Danau Toba

A long time ago, there lived an orphaned peasant boy in the northern part of

Sumatra island. The area was very dry. Syahdan, the young man's life from farming and

fishing. One day he was fishing a fish that is very beautiful. The color is golden yellow.

So holding, the fish turned into a beautiful princess. The lady is a woman who was

condemned for violating a ban. He will turn into a kind of creature who first touched it.

Therefore, the human touch, then he turned into a princess.

Fascinated by her beauty, the young farmer asked the princess to be his wife.

Applications are accepted on condition that the young man will not tell its origin from

peasant fish. The young man it undertakes these requirements. After a year, the couple

endowed a boy. He has a bad habit that is never satiated. He ate all the food.

One day the boy's eating all the food from their parents. The young man was very

annoyed said: "basic offspring of fish!" The statement itself opens the secret of such his

wife. With their promise has been breached. His wife and son disappeared in magic. The

land of their former footing gush springs. Water flowing from these springs increasingly

large. And become a vast lake. The lake now called Lake Toba