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The beauty of Stone Garden Travel Padalarang

Bandung has many natural attractions that is extraordinary . It turned out that Bandung has a natural attraction of the cave, the Cave Pawon and Stone Garden travel . Pawon Cave is a cave formed in ancient times . This cave used by early humans as a shelter . And unique over Pawon cave rocks are very beautiful expanse with superb views known as the Stone Garden - Taman Batu . No less beautiful natural attractions Tangkuban Perahu , Ciwidey Kawah Putih and Situ Patengan a natural tourism area which is frequented by many local and foreign tourists .

Journey to the Cave Pawon

Stone Garden is located in the Village of Mount Masigit , West Bandung District Cipatat by consuming travel time 1-2 hours from downtown Bandung . If using a car and travel the freeway will take less than 1 hour if the conditions are not jammed . Yesterday chance me and my friends riding a motorcycle in tandem only takes 1 hour with a distance of 38.7 km . Highly recommended to leave in the morning , but can breathe fresh air along the way , the scenery tourist location Stone Garden is nice and the weather is not too hot .

Piece of History Stone Garden

A little story about the history of the Stone Garden, why there are rocks with that? In contrast to the texture of the rocks that normally. Taman Batu is a silent witness to the formation of Bandung Purba Lake in antiquity. It is above the Cave Pawon. Pawon cave itself in which there are fossils of early humans in a crouched position or as the cold. With any luck my friends will find stones with holes, the stone is a stone formed from fossilized sea shells. Loh loh? How come there are fossilized sea shells in this mountain area? Hmm .. So confused. Initially I also believe sempet guns, when temen gw story that was once the region is a shallow sea. Wow, bisaa yaaa .. What guns could be by the power of God? Elaaahh .. Yep, once the area around Pangandaran Read, Stone Garden until I did not know until a radius of how a shallow sea. Due to a very severe earthquake resulted in the earth's surface move irregularly and Pawon Cave area was lifted up to the surface of the water and reaching as high as this. Imagine her kek earthquake occurred until now how about this right now! (Intermezzo)

There is another intriguing story ya, what relation Pawon Cave, Stone Garden and the CRB? Hmm .. What yaaa .. Citarum River is a river that has existed since prehistoric times, and became the largest river in the area of ​​Bandung. The Citarum River is a river prehistoric times, as the largest supplier of water to the formation Bandung Purba Lake. After Bandung Purba Lake receded due to natural events, which indicated the water coming in through the holes in Sanghyang Tikoro, then Bandung Purba Lake receding and leaving a large basin which is currently known as the city of Bandung.

Climbing trip to Stone Garden

if you want to get into the region Goa Pawon and Stone Garden travel, when it had reached the village of Citatah, along the way a lot of the selling of natural stone, look in the right way (direction of Bandung) there Gapura "Welcome" to Goa Pawon. Just go ahead and do not forget ngikutin instructions. Goa Pawon park already is paved and wide enough, so do not worry if the place ugly. Rather ugly it is his way to the Stone Garden. Eh Iyaa, entrance tickets to Goa Pawon worth USD 5500.00.

From the parking lot Pawon Goa will look berpaving roads and footpaths towards the top of the cave pawon. Berpaving path is a path to full Pawon Goa surrounded by monkeys. Well, if you want to Stone Garden we are going down the path. Highly recommended wearing sneakers because they are often slippery and steep streets. The slope of the road around 45o. Wih a bit steep too yaa! The distance traveled about 1km from the car park, after approximately 500 m, a friend's apartment will find a small shack shack resting place and the local people who sell. This place was once just a shack talaga (see picture on the blog), after yesterday there hut multiply. For those who feel tired, can rest a while in situ, or just want to buy food. From there, there will be a crossroads, then take the road to the left to reach the top of Stone Garden. Before entering the area of ​​Stone Garden, will cost more (cash ngisi word mas "it there) cuman USD $ 3000.00. After that naek wrote, just follow the road after the post mas "it said, about 500 m friend's friend will get to the location.

Location Charming Stone Garden

Arriving at the location temen friend will see the beautiful sights that are served . The stones were neatly arranged , there are arranged a mess , but still formed a colony of beautiful rocks . As said in the beginning , just try to see the texture of the rocks are there , certainly different from the rocks that we often encounter . There are perforated holes fossil sea shells . In the middle of Stone Garden are a tourist hut that serves to retreat , but up here there are no people who sell at all . So bring war equipment such as drinking from home .

The beauty of travel Landscape Stone Garden is second to none during my visit natural attractions in Bandung. But unfortunately from a distance looks exploitation looked limestone uncontrolled. High hills, or even mountain leaving only a half share, and the rest have been crushed by machines rock miners. Smoke black smoke from chimney smokestacks space stone exploitation. Yes indeed Citatah area has great potential with its natural resources especially natural resources such as limestone and marble rocks. This can happen because the viewing history of this area was once a shallow sea. Truck truck carrying boulders passing by on the main road Citatah village. Is this exploitation has official permission or not, I also do not understand. What is clear with this activity could help the economy Citatah and surrounding villages. I hope exploitation of boulders in the mountains around the village Citatah not only the pursuit of production per day, but also pay attention to the surrounding environment as a result of this exploitation.

For those who wish to travel a Goa Pawon and Stone Garden travel are strongly advised to bring supplies from home, like a great meal (if you like), drinking water because there are only small stalls stalls selling snacks and drinks.

A glimpse of Goa Pawon, me personally yesterday sempet want to go in there after climbing to the Stone Garden. After walking to the front of the mouth of Goa, smell the fragrant scent of dirt monkey. Turns out it was the smell of bat droppings inside the cave, we mistook. Unable to stand and my friends decided to go home, so we are discouraged to enter exploration into it.