Nias Island

Nias district is a district in North Sumatra, which is located on the island of Nias. The capital of Nias is Gunung Sitoli, to get to Gunung Sitoli can be taken within 10 hours through a sea trip from Sibolga or 1 hour from the city of Medan via air travel. These can be used is Lion Air / Wings Air, SMAC (Fokker F-50), Dove (CN 235), and Riau airlines. Nias district has tourist attractions which are very unique, ranging from cultural tours and panoramic beauty.

Toruist destination in Nias North Sumatra

 

Nias Heritage Museum

 

Museum located at Jalan Yos Sudarso No. 134-A Gunungsitoli this is the only vehicle storage cultural splendor Nias, North Sumatra, a museum with an area of ​​2 hectares, this can be said also community recreation centers in Gunungsitoli. Astonishing is during holidays visitors can reach 1500 people.While visiting this museum not only heirlooms that you will see, at the same time you can also can visited tourist attraction seaside not far from the museum. Can also see the collection of rare animals and plants typical of Nias, or stay in Nias traditional house that indeed can be rented at this place.Nias Heritage Museum collection of approximately 6,500 historical objects that come from the people of Nias Island. Here you can see immediately a valuable collection of diverse cultures Nias, including: household items, traditional musical instruments, jewelry, and sculptures. A collection of objects on display is equipped caption (Indonesian and English) to know the history, meaning, and function. Body care collection is fairly good museum and several collections using special preservative drug that is not quickly broken.  

Sorake beach

 

Sorake is one of the outer coast of Sumatra, this beach is a favorite of the surfers because it has very good waves for surfing, even the so-called best waves 2nd after Hawaii. The beach is located in the village of Batohilitano Teluk Dalam, Nias district of North Sumatra. As the beach is known as the roll waves. Sorake visited in june and july where this month, Sorake has a large sea wave and surf in this championship is often held. Obviously, this is a golden opportunity for you both surfers and the like to capture the image or just a regular traveler. And month-other month, on average, on Saturdays and Sundays the beach is visited by local tourists. To get to the beach Sorake could use sea or air.  

Beach Lagundri

 

Similarly Sorake, Lagundri Beach also has very good waves for surfing because it is still in line with Sorake beach. Lagundri and Sorake beach are two of the hundreds of beaches in Indonesia, which is suitable for tourists who like surfing or surfing. Lagundri beaches are in a lagoon adjacent to Sorake, which is 13 kilometers south of Teluk Dalam, the capital of South Nias, North Sumatra. The distance between the beach Lagundri and Sorake only 2 kilometers.  

Skip rocks Nias 

 

There is a tradition that is unique on the island of Nias, namely Jump stone, this tradition has printed in 1000 Rupiah currency denominations. Just by looking at it was not possible to jump over a stone fortress 2 meter high, but for the Nias youth was not that difficult. The stone skipping ability can not be obtained immediately, because of the age of 7 years old boy on the island of Nias already started training with skipping rope that kept rising proportion as their age increases. And when the time has come, they will jump over piles of stones shaped like a truncated prism as high as 2 meters. It also became a graduated courage and maturity to them as descendants of warriors of Nias. If you want to see this tradition directly, visit to the island of Nias. 

Fact: Stone should jump height of about 2 meters, width of 90 cm and length 60 cm. Square off with a run that was not far away, a young man Nias will swiftly speeding then stepped on a rock and then bounced into the air passing through a large rock as high as 2 meter resembles a fortress. Peak aids should not be touched and a perfect landing must be resolved because if not then the risk is muscle strain or even fracture.

Beach Laowomaru  

 

Laowomaru beach is one of the popular beaches on the island of Nias, because the beauty of the panorama and perhaps because of his legend. 

Charlita beach

 

Nias Island myriad attractions beaches, as the island of Nias is a county island so look for coastal tourism in Gunungsitoli not difficult. In addition to coastal North Gunungsitoli Lawomaru, Lagundri and Sorake beach and there are also beaches Charlita, a tourist area that is always crowded with local people to relieve fatigue or just looking the high seas of cubicles lined cottage overlooking the ocean. The beach is located in the village of Afia, District of North Gunungsitoli, about 14 kilometers from the center of Gunungsitoli, making these attractions are within easy reach. To the location, two and four wheel vehicles through the trail which is about 100 meters from the highway.  

Foa beach

 

Five attraction is located in Nusa Indah Beach Foa approximately 17 km from the town of Gunungsitoli. In this attraction we enjoy the natural beauty of the sea is very beautiful and has a special attraction for visitors because it can enjoy panoramic natural beach while accompanied by delicious seafood.  

Beautiful estuary

 

Beautiful estuary is a very beautiful area is 15 km from the city of Gunung Sitoli. Beautifully located at the mouth of the estuary of the river so that his encounter with the sea creates its own beauty. This place is very crowded with visitors, especially on holidays and weekends to enjoy a variety of foods from marine catches gerapu such as fish, squid, shrimp, crab mangroves, and various types of other sea products. The visitors / tourists generally enjoyed the meal while enjoying the panoramic beauty of nature in the beautiful estuary complex is equipped with a variety of marine tourism facilities. In these places often implemented various art performances and cultural activities as well as other ceremonial occasions because it was relatively far from Gunungsitoli.That's some list of attractions island of Nias, there are many tourist attractions that have not had time we collect and also from other islands. Wait for the next update of the tourist spots in Indonesia.