The fascinating holiday destinations caldera of Maninjau Lake is one of the famous interesting places West Sumatra travel highlights, Indonesia. It is a small caldera surrounded by fascinating lush green mountains and lovely villages encircled by a 60km road around it. Above all the green Minangkabau countryside is lavishly overwhelmed with the terraced paddy rice field all around it.
The impressive caldera of Maninjau is around 450m absl and situated about 90 minutes’ drive from Bukittinggi. Furthermore 3 hours from Harau Valley and 4 hours’ from Padang Minangkabau International Airport. Whereas the road itself is such a quite windy road via Kelok 44 hairpin road which bends down to the lake shore. And it obviously is such a perfect place for you to relax and re-energize your body after spending some tiring day during your holiday trip.
There are so many interesting places and tourist attractions around this caldera. Such as:
The lovely beach and countryside of Maninjau Lake.
The hairpin road Kelok 44.
Puncak Lawang.
Paragliding.
Jungle Trekking.
The enchanting (Danau) Maninjau Lake is a remarkable impressive volcanic crater which is one of fabulous interesting places in West Sumatra, Indonesia. In fact, it is such an inspiring scenic beauty scenery with magnificent peaceful surroundings and furthermore with mild climate. It is about 90minutes from Bukittinggi, 4hours from Padang…
A visit to West Sumatra Indonesia is not complete especially without visiting the magnificent panorama Puncak Lawang Maninjau Volcanic Lake. Besides the beautiful scenery, other various outdoors activities you can also do around here such as Paragliding / Parachutting, Zip Lining, etc. This famous travel highlight around Minangkabau Matrilineal Highland…
The famous traditional brown sugar village An agricultural village well known for its sugar cane, peanuts and pumpkin. You might see and experience bumping into some farmers that produce traditional sugar brown with a blind-fold buffalo used as their machine to squeeze the juice of sugar can and boiled the…
The very well-known Kelok 44 is absolutely a kind of scenic hairpin bends road that descends down to Maninjau Lake. The hairpin road itself is about 9km length which starts from the top of Ambun Pagi village to Maninjau village. And this is the only accessible main road if coming…
Paragliding Puncak Lawang is the famous interesting thing to do and see while spending your holidays in West Sumatra Indonesia. In fact it is the worldwide well-known site and one of the best spots for professional Paragliding/Parasailing/Parachuting in Indonesia. Usually there will be a big event/festival from all around the…
