Parapat (also called Prapat), is a tourist destination town on the shores of Lake Toba, precisely located in the district Simalungun, North Sumatra, is about 48 km from Pematangsiantar. Parapat be one important stopover
point of the Highway Traffic that connects the western part of Sumatra city of Medan to Padang.
In Parapat many studded star hotels and bungalows that housed a kind of guesthouse domestic tourists even though foreign cruise to Lake Toba.From there the ferry port Parapat own that serve to transport water to the harbor island of Samosir precisely Ajibata. If not through Parapat, then to reach Samosir Island by land transportation a person must be rounded up to the banks of Lake Toba Pangururan because that is where the island of Samosir in touch with the mainland island of Sumatra.Parapat is very famous for its beautiful lakes tobanya. The city became a famous tourist attraction in North Sumatra. In fact, in the era of the 1990s, precisely before the year 1997, the city became a favorite destination of foreign tourists, mainly from the Netherlands, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, Japan, Korea, even some that came from America. However, in 1997, turmoil makes monetary crisis of the tourists become reluctant to travel to this place.Whereas previously, the year the lake toba never won a title as the favorite destination in Indonesia, with more than 4 million tourists who came to the place in a year. But now, that position has been usurped by Bali as a favorite destination with tourists number about 2,000,000 people every year.Recently, an Indonesian private television vote in 6 cities, namely Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Denpasar, Makassar and Manado on the topic which is the most tourist areas you like in Indonesia, and the poll results indicate that there are at Lake Toba ranked second, after Bali and before the temple of Borobudur.Welcoming the government's vision and mission within the framework of Visit Indonesia Year 2008, the government Simalungun District has conducted a variety of improvements. In this event, the district Simalungun goto one event to be held in September.

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