Taman Nasional - Gunung Halimun

Last May 17th 2007 we went to what it called Taman Nasional Gunung Halimun, just want to check out whether is worth enough for our kidz to see. We depart from Jakarta a bit late around 06 o’clock in the morning. I presume that since that place is near to sukabumi, it won't take to much time to go there, even though I've been warned that it gonna took around 5 hours drive.

From Tol Ciawi I took destination to sukabumi, long the way to a place called Parung Kuda then turn right to Kebandungan to reach the authority office, the distance is about 50+ km from Bogor We have to register our self to this authority office before we may continue to the site. Then........ The really journey is start from there.

We have to follow the only 'purposely' un-finished rock-road long the way across the country. And have very beautiful pedestrian scenery, combined between rice padi-field terasering that may very common in 'Ubud' area, surprisingly you may find it here without have to fly to Bali, then start changing to vegetable plantations, before we entering the tropical Forrest.

My God..... Finally we found it is really 5 hours drive from Jakarta before we arrive on their shelter. There's three main building there, one is their office, the other one is their guest house and the last one is open space function shelter (pendopo).

Me and my lovely wife, she is pretty isn't she .........??

We don't have enough time to go over the place, so we decided to see the famous canopy trail that unfortunately can not be access since it still under re-construction, then we going to the river and the 'Curug Cimacan' waterfall. According to the guide that company us, this waterfall is the place for Tiger to take a 'R&R' :-D

    

There's a cave that suspected to be his shelter but we do not want to spend our time to find out ;-)

I took several pictures here and there, before we decided to come back. It's is a nice place, almost untouched and they keep it that way on purpose. There's not enough time to see all over the place, may be next time we will come back to see the the other place. There should be around more than 10 places to visits, around 5 curug or waterfalls, hot spring, tea plantation, and loop trail that I believe is worth enough to try.

Canopy Trail, picture taken from www.dephut.go.id

But this is nice journey after all, at least we may get some nice pictures over there ..... ;-)

You may find information about this lovely place in the following URL:

Mount Halimun official website
Indonesia Ministry of Forestry