Mount Tangkuban Perahu Tour And Travel | Travel Information

Name        : Mount Tangkuban Perahu
Location   : Bandung
Country    : Indonesia
This location is very beautiful and stunning highly inappropriate for a family vacation who want to travel. This location is ideal and will never regret after the visit.
Tangkuban perahu is an active volcano, situated 30 km north of the city of Bandung in the direction of Lembang. It is the only crater in Indonesia that you can drive up to its very rim. Mount Tangkuban Perahu has a distinctive shape, and looks like an “overturned boat”. The huge crater is an astonishing view and you can walk around and explore this for around two hours. Here you will be greeted by sulfur fumes which the crater continues to emit although the volcano is not active.

Like so many of Java’s unusual geographical features, there is an interesting legend behind this fascinating mountain as expressed in the local legend of Sangkuriang. Sangkuriang was a strong young man, who had been separated from his mother, Dayang Sumbi since childhood. Yet, through God’s he came to meet her again. On the way home, he stopped by a small village where he met and fell in love with a beautiful girl, without realizing that the girl he loved was in fact his own mother, Dayang Sumbi, who had remained youthful through the years.

When Dayang Sumbi discovered the terrible truth of her lover’s real identity, she was horrified and knew that she could never marry her own son. She, therefore, challenged him to build a dam and a huge boat during one single night before she would agree to marry him. Seeing that her son was about to complete this impossible wish, she called on God to bring up the sun early. With a wave of her magic shawl, Dayang Sumbi lit up the eastern horizon with flashes of light. Deceived by what looked like dawn, the cocks crowed and farmers rose for a new day. When Sangkuriang realized that his endeavor was lost, in his rage he kicked the boat that he had built turning it upside down, which was transformed into Mount Tangkuban Perahu, the name that in the local Sundanese language translates roughly to "overturned boat".

Tangkuban Perahu has definitely a significant role especially in the development of the surrounding Parahyangan (land of God) Highlands. Its eruption contributed immensely to the formation and fertility of the hills north of Bandung when through its flow of lava carrying large boulders into the valleys, these formed huge cliffs over which waterfalls leapt to form the lake that today covers the Bandung plain.

At Tangkuban Perahu crater looks a little water to form lakes which is geologically known as a caldera (crater that no water). Ironically near the caldera is visible smoke is a sign of active reaction and Tangkuban Perahu Mountain. Only the smoke from the crater of this mountain there are not as much and segarang Mount Papandayan.

The existence of Mount Tangkuban Perahu Bandung and topographic relief in the form of the basin with hills and mountains on each side strengthens the theory of the existence of a large crater that is now the Bandung area. Geologists believe that the highlands Bandung, around 709 m above sea level is the remnant of an ancient volcanic eruption known as Mount Sunda, and Mount Tangkuban Parahu be remnants of ancient Sunda Mountain is still active. This phenomenon can be seen on Mount Krakatau in the Sunda Strait and Ngorongoro district in Tanzania, Africa. So the legend that is the story of society Sangkuriang region is believed to be a public documentation of ancient Sunda Mountain area to the events at the time.

We did not linger on Tangkuban Perahu because the wind was blowing faster and faster so that kept stinging smell of sulfur smell. But for us Tangkuban Perahu really exotic ... way to the top to clear the mind. Forests, trees and green Tangkuban Perahu we will never forget.