Letters from Within LAKE TOBA

Samosir Island (Sumatra, Indinesia) is located in the middle of Toba lake, the largest volcanic lake in the world. The biggest known super volcanic eruption on Earth in the last 25 million years caused a global volcanic winter, killed most humans living at that time (69,000-77,000 years ago), and possibly affected the genetic make up of the human world-wide population. Samosir island is a home for Toba Batak people and the place where all the Batak come from originally. Unusual traditions and contemporary b