Land of Bakara

Land of Bakara (Image, 2010)

There is a small village, about 2.400 hectare wide, laid in the deep rural valley, surrounded by Bukit Barisan Mountain in North Sumatera, Indonesia. Located at the lake side of  Lake Toba in the South East, one of the biggest lake in the world. This land is rich of of spring water, waterfalls, and rivers.  A land of history, land of the Batak Toba ethnic, land of isolated traditions and culture, named Tano Bakara (Land of Bakara).


There are two big rivers flow through the land. First, the biggest one is Aek Silang, starts from waterfall Batubatu, in Desa Hutaraja. This river colour looks red, but the other river Aek Simangira looks white. Aek Simangira originates from two springs. The two rivers to be one river and flows 0.7 kilometres to the Lake Toba.

Bakara is the land of kingdom centre of Sisingamangaraja Kings (I-XI), the Batak's Kingdoms until 1907.