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Morroccan-styled architecture, featuring
arabesque domes and crystal chandeliers.
Functioning as both a house of prayer
for Muslims and an attraction due to
its beauty, there is a very minimal fee
imposed on visitors.
Masjid Raya Street,
about 200m from Maimun Palace
• Built by a successful entrepreneur of
the same name in the late 1800s and early
1900s, the
Tjong AfieMansion
currently
houses relics and memorabilia from the
past era of Baba and Nyonya heritage and
tradition inMedan.
J
alan Kesawan, Sulawesi
Utara, 20111, Medan, www.tjongafiemansion.
com
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•
Maimun Palace
was built by the Ke-
sultanan of Deli (Deli Sultanate) between
1887 and 1891. Featuring a modest 30
Nature
•
Lake Toba
is the largest volcanic
lake in the world. Vast and immense, the
supervolcano is large enough to cradle
the Island of Samosir in the middle.
Most lakes are formed by glaciers or
river damming; Lake Toba, however, is a
geographic outlier as it does not actually
have a river flowing in.
• 45km from Berastagi and high up
in the stunning Batak Highlands of
Lake Toba lies the singularity that is
the
Sipiso-piso Waterfall
. Translated
loosely, it means ‘like a knife’; a name
that’s rather apt, given that it is a single
waterfall that appears to cut powerfully
through the air from a point 120m high
and ending in an impressive fall into
the caldera of Lake Toba. Sometimes
a rainbow can be spotted at the base
of the waterfall.
Tangkahan Tourism In-
rooms, the palace
i s an ec l ec t i c
mash of Malayan,
Islamic, Spanish,
Indian and Italian
influences that has
drawn and capti-
vated tourists for
years with pictures
and memorabilia
from its royal days.
Brig Katamso Street, Talbot Village, District
Maimun, Medan
• Also built by the Deli Sultanate, the
Grand Mosque
is a splendorous sight of
stitution Visitor Centre, Tangkahan
Ecotourism Area, +62 812 656 7432,
tangkahan_ecotourism@yahoo.com
• One of the largest National
Parks in the world at 950,000
hectares in Northern Sumatra
and housing a 3381 metres high
mountain of the same name,
Mount Leuser National
Park
straddles the border of North
Sumatra and Aceh. Together with
two other national parks, (Kerinci
Seblat and Bukit Barisan Selatan),
it is part of a UNESCO World
Heritage Site for the category of
‘Tropical Rainforest Heritage of
Sumatra’. Best time to visit is be-
tween June to October.
Tangkahan
Tourism Institution Visitor Centre,
Tangkahan Ecotourism Area, +62
812 656 7432