“God is smiling when He creates Bandung”
For me it just a words that may shows Bandung people are very bigheaded, even though in my heart I admitted that Bandung has always have ‘magical’ appeal to me. Old style City, Fresh Air, The environment, big trees ….. Quiet and Calm Neighborhood ..... Oh My!
Now I know what the say that, once we arrive in Kawah putih Ciwidey, the words has meaning thousands …………. “God Forgive me, that’s only you who able to create such a beautiful place!”
Some other people says “It is a Spill Heaven” some others say “It is a lost Heaven” and I say “this is ……..wooowww!!”
Stunning ... Very exotic and also …………. Mystique.
It’s like you are in the middle of nowhere, stunning, speechless don’t know what to say, then after you wake up …………..you’ll be realize that your body is freezing (hehehe ….), it is very cold out there. It’s about 10” Celsius degree daytime and about 5” Celsius degree nighttime. But you wont get such beautiful view in other places.
It seems that you are on another sub-tropical country
Ciwidey is located in the south part of Bandung about 46km and roughly 2 hours drive from the City. The road condition is good, but not to wide enough to handle medium size bus that quiet lot running around on it and the traffic is getting worse since you will find lot of wet market in the both side of the road. They really … really slow you down. But then once you pass Ciwidey then you’ll have very nice driving. But remember, before you get there you have to make sure that you have your meal properly, since there’s not to much proper food-stall on the locations, especially if you bring your family with you. I suggest you drop by to Sindang Reret Restaurant on the way there since as long as I can recall theirs is only nice restaurant with guest house facility around.
After Sindang Reret you will find lot of Self Service Strawberry Farm or “Kebun Strawberry Petik Sendiri” along the way to Kawah Putih. The Rates is around Rp. 30.000/kg and if you have it below that they will count it prorate. They are selling lot of strawberry stuff such as “Strawberry juice”, “Strawbberry Syrop”, “Dodol Strawberry” and even “Sambal Strawberry” can you imagine that? Sambal Strawberry?
Once you reach Kawah Putih Complex there’s a ticket box run by local authority or whatever, and you have to buy your ticket here. I can’t remember how much is it, but reasonable enough. Then you’ll be driving up to the mountain trough the woods. I suggest you to take it slowly and take an short drop if necessary just to play around in the forest. It’s about several km drive before you reach the Crate complex.
Road in the Forest up to Kawah Putih Complex
The Kawah Putih it self is on Gunung Patuha or Gunung Sepuh, about 2.434m high from sea level, it has two crates: “Kawah Saat” in the west side and “Kawah Putih” next before it on 2.194m above sea level. Kawah Putih it self is no longer active, is more like a dead lake with in the middle of ……….desert! Very exotic and also …………. Mystique.
But then, we do not have to much time to enjoy the view since the weather is not cooperating enough. We got myst very and even rain, so it force us back to the cars. First because we do not want to be wet, secondly because it is very cold. But at least we have been there, and we intend to go back there someday.
I found several blogs that may describe what Kawah Putih looks like with very nice photos on it, some of them have Professional photo result; just have a short visit there.
Archiaston Musamma Family
Kawah Putih on Vibiznews.com
Kawah Putih by Irsan Photography
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