Visiting Lake Toba North Sumatra, don’t forget to take the time to cross to Samosir Island, visit Huta Siallagan which is still thick with Batak culture. In this village, we will be greeted by the hospitality of the local community and a statue with Batak script as a sign of welcome to Huta Siallagan. Huta […]
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Once upon a time in the Batak area, the area around the province of North Sumatra, there lived a king who had six wives. Even though the king had six wives, none of his six wives had children. Therefore the king remarried his seventh wife. Batak folklore says that about a year later his seventh […]
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For the Batak people, the Sumatran tiger is highly respected. Once when a tiger was killed in the Jambi area, the Batak people who lived there wrapped it in ulos cloth and performed a traditional ritual to bury it. The tiger is an animal that is highly respected by the Tapanuli people. Even in villages […]