Taman Eden 100 - 15 minutes drive from Prapat Danau Toba

Visiting Prapat Danau Toba (Toba lake) is a must for Calvin.
Took around 45minutes - 1hour from Pematang Siantar.
A short driving time compare to Jakarta, but what mattet most will Calvin brave enough to drive there with a manual car. Erhmm the road near Toba lake was no joke, the twist and turn.

We headed there on Wednesday, start from 11am and arrived at 12am.
The next story in Danau Toba will be covered here.

Because of the road, Calvin like hesistant when I aksed him to visit Taman Eden 100. He afraid that the road might worse than before.
While We have declined our planned to Samosir and come on that's only 15minutes drive from Prapat, what a short distance, and we never know when we will back there, therefore I keep begging him to visit there.
I understand it and I search and googling about the place and found out the road there much better, no heavy turn or twist :p.

Yeay,he being convinced by my word, hehehe.

Taking a lunch and wrap the noddle we headed to Taman Eden 100.
Opened your eyes along the road is a must!!!!
Why? Don't left the beautiful scenery behind.

There was a place where you can see the mountain, the lake, the green paddy field, with a beautiful sky. I think to stop for taking a picture  but seem it's hard to cross the road then I planned to done it later. Sigh, no picture cause it was rain when we back from Taman Eden.

Honestly I really enjoy our trip while on the road, like I wash my eyes with all this beautiful green scenery, a tall tree along the road as you in jungle. May be I'm sick of seeing building across the road in Jakarta, now I could laid back and rest for a while. A refreshing moment.

After 15minutes drive, we arrived.
Don't hesistant to asked people whether we still on track or has missed it.
The sign was on you left side but not too big and in black colour.

Ticket price is really affordable and actually you could gave more if you want.

Beside the Entrance House

We decide to go to the spring water fall, around 10minutes walk. Look at the Map.

On the first sign, instead turn to the right for waterfall, we turn to the left, and we got to see the berries farm. There was rabbit and chicken too :p.
We think to have a strawberry there, but rainy season made it not growing well.

Then we walk around, played with the rabbit. Oh there few male student there, and they start to took something from the tree and eat it.
Ehhhh, that look like berries, a black one. And we took then eat it, sour.
Then we saw they move to other places and took another berries, ehhhh that red one, a raspberry wuhuuu..
But to pick raspberry need an extra care of your self, alot of thorn on the branch and the moquito awww.... I think I scartch my hand n my leg many times. Then the farmer help us to pick it especially the one on the middle.
We paid for the raspberry 3 small boxes around 25.000IDR. But actually we got more as we ate from the tree directly.

Then we walked again and yipiii... a water fall wait for us.
The water is so cold and feeling so fresh.
We played around one hour, enjoying the water, taking a picture, and also eating the berries. To make it more delicious, we put it on the water and we got a cold berries :p.
Josh is really happy and my mom also. And of course Calvin didn't regreat we made it here.

 

raspberry

On the way there and back we can saw a lot of fruit tree. And I read somewhere that we can own the tree (our name was put on the tree) if we made a donation.

When we arrived at the parking lot, a small rain start to fall. Kiddo were hungry and eat the noddle.
Please visit with family, team or group or at least three persons.
Please keep the trash with you. There were many basket bin also.
Oh, if we want to visit the 7layers waterfall need a 2 hours walk or other places inside, then we need a guide, need to inform on the front desk.

way back

We ended our trip with rain ^^.
And starting that day every night, the city showered with rain. We might be lucky enough to have a bright day during our visit to Danau Toba - Taman Eden.

For reading more about Taman Eden, the owner, more inside, read here.
What I want to say our nation, Indonesia is very blessed with the natural beauty and resource. By reading the story of Taman Eden, we know it's not only a beautiful place but it's gave us a hope -there are people out there keep working hard for preserving our nature. What have we done?

P.S. All picture taken with mobile phone, as my pocket camera fall into water. Glad it's still work but it's still on the reparation for the auto focus function.