Enchantment of the Twin Lakes in the Bukit Barisan Slope

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November 1, 2009

dbawah West Sumatra province is rich in lakes. There are five lakes in here, Maninjau Lake, Lake Festival, Lake Above, Lake Below, and Lake Talang. Except Lake Maninjau, there are four other lakes in Solok.

Therefore, Solok district that is rich with lakes in West Sumatra. In fact, the three lake, namely Lake Above, Below Lake, and Lake Talang is located in an area called the Twin Lakes Area.

Called the Twin Lakes area, because the two lakes, namely Lake Above and Lake Below is located adjacent the distance is only about 300 meters. This area is known as the first tourist attraction because it is located on the edge of the road from Padang to MUARALABUH-Kerinci.

dtalang While Lake Talang is about 4.5 km from the lake. That they are located in the waist of Mount Talang and far from the road to make this lake has also been known as a tourist attraction. Unfortunately the eruption of Mount Talang in the last three years to make this lake can not be visited, because it is still a forbidden area there.

The area currently being developed as a tourist mainstay. Not only tourist mainstay Solok, even the mainstay of West Sumatra.

To reach this area is very easy. From the city of Padang we can take the bus between cities in the province to Alahan length or MUARALABUH . Distance traveled during the 60 km 1.5 hours by road winding. If the journey taken by private vehicle, only about 1 hour.

Near to the location of the air to be cold and we’ve been able to see the lake over the right of the car window. If the public bus we had to alight at Pasar Simpang. Here there are two intersection, crossroad on the right with the road down the road to Lake Above, where the lake was clearly visible as under.

While other intersection in the left is a road to climb. The road to Lake Below. Name the two lakes are contradictory to this location, often make people ask, why the lake is situated on a hill called the Lake Below, whereas under the hill or under the road is called Lake Above.

That’s because although situated on the hill, the water surface elevation of Lake Under the same height as the bottom of Lake Above.

datas Above the lake with an area of 17.20 square meters, length 6.25 km and 2.75 km wide, surface water located at an altitude of 1600 meters above sea level. The lake is quite shallow, with the deepest part is only 44 meters.

While the water surface of Lake Under an altitude of 1566 mdpl. This means that the water surface level with the bottom waters of Lake Above. However, the lake has an area of 16.90 square meters, length 5.62 km and 3.00 km wide is very deep, which is 886 meters.

Traveling by boat can not we enjoy in Lake Below. The lake is surrounded by a large number of hills and lakes is very far from where the government built landscape. Not like in the Lake Above, we can not touch the hands or feet into the water. It’s just beautiful scenery. From this panorama, we can also see the lake over.

In the panorama Lake Above have small shops selling Dutch passion and eggplant as fruits typical of this region. There also sell a range of mountain flowers in the small to large pots. There is also a selling dried flowers to decorate the mountain juice. These dried flowers dried flower of some kind of grass that grows in swamps around the lake. This grass flowers appear only once a year at Lake Above.

In Lake Talang colder air and the atmosphere is quiet. Unfortunately, because the lake is located near the crater of Mount Talang is currently active and often erupted, this area was closed for visitors. In addition, the last scene of this lake was closed Talang ash.

Twin Lakes area is also famous for producing vegetables such as carrots, cabbage, and cabbage high quality. In addition, producers of passion fruit and eggplant Dutch.

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