Lake Toba, North Sumatra...

Toba is the biggest volcanic crater lake in the world, it's about 60 miles across at it's longest part and in the middle is a big mountainous island called Samosir. At 1000m above sea level, Toba has a cool foggy climate and is the site of the most recent 'super eruption' (70,000 years ago) thereby making it the most studied super eruption and scientists believe it may have nearly caused the extinction of our species by sending the entire planet into a 10 yr 'volcanic winter'..

I took a less beaten path and crossed the southern part of the lake to the island at a small port town that isn't even on the map. My horse wasn't happy when we got to Samosir to find unpaved and rocky roads, but never the less I spent a couple days pedaling around this area trying to comprehend the massive amount of fiery energy that the earth once released here many years ago..
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