9/02/2011

White crater Ciwidey South Bandung

White crater Ciwidey South Bandung

White Crater Landscape (photo © arie Saksono)
Regency Bandung has many resorts which offer beautiful scenery and interesting legends. One is the District Ciwidey located in the south of Bandung regency. In this area there are interesting tourist attraction is Crater White.
White crater is a crater lake of Mount Patuha with a height of 2434 meters above sea level with temperatures between 8-22 ° C. On top of that there is a crater Patuha Currently, when the mean low tide in Sundanese, which is in the west and below the crater White with a height of 2194 meters above sea level. Both craters were formed by eruptions that occurred at about X and XII centuries ago. White Crater is located about 46 km from Bandung or 35 miles from the capital, Bandung regency, Soreang, headed Ciwidey.


Legend White crater

Patuha said to have originated from the name Old Man or "Patua". Local people often refer to Mount Sepuh. Formerly the local people consider the region Patuha and White crater as a haunted area, no one dared to touch or to get there. Angkernya presumably because birds have a flyover above the crater will die.


Mystery White crater lake beauty was revealed in 1837 by a German-born Dutch botanist researcher, Dr. Junghuhn Franz Wilhelm (1809-1864) who conducted research in this area. As a scientist, Junghuhn stories just do not trust the local community. As he traveled through the wilderness study Patuha, he finally found a beautiful crater lake. As a volcanic crater, from the lake bursts out of the lava flows of gas and it smells of sulfur and a nose piercing. From it emerged that a very high sulfur content which is why birds are reluctant to fly across the top surface of the crater lake White.Because the sulfur content in the crater lake is very high, during the reign of the Dutch had built the plant with the name Zwavel sulfur Ontgining 'White crater'. Then in the Japanese era, the business was continued under the name White crater Kenzanka Gokoya Ciwidey directly under the control of the Japanese military.
Around the area there are a few crater White ancestral graves, among other things Keep your Grandmother's grave Satru, Eyang Sadena cavity, Head Grandmother, Grandmother Ngabai, Barabak Grandmother, Grandmother basin, and Grandmother Jambrong. One of the top of the Peak Patuha Kapok, supposedly a meeting place of the ancestors, led by Grandmother Keep Satru. That said, this place is magical at times seen a bunch of white fluffy sheep called sheep lukutan by society.
White Crater Lake has a typical and unique. The water in the crater lake may change color, sometimes colored bluish green apple when the sun and the weather is bright, sometimes also brown milk. Most commonly seen are white water with a thick fog over the crater surface. In addition to the surface of the crater, which is white, sand and rocks around it were predominantly white, therefore it is called White crater crater.

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