Lau Kawar Lake, Berastagi, North sumatera

Lau Kawar lake is one of the lakes in the Leuser area.  Lau Kawar  lake watery blue is located at the foot of Mount Sinabung. To get to Lake Lau Kawar, from the city of Medan towards Berastagi. From the monument struggle in Berastagi City, we turn to the right towards Simpang Empat. A distance of about 30 Km from the City Berastagi takes about 1 hour, passing through Kabanjahe - People Kuta. then we will arrive at  Lau Kawar lake, District Naman Teran, District
Karo, North Sumatra. When out of the city of Medan, Law Kawar is located approximately 69 Km with a distance of about 3 hours. Currently, the road to  Lau Kawar is very smooth compared to a few years plainly.
Lake area of ​​200 hectares is in comparison to Lake Toba, is only 1/6 of Lake Toba, but charm is not inferior to the Lake Toba. Headed to Lake Lau Kawar, there can be a variety of alternative public transport from the city of Medan, among others, by Karsima, Sinabung or silk. By paying Rp.6.000, -, we will transfer to Lau Kawar lake. Very typical rural landscape will be found from Brastagih to  Lau Kawar Lake, in addition to left and right, we will see vegetable plants belonging to the community, punctuated by orange groves. Along the way we will cross paths with many rural vehicle in the form of a wooden cart that hela by a cow. This transport usually brings grass, leaves of corn, or crops results residents.
Situated right at the foot of Mount Sinabung, Mount dormant for hundreds of years and bertype A since erupted in 2010. Lau Kawar is the entrance to the Mount Sinabung. Therefore very exotic location. Lau Kawar entering the gate, on the right side of the lake lies Deleng Lancuk or Lancuk Hill who used to be a place tracking, quite a lot of forest orchids that can be found in Deleng Lancuk. Dear leech is also quite a lot, so be careful if interested in Deleng Lancuk tracking.
While the left side of  Lau Kawar Lake, located camping ground area of ​​3 hectares, this is where the mountaineers set up his tent before climbing Mount Sinabung. On every Saturday and Sunday, the camping ground is crowded with tents nature lovers, at least 200-400 tents stood at the camping ground every week, especially if the semester break, the number could increase. Moreover, the contribution is relatively low, which is about 2,500, - per tent. Dear only 1 room for rent resident here for 25.000, - / night. Then stay at Law Kawar alternative is to tent at Camping Ground.
Every day, people fishing with small boats on this lake. Generally, they come back when the sun went down at dusk. Scenic fishermen's return at dusk exoticism of its own that can be enjoyed by visitors of Lake Lau Kawar. To enjoy the exoticism of Lake Lau Kawar, there is also a form of entertainment along the lake with the two rafts that were there.
Currently, of the observations made, on the shores of Lake Law Kawar has been fitted to the stone gabion retaining erosion, above have been made of iron barrier that pegunjung not plunged into the lake. From the writer's observation, it appears the subsidence of water about 2-3 meters compared to the arrival of the author to Lake Lau Kawar in 2000, about 10 years ago.
Information that was obtained from the author, in the 80s, the deepest point of Lake Lau Kawar up to 40 meters, but this time the latest data found that the deepest point just stay 19 meters. There was a decrease of more than 50% in just 30 years. Of course, this should be a concern of government, community and environmentalists.