Mt. Tangkuban Perahu

Mt. Tangkuban Perahu

A. Overview

Mount Tangkuban Perahu is one of the volcanoes found in West Java. Tangkuban Perahu mountain is called because shaped like an inverted boat. The word "Tangkuban" (Sundanese) is inverted. Mount which has a height of approximately 2084 meters above sea level has a wide range of forest areas, namely Hill dipterocarp forest, dipterocarp forest Upper Montane forest, and jungle Ericaceous.

Historically, this mountain had erupted in 1910 with a power of 2 on the Richter Scale. As a result of the eruption that formed the many craters are often issued to the lowlands sulfur fumes underneath it.

According to local story, the origin of the formation of Mount Tangkuban Perahu Sangkuriang derived from legend, the son of a beautiful woman named Dayang Sumbi. As a child Sangkuriang expelled by his mother for having killed a dog (father Sangkuriang who incarnates / changed into a dog). Dayang Sangkuriang Sumbi and then split up over the years.

After Sangkuriang adults, they finally met. The meeting was made Sangkuriang fall in love and wanted to marry Dayang Sumbi. However, Dayang Sumbi declined because he knew that Sangkuriang is his biological child. To reject the request, Dayang Sumbi proposed requirement for a boat made overnight. Having failed to finish the boat, Sangkuriang angry and kicked the boat up and then thrown into a mountain similar to the boat upside down.

B. Feature

Tangkuban Perahu mountain peak flat and elongated like an inverted boat. The form is rarely found on volcanoes in general. In addition to the unique shape, it also looks beautiful mountain because on the slopes of the mountain lies a vast tea gardens. From the top of this mountain, visitors can enjoy the beautiful scenery and cool air while looking at the atmosphere from a height of Bandung.

Visiting the Mount Tangkuban Perahu, tourists also can see the beauty of ten adjacent craters, namely Queen Crater, Crater Upas, New Crater, Crater Lanang, Ecoma Crater, Crater Jurig, Demon Crater, Domas Crater, Crater Jarian, and Pangguyangan Rhino. Craters that sulfur smoke that evaporates out of the sidelines of rocks located at the bottom of the crater.

Queen Crater, Crater Upas, and Domas Crater, a crater of Mount Tangkuban three boats that are often visited by tourists. Ratu crater shaped like a giant bowl large and deep. If the weather is sunny in the crater walls and visitors can see clearly the basis of the crater basin. Queen Crater is the largest crater on the mountain adjacent to Upas Crater, roughly about 1,500 meters away. Then Upas crater shape quite shallow and flat on the bottom, so much overgrown with wild trees on one side of the crater base. While the Domas Crater shape of basin that emit hot springs. In these hot springs, tourists can use it to wash the body, because the content of sulfur is believed to cure various kinds of skin diseases. There are also many tourists who take advantage of the hot springs to boil a chicken egg egg by entering it into the pool of hot water for about 10 minutes. After ten minutes, the eggs will mature and are edible.

To go craters, visitors can walk through the trail with mileage antarkawah that are not so far away. Travelers can also hire a special saddle horse to get to the location of Crater Queen.

C. Location

Sightseeing Boat Mount Tangkuban Cikole located in the village, Lembang district, Bandung regency, West Java, Indonesia.

D. Access

Tangkuban Perahu mountain located 30 km to the north of the city of Bandung. To get to the location of these attractions, visitors can use a personal vehicle (car) or public transportation (buses). If visitors use private vehicles from the direction of Subang and Lembang, to get to the location through the first entrance, it can travel through the campsite next to Cikole. However, if visitors want to go through a second entrance, the trip can head north from the campground, with the distance of about 3 km. The entrance to the first and second in the attractions are located on the main road connecting the region with the Subang Lembang. For visitors who use general kendaaran (bus) from the city of Bandung, the trip from Bandung to the location takes approximately 50 minutes.

E. Ticket Prices

To enter the sights of Mount Tangkuban Perahu, every visitor is free of charge at Rp 8,000 per person (October 2008).

F. Accommodation and Other Facilities

Around the crater lip area Upas Crater Queen and there are many shops and stalls selling various kinds of food, beverages, and cuisine that is sticky fuel Lembang. In this area many vendors who sell various kinds of children's games, dolls, hats, bags, craft from rocks, knick-knacks (bracelets, rings, sharp weapons typical of the region, scarves), musical instruments angklung, rock and sulfur powder (alternative medicine skin disease), bonsai plants, and strawberry fruit merchant who offers trading back and forth. For visitors who want to climb the mountain by riding a horse, saddle horse rentals there that can deliver visitors to climb the mountain.

Other facilities, there is a prayer room, spacious parking lot, and tourist information center. Not far from the tourist area, precisely in the Lembang area there are many inns and hotels jasmine class.

(Junardi/wm/21/10-08)