Comments on: Notes on Lake Toba: The paradise lake of North Sumatra https://www.nomadicnotes.com/notes-on-lake-toba/ Travel blog featuring transport and accommodation guides Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:04:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: James Clark https://www.nomadicnotes.com/notes-on-lake-toba/#comment-388644 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:04:27 +0000 https://www.nomadicnotes.com/?p=38219#comment-388644 In reply to Kat.

Thanks! Getting the bus back to Medan after being on Toba always felt weird for me, being back in the reality of the traffic!

]]> By: Kat https://www.nomadicnotes.com/notes-on-lake-toba/#comment-388588 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:32:25 +0000 https://www.nomadicnotes.com/?p=38219#comment-388588 Cumsy thumb typing. Ignore any poor typos. I like your writing style and don’t want to misrepresent myself.

]]> By: Kat https://www.nomadicnotes.com/notes-on-lake-toba/#comment-388587 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:30:26 +0000 https://www.nomadicnotes.com/?p=38219#comment-388587 We are currently on the bus back from Toba to Medab, regretting that we have to leave that beautiful paradise. thanks for the tips (especially the one about avoiding the tempting train). We have benefited from your insight.

]]> By: James Clark https://www.nomadicnotes.com/notes-on-lake-toba/#comment-381897 Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:28:18 +0000 https://www.nomadicnotes.com/?p=38219#comment-381897 In reply to David Watts Barton.

Thanks for sharing your travel history, that was fascinating! There is something about Toba that makes people want to linger. Even on this recent trip I met people who were frequent long stayers.

I would like to find a nice balance of visitors, for the sake of the restaurants and hotels so they can have a living. I just finished another 1 month trip In Indonesia where I visited 5 islands, and I can say that it doesn’t feel like anywhere outside of Bali is going to be overrun any time soon. I think Toba will be sleepy for a while to come.

]]> By: David Watts Barton https://www.nomadicnotes.com/notes-on-lake-toba/#comment-381862 Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:30:20 +0000 https://www.nomadicnotes.com/?p=38219#comment-381862 This was a great walk down memory lane. I spent an entire month in Tuk Tuk in 1979! There were none of the “hotel” set ups there, I stayed in a cinderblock room for 35 cents US per night. Bathed in the lake. Ate mushrooms from the cow paddies. Wrote a lot of songs I’ve never recorded. The “road” around the island saw a car every few days, and it was all Bermuda grass (or the local equivalent). It was out of the way then, though very much on the overland route (from Istanbul), which I had done in ’77. I’m HAPPY to hear that it isn’t getting many visitors…one of the few places, besides Afghanistan, that I had visited back then that isn’t completely overrun. So…why spoil a good thing? Let Toba be.

]]> By: Igor https://www.nomadicnotes.com/notes-on-lake-toba/#comment-381623 Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:13:02 +0000 https://www.nomadicnotes.com/?p=38219#comment-381623 Interesting. Put on a to do list!

]]> By: Paul https://www.nomadicnotes.com/notes-on-lake-toba/#comment-381622 Thu, 13 Jun 2024 07:49:06 +0000 https://www.nomadicnotes.com/?p=38219#comment-381622 Thanks for the pics – some big changes. I spent a fair bit of time there in 1976.

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