foreign tourists remain keen to visit the cool-weathered Karo regency in North sumatra,despite the continued eruption of mount sinabung. Tourist Tan Sin kok of malaysia said that when Mount sinabung started erupting five years ago it was initially deferred home from visiting the region
'Frankly speaking i was afraid to come here. Yet after reading up I come to karo and found out that weather here was still cool and clean,' Tan said on sunday
Tan has been visiting karo alone since Saturday and said he had enjoyed witnessing the eruption with MountSinabung spewing pyroclastic flows.