Potential touritsm Berastagi In Sumatera Utara

3. Berastagi

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Although not the most attractive town, Berastagi -- three hours from Medan -- serves as base for climbing two of Sumatra's most attractive volcanoes: Gunung Sibayak and Gunung Sinabung.

Unfortunately, most travelers get out of town quick after their day of trekking, but Berastagi is surroges, waterfalls, and natural attractions. The cool climate is refreshing to those who have been sweating around Southeast Asia for weeks.

Berastagi is a great place to visit traditional Karo houses to learn more about local customs.
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Located just two and a half hours from the sprawling urban chaos of Medan, Berastagi is a calmer escape from Indonesia's third-largest city. Two volcanoes worth trekking, hot springs, waterfalls, and a national park attract backpackers and travelers wishing to trade scorching concrete for cleaner air. Although not a particularly attractive town, Berastagi functions well as a base for exploring the surrounding attractions.

Dutch traders colonized Berastagi in the early 1900s. Although tourism has made Berastagi relatively wealthy, the surrounding Karo Highlands in North Sumatra still suffer from isolation-induced poverty.
A. batak karo typical food in Berastagi
 Batak cuisine karo particularly in Berastagi is always a hallmark for this tourist place and makes visitors will   not be bored to enjoy it . Here I will explain what foods are there in Berastagi :1.Tasak Telu is a traditional food Berastagi
    The food there is usually a time Karo traditional party and also not too many people know about the food , but now the food is already on sale in places that exist diBerastagi.Tasak rice stalls Telu Karo language means three types of cuisine . Ie poached free-range chicken with special spices , cepera or chicken broth and mixed with corn gongseng Sambah Karo sap the typical sauce of cayenne pepper / kincong , lime juice and a bit of chicken blood .
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7660254634321540711#editor/target=post;postID=4252731644484380951;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=0;src=link2. Labar ( Cimpa Corn ) , Karo Typical Cake
  Labar Jong is a traditional food typical of the Karo tribe simalem a cold temperate region with a temperature of about 16-17 Celsius in the highlands which were karo . Jong in Indonesian means " corn " . labar made ​​jong corn flour mixture and fed finely ground pepper and salt and then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed until cooked .3 . Lumpy Gravy Cipera ManukIn Tanah Karo , no chicken dishes are very popular with the name cipera . Chicken pieces - including the neck , wings , legs , heart - ampla - cooked with corn flour and fry until soft condensed . Of grain corn flour had the old corn field , in order to produce a thick sauce . Cornstarch is actually called cipera . This thick sauce flavored spicy for wearing tuba ( andaliman = Shanghai peppercorn ) , and slightly acidic due to wear Tikala acid ( from fruit Honje kecombrang ) . Besides chicken , also mixed into the mushroom sauce

B.The most interesting sights in Berastagi

1. Rafting
Day rafting can be done in the river Prickly Lau. The trip starts from the village Festive Stars and within 8 hours of arriving in the village Limang.

2. Mount Gundaling
This attraction is located in Berastagi district and Freedom, this area can be developed into the first stopover of tourists visiting the Karo district, because of the hill we can see the whole panorama Berastagi City, and Mount Sinabung Sibayak.
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3. Lake Lau Kawar
The lake has an area of ​​approximately 200 hectares flanked by overgrown landscape of tropical forests and the woody wood alongside the lake stretches an area of ​​3 hectares as the location of the camping site. For the adventure-minded travelers, from this object can perform as well as rock climbing and climbing to the summit of Mount Sinabung passes wilderness. Distance from City Berastagi into tourist attraction is 27 km and can use four-wheeled vehicles passing through several villages and agricultural land (Agro Tourism)...

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C. cultural and ethnic clothing Batak Karo

In addition to fluency in speaking Karo, the most important characteristic of a Karo identity can be known from the name of the clan in question. Karo people have five different patrilineal clans or clan, the Karo-karo, Ginting, Tarin, Sembiring, and Peranginangin. Each clan is further divided into 13 to 18 submarga, so that the whole can be found as much as 83 submarga.
The tribal name as one of the district in the name of one of the areas where they lived (Karo highlands) that Karo district. This tribe has its own language called Bahasa Karo. Clothing Karo tribal dominated by red and black and full of gold jewelry.
Karo tribe has several traditional dances, among them:
 Piso surit
 Five Ones
 Light of the Moon
Here is an example of the Batak tribe karo custom clothing that is also used as traditional dance clothes for five series