Lake Toba is an Indonesian legend that continues to be preserved.
Its beauty has also been able to attract the attention of tourists, including from abroad.
The true history of LAKE TOBA
There was a man named Toba, Falling in love with a very beautiful girl.
Day to day Toba is increasingly in love with this girl, This girl is not a people like Toba
But he is a stealth fish that can turn into a human, However, Toba really loving
About this girl. Does not diminish the slightest of his love though, He knows the girl he loves is a fish stealth
So also the girl also loves Toba.
One day, Toba also invites this girl to marry with him .. but the girl refused
Because he feels it is inappropriate to marry a normal human like Toba while he is just a stealth fish.
Toba continues to force the girl to marry him ...
Finally this girl got a toba invitation to marry with provisions ,, if we then have children,,You can not tell me that I'm a fish stealth ... toba fulfills those requirements
And they got married,,
After many years of marriage they also have children ..
Their lives are very happy with the presence of the child ..
They were blessed with a boy named Samosir.
One day, the boy told his mother again to deliver rice to his father who was working in the garden,
he went to deliver the rice. In the middle of the road, most of the rice and side dishes he ate.
When he reached the garden, the remaining rice was only a little he gave to his father. When he received it, the father was feeling very hungry because the rice was delivered late.
Therefore, the father becomes very angry when he sees the rice given to him is a remnant. His anger grew when his son confessed that he consumed most of his rice.
The father immediately hit his son saying: "Crazy boy. Truly you are a descendant of a girl from fish! "Said father.
Crying to her mother the boy said the father's mothers had angry at me, hit me, and said that I was a child of fish. Hearing the story of his son,
the mother was very sad, especially because her husband had violated his oath with the words of disdain that he said to his son.
The mother told her son to go immediately up the hill near his home. Without asking again, the boy immediately did his mother's command When his mother saw his son had reached the highest place,
he immediately headed for the river. A moment later he jumped into the river and suddenly turned into a big fish. At the same time, the river was flooded and the rain was very heavy. Sometime later, the river's water was overflowing and flooded the valley where the river flowed.
Toba could not save himself, he was drowned by water. While the hill that became the goal of his son became Samosir Island.
That is the short story of local legend about the formation of Lake Toba and Samosir Island in the middle