Lake Tolire Ternate

Been to Ternate, North Maluku, is not complete if you did not take to the attraction of Lake Tolire. The lake is located about 10 miles from the center of the city of Ternate, in addition to the unique shape also has an interesting legend. The lake is under the foot of Mount Gamalama, the highest volcano in North Maluku. The lake itself there are two. Local people call it the Great Lakes and Lake Tolire Tolire Small. The distance between them is only about 200 meters.
The lake is unique is Tolire Great Lakes. This lake resembles a giant pan. From the edge of the lake water to the surface, it about 50 meters, breadth of about five acres. While to date no one has measured the depth of this lake, but according to origin stories kilograms meters depth and relate directly to the sea.
Great Lakes Tolire this sweet-water and there are plenty of fish, but the local community no one dares to catch fish or bathe in the lake, because they believed that the lake water is yellowish brown, the crocodile inhabited by many demons. Stealth crocodiles are often seen swimming in the middle of the lake. It is white and about 10 meters in length.
Not everyone could see the crocodile stealth, only those lucky ones who can. According to the local community, if you take a new clean stealth chance to see crocodiles in the lake. There are stories, too, there used to be a foreign tourist who does not believe that there are alligators in the lake was invisible. Travelers that fell into the lake and bathe after swimming a few minutes, he disappeared. Allegedly tourist was devoured by crocodiles stealth.
Another uniqueness of this lake is that throwing something into the lake. However the strong throw stones or other objects to use, will never touch the lake water. Yet when thrown from the upper edge of the lake, the lake was seen at the foot of the pitcher.
Those who first visited the lake, would not believe. They then tried to throw after buying the stones are sold on the lake at Rp 1,000, - to five seeds of stone. But no one who could throw touch the surface of the lake water. According to the story of an ancestor, a stone thrown into the lake would never touch the surface of the lake water, because it was blocked by the mystical power of the lake bottom. believed supernatural powers that come from the existing stealth crocodiles in the lake.
At the base of the Great Lakes Tolire believed the local community there are many treasures. This treasure belongs to the people when the Portuguese colonized the Sultanate of Ternate Ternate in the 15th century. Community Ternate was wasting lots of valuable property into the lake, so as not deprived the Portuguese.
So far there has been no agency or certain parties who conduct investigations specifically for the accuracy of the recognition that society, but some time ago there was a member of the Mobile Brigade uses sonar to detect objects that exist at the bottom of the lake. Of the sonar was caught presence of metallic objects on the bottom of the lake. If linked, metal objects that might treasure the first Ternate, which discharged into the lake when the Portuguese colonized Ternate.Great Lakes and Lake Tolire Tolire Small is, according to a story the local community, was once a prosperous village where people live. The village was later condemned to the lake by the ruler of the universe, because one of his father in the village that impregnates his own daughter.
When father and daughter who for pregnant it will escape to the outside of the village, suddenly the ground fell where they stood and turned into a lake. Great Lakes Tolire believed to be the place of the father, while Little Lake Tolire believed to be the place of the girl. Although the story is often considered only as a legend of a hard sell in today's modern era, but for the citizens of Ternate, especially parents, so trust it. This story will continue to be sustainable in the hearts of the people of Ternate until the end of time.
To visit the Great Lakes and Lake Tolire Tolire Small, it is not difficult. It only takes about ten minutes from the central city of Ternate, using chartered cars Rp250 thousand per day, or hire a motorcycle taxi fare motorcycle with Rp 10,000, -/jam.
When visiting the Great Lakes Tolire, many other tourist attractions that can come to enjoy. Beautiful panorama of the summit of Mount Gamalama, a number of Portuguese forts and tombs Babullah Sultan, the sultan of Ternate's most famous, there are on the road to the lake.
In addition, visitors can also enjoy the beautiful white sand beach Sulamadaha, which is located only about three kilometers from the Great Lakes Tolire. From this Sulamadaha Beach visitors can also hire a boat for fishing or go diving panaroma see the beauty beneath the sea around the beach. Very interesting is not it?
 


Sources: www.kapanlagi.com