SIMALUNGUN

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The Simalungun or Timur ('Eastern") Batak occupy the highlands between Lake Toba and the east coast, today a key plantation region with huge estates producing palm oil, rubber, cacao, tea. The area is traversed by a 100 km stretch of the Trans-Sumatera highway leading up to prapat via Pematang Siantar.

Medan to Tebing Tinggi

The highway east of Medan through the Deli Serdang coastal area is broad and fast, passing through endless groves of rubber trees and oil palms. Those wishing to tour the estates can make arrangements at the Tourist Information Office on Jl. A. Yani in Medan.

Cermin Beach

A turn off at Perbaungan leads north to Pantai Cermin ( Mirror Beach ), a favorite local holiday and weekend picnic spot, 45 km from Medan. Here a casuarina-lined beaches for swimming and fishing, though incomparable to those along the west coast. About 76 km from Medan you enter the large town of Tebing Tinggi, the east coast rail junction where lines link Pematang Siantar with Medan and Rantau Prapat further to the south.

 

Pematang Siantar

Pematang Siantar, North Sumatera's second largest city, is the administrative and commercial hub of the Simalungun plantation area. Colonial houses can be seen in the centre of the urban area, and at 400 m above sea level the climate is cooler than on the coast.

The Simalungun Museum on jl. Ahmad Yani has an interesting collection of pustaha laklak, the bark books in Indic batak script used by datuk magicians to record their sacred formulae. It also has notable examples of stone pangulubalang or Simalungun guardian images colected during the 1930s.

 

 

Deliserdang 

Mid Tapanuli 

North Tapanuli

South Tapanuli

Asahan

Tobasa

Dairi 

Karo

Labuhanbatu

Mandailing Natal

Simalungun

Langkat

Nias

 

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