Tangkubanparahu crater tour is a blend of strength Sangkuriang legend rooted in the community of West Java and elegance loyal crater belching sulfur and hot springs.
Thousands of tourists both domestic and foreign tourists every day visit to Tangkubanparahu. In a visit to the crater, last April, the cold immediately greeted visited tourist area of about 1.5 million tourists per year. No wonder because it was cold, the steam out of the mouths of the tourists mingle.
Mount berketinggian 2084 meters above sea level is known as one of the world's active volcanoes, the crater could be seen with the naked eye. In fact, the basic crater could descend, and warm water to surface craters can be enjoyed by visitors to bathe, to boil an egg!
Of course, the memory of Tangkubanparahu inseparable from the memory charm bracelets and attractions in the vicinity. Call it the center of a vegetable and flower market that has a building Lembang Star Boscha observation. Then the natural forests are revered Jayagiri generation of the 1970s, and the Bimbo group immortalized in the song "Jasmine from Jayagiri" and Maribaya Natural Park which provides a warm sulfur water splash .... Maribaya ever perpetuated by a band called The Cats from the Netherlands as the title song.
Privileged crater made Tangkubanparahu defined as tourism based on the Decree of the Minister of Agriculture No. 528/Kpts/UM-IX, 3 September 1979. Area theme parks in the area of nature conservation forest has reached 370 hectares and become part of the Nature Reserve is an area of 1290 hectares Tangkubanparahu.
Located approximately 30 kilometers from Bandung, Tangkubanparahu can be taken for one hour from downtown, by car. Affordability of that distance that makes a lot of domestic and foreign tourists, mainly from Malaysia and India, visiting Tangkubanparahu.
Tangkubanparahu treasure lies in the presence of 12 crater, either active or inactive. The three largest crater with a diameter of about 500 meters into the premier tourist destination, namely the Queen Crater, Domas, and Upas. The presence of toxic gases in the crater of the Queen and Upas crater caused them can not descend since 1975. Only Domas could descend.
To see the crater of the Queen, who narrated the places Sumbi Dayang dive, thanks to his son's obsession Sangkuriang love it, tourists can park the car right on the lip of the crater.
Free view to the bottom of Crater Queen fascinate. Puddles of rain that fell in the bottom of the crater can change the colors: sometimes blue, another green day. Hazy who descended slowly from the treetops publishes natural exoticism.
If the rain patter down, darkness covered the region soon. Doubts often arise, between wanting to leave because it was so cold, or stay out of curiosity to see the coming dark.
Crater Queen has always been the first destination of tourists. Travel forwarded to Upas Crater, a distance of 1.5 kilometers from the crater of the Queen, then headed to Domas crater is 1.2 kilometers. In the Domas crater, tourists can sit at the bottom of the crater, while soaking feet in warm water. The water temperature varies, from 35 degrees celsius to 100 degrees celsius is the warmest. Tourists can also poach an egg on the hottest pool for 10 minutes. Boil eggs in the crater of the mountain is really a sensation.
Average 1500 tourists visit every day, 500 of them foreign tourists, mostly from Malaysia and India.
Unfortunately, the beauty of nature is so imperfect because of road conditions along approximately five miles in area was damaged. Improvement of roads hampered because the troubled Tangkubanparahu management status.
Since 2007, PT Graha Persada Putra Rani holds the license management of natural tourism Tangkubanparahu Natural Park of the Ministry of Forestry. However, permission was opposed by leaders and environmental campaigners because the assessed damage Jabar ecological function area. There is information, PT Graha Rani will build hotels, restaurants and cottages there. In fact, licenses, without the recommendation of the Governor of West Java.
Area management into the public spotlight because of nature tourism park to function ecologically, economically, as well as ethnological Sundanese community. Tangkubanparahu supplying 60 percent of water resources for the Bandung basin. Ecological damage here means a threat to the citizens of Bandung.
In this mountain grows several types of flora typical Tatar Sunda, among others, puspa (Schima wallichii), which can expel Lemo tree snakes and insects, and 12 kinds of ferns. Rare fauna are protected, such as Javanese eagles, leopards, and panthers, also live there.
Function ethnological placard with Tangkubanparahu Sundanese community relations. Narrated, Sangkuriang who wants to marry his mother, Dayang Sumbi, asked for a condition for making the lake, following the boat overnight. Dayang Sumbi thwart that effort with a flying scarf, and on the eastern horizon came the burst of dawn.
Feel like a failure, Sangkuriang angry and kicked the boat that fell clasped. From there Tangkubanparahu name appears as "winged words." Tangkubanparahu also known as the place of the gods because it is etymologically Parahu appoint said that means many, and hu, which means god or goodness.
Tangkubanparahu turn back now live thousands of people. Souvenir and food traders, artisans parking, and a groom, and more. The crater lip Queen, who had deserted, are now crammed with hundreds of stalls, car parking, to tempt the player with songs angklung Sunda witty.
