White Crater Dolok High King, The Beautiful Hot Snow In North Sumatra
North Sumatra has a lot of natural charm that is not known by many people. One of them is the White Crater High King is located in the village of Dolok High King, District Glare Kahean Simalungun, North Sumatra. This exotic tourist places not known by Indonesian people, because it is in the middle of dense forest area, if in West Java have Ciwidey White Crater, in northern Sumatra has the attraction White Crater High King is more beautiful than the White crater Ciwidey in West Java.
These attractions are in the middle of the forest area with dense trees and tall. This area is a nature reserve covering an area of 176 hectares, while the area of the crater up to 4 hectares. Being in the middle of the woods and forced to walk through a fairly difficult, visitors will be amazed when looking at the limestone hills and heat flow whose beauty resembled snow.
Around Kawah Putih High King, there are few places that can be visited. Limestone hills through which hot water flow makes this area unique and attractive to look at and immortalized. Additionally there is a flow of hot water over rocks covered with green moss. like a green carpet whitish.
At the top of the crater, there is a natural pool is not so great with hot water bubbles from the bottom of the pool. Because of the heat and the fragility of the pool water, visitors are prohibited from bathing in the natural pool. The flow of hot water through the bush to dry and empties into a lake turquoise.
Hot springs that reach temperatures of around 90 degrees centigrade, the White Crater High King came from a small hill in the area, so that the hot water was able to boil an egg to mature. The flow of hot water flowing between limestone rocks, this incident made the rock becomes white as snow. Most people call it the Hot Snow.
This region is a lowland tropical rain forest is lush and green with diverse types of flora. Potential tumbuhan that grows in this region is dominated by Meranti Flowers (Shorea parfivolia), Walnut (Cannarium sp.), Malu Tua (Tristia sp.) For the types of trees and shrubs consists of rattan (Calamus sp.), Orchid (Bulbophylum sp. ), Pouch Semar (Nepenthes sp.), and Pandan (Pandanus, sp.).
Potential fauna based on research last year in 1999, there were more than 45 species of wild animals, which are already protected, namely the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris Sumatra), wild boar, hare, deer, mountain goats, Siamang, various types of monkeys and reptiles, and also Honey Bear. However fauna most often and most easily found is the hornbill.
locations
Kawah Putih High King is located in the village of Dolok High King, District Glare Kahean, which was at the end corners of Simalungun, North Sumatra.
Access
There are three routes that can be served until the region is passed by for the White Crater High King
1. Terrain-Lubukpakam-Galang-Dolok King High
2. Masihul-Nagori Dolok-Dolok High King
3. Terrain-Lubukpakam-Galang-Bangun Purba-Dolok High King
All have the same mileage is 80-90 km premises within 3-4 hours from Medan.
Accommodation
Because the place is remote and far away from the city, there are no inns or hotels in the area .and when would bring their own lunches, since rare food vendors at these attractions.
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