach
Available: star hotel, hotel, lodging, home stay, restaurants, food stalls.

Best time to visit Sorake Beach
Saturday and sunday, many visited by the surrounding community. Surrounding communities come to the beach to relax, swim at the seaside, to the beach volleyball game, enjoy the beauty of the sea with a blue cloud.

When sea waves are very large in the months June to July, in this month Sorake Beach held Surfing Competition. Surfing Competition is followed by the athletes from various countries in the world. Nias Open is one of the world surfing championship in Sorake Beach.

Sorake Beach has singularities, namely:
● Having waves of high.
● Waves can be rolled intact up to the beach.
● Having 11 times the waves, high waves between 3 to 5 meters.
● Having 5 levels of wave.
● Having a characters of the length wave, the wave can be up to 200 meters away to
the beach.

Gunung Bromo (Mount Bromo)

Mount Bromo is located between the 4 Regencies, namely Pasuruan Regency, Probolinggo Regency, Lumajang Regency, Malang Regency in East Java, Java Island.
Mount Bromo is a volcano and still active. Mount Bromo is 2.392 meters in height above sea level. Mount Bromo to become tourist destinations, many tourists in the country and abroad come to Mount Bromo to see the beauty of Mount Bromo and enjoy the fresh air and cold.
Air temperature at the peak of Mount Bromo between 2 º C to 20 º C.

This case is Interesting visitors:
From the top of the mountain, visitors can see the carpet of sand 10 square kilometers which is very beautiful and spectacular. From the peak of Mount Bromo visitors can see the crater that has diameter ± 600 meters, while that from Mount Bromo visitors can see Mount Semeru is very high cut through the clouds.
While at Mount Bromo, many visitors that is waiting for see the beautiful sunrise from the east and see the sunset in the west.
Besides the beautiful view of Mount Bromo, visitors can witness the ceremony Yadnya Kasada Festival or Kasodo. The ritual ceremony Yadnya Kasada Festival is seeking blessing from the Almighty to acquire abundant harvest and far from the disaster and disease.

Visitors can pay a visit to Mount Bromo via one of the 4 way in, namely:

Entrance to the one of:
Probolinggo district - Cemorolawang Village - Mount Bromo

Entrance to the two of:
Pasuruan district - Wonokitri Village - Mount Bromo

Entrance to the three of:
Malang District - Ngadas Village - Mount Bromo

Entrance to the the four of:
Lumajang district - Burno Village - Mount Bromo

Best time to visit Mount Bromo is around June until October or around December until January.
To protect yourselves from the cold air, do not forget to bring warm clothing or a thick jacket, headcover, glove, scarf and bring food and drink as needed.

Around Mount Bromo have shelter facilities, inn, hotel, restaurants, souvenir shops and a public phone.

Taman Laut Bunaken (Bunaken Marine Park)

Bunaken Marine Park is located in North Sulawesi, the distance of approximately 8 km from the Menado. Menado city is the capital of North Sulawesi, Sulawesi Island.

Bunaken Marine Park is a very interesting place for the purpose of recreation for tourists domestic and foreign tourists. It’s a strategic location, can be easily visited by tourists. To visit the marine park, visitors can leave from the beach in the bay Manado. Visitors can use a motor boat rental to go to Bunaken Marine Park.
The best season to come to Bunaken Marine Park is in the month of May until August.

Many activities that can be done in the Bunaken Marine Park, such as snorkeling, diving, swimming, sunbathing on the beach, explore the forests around the coast.
Around Bunaken Marine Park is available homestay facilities, hotels, resorts, motor boat, the tower view, post guards, restaurant, post office, rent equipment for diving, diving instructors.

Bunaken Marine Park is the extent of 75,265 hectares and consists of five islands, namely:
Bunaken Island, Manado Tua island, Siladen Island, Mantehage Island, Naen Island. Although this marine park consists of five islands that close, only Bunaken Island is famous as the location of dives.
As the dive place, Bunaken Marine Park is one of the 10 most popular diving places in the world. Bunaken Marine Park has 20 point dive place, dive depth varies up to 1344 meters. Bunaken Island have 12 point dive place and often visited by tourists and divers.

Bunaken Marine Park is one of the beautiful marine park in the world, namely:
● has a formation of coral reefs are very beautiful and wide
● have more than 3000 species of fish that need to be protected from extinction, such as gusumi horse fish (hippocampus horse), goropa (ephinephelus spilotoceps), white oci (seriola rivoliana) and many other
● have a rare aquatic organisms such as dolphins, sea cow, dugong-dugong
● has a variety of ornamental fish is beautiful

Bunaken Marine Park have distinctive characteristics, namely:
● has a giant wall of rock that stands vertically and curve upwards
● coral walls are a source of food for the fish in the waters around Bunaken Island

To protect yourselves from the sea breeze, if a visit to the Bunaken Marine Park will need to bring warm clothing or a jacket, scarf, head cover.

Danau Toba (Toba Lake)

Toba Lake is one of the largest lake in the world and the largest lake in Indonesia with the area about 100 km x 30 km.
Toba Lake is located in North Sumatra Province, Sumatra Island. Medan is the capital of North Sumatra Province, take about 4 hours from the City of Medan to Toba Lake by using the two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive.
Toba Lake, such as a sea, which is incredible in the middle of Toba Lake there is an island, its name is Samosir Island.

Visitors can enjoy the scenery of Toba Lake which is very beautiful, the fresh air and cool and comfortable atmosphere for relaxing.
Visitors can also perform other activities such as swimming in the lake, around the lake with the motor boat, see the sunset in the west.
Every year, held the party of The People of Toba Lake. Toba Lake People’s Party is part of tourist attraction.

Travelers can visit Samosir Island by ferry from the pier in the area Ajibata, Parapat. At the time on the Island of Samosir, visitors can visit the tomb of King Sidabutar, traditional home of The Batak Toba Samosir. Other activities, visitors can enjoy the rural atmosphere with the bicycle or motorcycle, which can be rent there.

In the vicinity of Toba Lake was available villas, hotels, lodging, restaurants, cafes, souvenir shops, food stalls.

The best time to visit Toba Lake in the months April until September.