Activities

Explore Batak culture & Lake Toba

There's a whole island waiting beyond our café and guesthouse. Ride through the villages, chase waterfalls in the highlands, cook with a Batak family, or grind your own sambal with our kitchen team — we'll arrange it all for you.

Water buffalo grazing on a lakeside meadow at Lake Toba

Becak Tour

ca. 3–4 hours

What's included

Tuktuk Timbul View
Stone Chairs of Siallagan
Batak Museum Simanindo
Tomok Market & Sigale-Gale
Old Tomb of King Sidabutar

IDR 650.000per tour

Prices exclude entrance fees and lunch

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Guests and the farmer's family in front of a traditional Batak Rumah Bolon

Guests learning about coffee trees with Lake Toba and the hills behind

A guest grinding freshly picked coffee cherries with the farmer

Guests meeting a water buffalo in a freshly harvested rice field

Guests chatting with villagers under a huge banyan tree

Guests grinding sambal in stone mortars with the Ibu of the house

Guests helping with the fish barbecue over an open fire

Batak-style lunch of grilled fish, rice, tofu and sambal served on a mat

Authentic Sumatra Tour

ca. 5–6 hours

Step off the tourist path and meet a local Batak coffee & vegetable farmer and his family in their traditional Batak house (Rumah Bolon). Learn how the Batak still live today, walk the scenic farmland, meet the water buffalo — then cook a famous fish BBQ and typical Sumatran sambal with the Ibu (Mama) of the house, and eat together on the floor, Batak-style. Vegetarian options available.

What's included