Enchantment Takengon City as a City Tour

Central Aceh Regency is one of the districts of Aceh Province, the capital of Central Aceh Regency is the town of Takengon, which is a small town located on one of the ridges of the Bukit Barisan mountains that stretches along the island of Sumatra. Central Aceh has been known for a long time as a region producing coffee, Avocado, Fruits and Vegetables so categorized as agricultural areas. The population of Central Aceh District consists of several tribes, namely Gayo tribe, Aceh Pesisir, Batak Karo, Batak Toba, Java, Padang, Tionghoa and others. Central Aceh Regency is geographically located at Coordinates: 4 ° 22'14,42-4 ° 42'40,8 LU and 96 ° 15'23,696 ° 22'10,76 BT and has hilly and mountainous topography.

Takengon City is located on the side of Lake Lut Tawar, Lut Tawar district. Takengon City is a cool highland plateau with an altitude of about 1200 m above sea level. Around the city Takengon also there are many tourist attractions, including:

Lake Lut Tawar is a natural lake with geological shape has an area of ​​5,472 hectares with a length of 17 km and a width of 3,219 km. The water volume is approximately 2,537,483,884 m³. This lake lives a wide variety of freshwater animals such as fish and shrimp. And supposedly surrounded the lake is also still a lot of rare animal habitats such as pangolins, hedgehogs, gibbons, antelope, forest cats and tigers. In the lake Lut Tawar there is also a culinary Tour located on the street one-one village. here are many stalls that provide Gayo typical foods such as: Masam Jeng and Pengat, as well as other foods such as Bawal, mujair, depik and keperas captured from Lake Lut Tawar, Cecah Angur (Gayo) sambal eggplant, which has always been an inseparable part of culinary in this cold city.

Gayo Highland or known as Bur Gayo, Bur (gayo) = Mountain. The plateau in the Takengon area makes it a land title above the clouds. with its fresh air with natural, nature appearance at the top of the Bur Gayo make the eyes very comfortable looking at the mountain green scenery.

It is one of the attractions that must be visited if a trip to takengon is a tour to Puteri Pukes cave. Loyang (gayo) Shake is the name for the cave , while pueri Pukes is a legend in the area of ​​Takengon City. For the geographical location of this cave is located in the foothills district Kebayakan the direction to the district Bintang Central Aceh Regency, where to get to this location takes about 2 km down from the City Takengon.

Pantan Terong is a hill located in bebesen district, and is located at the top of the hill of Gayo Takengon Plateau of Central Aceh Regency. The peak of the Pantan Terong is located at an altitude of more than 1,350 meters above sea level. From the peak of the Pantan Terong is almost seen all the villages in Takengon as well as beautiful scenery of Lake Lut Tawar and green hill ranks flanking downstream of the lake.

Takengon The district of Aceh is very famous for its Gayo Coffee, this is also one of the drivers that make Aceh famous for its coffee. coffee that grows in the plateau of this gayo has a delicious taste and distinctive. Gayo coffee is also known by the name Kopi Takengon. Gayo coffee is one type of arabica coffee is now very famous in the world.

If you are traveling from Banda Aceh City. You can use public buses or rent a car to come to Takengon with a distance of about 8 - 9 hours. By crossing the Pidie Regency, pidie Jaya, Bireun and Bener Meriah then you come to this cold city Takengon.