Private Collection In TB Silalahi Center Lake Toba Balige

Private collection at TB Silalahi Center

Located in a separate building, there is a modern building which turns out to be a safekeeping collection of relatives of TB Silalahi. One of them is the Al-Quran, Gusdur's father is also ..

The most exciting area in the TB Silalahi Center is actually. 

BATAK FOREST! that is, the area containing houses is batak, very cool right. when these traditional houses are rarely found unless you visit villages in remote areas of North Sumatra, you can find them here and find out the types of traditional houses.

Traditional Houses in TB Silalahi Center

The exterior is really cool ... if only every traditional house is easily found in the regions, it's a potential to become our tourism selling power. Keep on Airbnb , so tourists can easily feel living in traditional homes and being local

After being satisfied around the TB Silalahi Center Museum, we began to move towards the port to cross to Samosir, but before walking along. We had stopped at Soekarno's Exile House, which I will discuss in the next post, huh, because Soekarno's Exile House is located in Parapat, outside of Balige.

We spent 1 night a day to explore Samosir Island, which friends can read here (Spending Weekends on Samosir Island) . 

After staying overnight on Samosir Island, we continued our journey to Balige again by road trip by crossing the lake with a bridge, namely through Pangururan. The journey from Samosir Island to Balige through Pangururan takes ± 5 hours. How long is it  ??? Yes, but just calm down, along the way you can stop by the View Tower Tele, cool coffee on the hill that is the view of Lake Toba. Wonderfull day.

Long story short, when he arrived in Balige, because it was getting dark, we went straight to the hotel and went out for a while to find dinner. That night we stayed at Mutiara Balige Hotel . This hotel is actually normal, the price is IDR 650,000 per night, 1 room for 2 people. 

The advantage of this hotel is its strategic location because it is located in the center of Balige district. Around the hotel there are stalls, convenience stores , ATMs, eating places, gas stations, and most importantly the REAR DOORS ACCESS TO A SMALL ROAD LAKE TOBA!

That night we immediately took a break because the adventure in Samosir from the morning and the road trip to Balige was very tiring. The next morning, we woke up a bit early to have a delicious noodle breakfast at Pasar Balige. We leave the hotel at 07:30 and walk to Pasar Balige via the highway which is only 800 meters from our hotel (± 10 minutes on foot).

On the way, Lake toba tour package we stopped by the Revolutionary Heroes Monument, which we passed while walking to Pasar Balige. In this monument area there is a statue of our hero IN Pandjaitan and a Toba Batak traditional house which is now functioned as one of the Tourism Office offices. 

To enter the monument area is free and what is possible because free is not maintained? Ha ha ha. Because in my personal opinion, this monument is very poorly maintained, even though the potential is to become one of Balige's pride icons, especially the location that is very close to Pasar Balige.