The Samosir Island was a volcanic island in the middle of the Toba Lake in the North Sumatran province, Indonesia. An island in the island with the height 1.000 meters above sea level made this island become an interesting island attention of the tourists.
In this island also was gotten two small lakes as the area of the tour that is the Sidihoni Lake and the Aek Natonang Lake that received the nickname of the "lake on the lake".
Tuktuk was the canter of the concentration of tourists in the Samosir Island. From Parapat, Tuktuk could be connected with the crossing ferry. Apart from water communications, the Samosir Island could be also reached through the land road through Pangururan that became the place where the Samosir Island and the Sumatra Island were connected. The Samosir Island was believed in as the area from the person Batak. Because in this island, to be precise in Pusuk Buhit, Sianjur Mulamula sub district was the person's origin Batak. Pusuk Buhit was hills with the height more than 1.800 meters on the surface of the Toba Lake. These hills was believed as the universe or "Mulajadi Nabolon" (the Lord) appeared. In this sub district had the Sianjur Mulamula Village that was the first settlement of the community's Batak group.
This village was in foot the Pusuk Buhit hill. In this village was gotten by the cultural guarantee took the form of the miniature of the House of Si Batak King. As information, the term of King Batak not because of the position as the king and had the area of the government, but more in the descendant’s Batak respect for the ancestors of the Batak Ethnic Group. In the Sianjurmulamula settlement, there was the traditional Batak house building, that was the house on stilts was made from wood, without the nail, be equipped the ladder, and the zinc roof. On the settlement was gotten by the Hobon Stone tour. This stone was the case was made from the stone that was made by the descendants King Batak, Saribu King who was the blacksmith hundreds last year. In the case of this stone was kept by the wealth of Saribu King, that by the local community at this time no one succeeded in being opened closed the case.
On the Hobon Stone was gotten Sopo Guru Tatea Bulan. This building was gotten in the Sulatti Hill (under Pusuk Buhit), and in the building was gotten several of the descendant’s statues King Batak along with the statue of several vehicles the King Batak and his guard. The vehicle including the dragon, the elephant, the lion, the tiger and the horse. Moreover was gotten also the Batukursi tourist attraction that was located in Ambarita, Samosir. In the Batukursi tourist attraction was gotten the Grave King Siallagan. Batukursi, just as the local resident mentioned him, was the location of the meeting at the same time the slaughter of the criminal in the period. (hen)