Green Canyon

Location : Cijulang, West Java

Green Canyon (Cukang Taneuh) is one of the famous object in West Java. located in the village of Kertayasa, in Cijulang. It is 31 kms from south of Pangandaran. The history why the name is Cukang Taneuh is because there's a brigde between the two big cliffs between the river. And the local people called the place Cukang Taneuh. Cukang its mean bridge and taneuh mean land.

The name of Green Canyon actually was given by the Western People since its difficult for them to say the original name of Green Canyon (Cukang Taneuh) and because the color of the river of Cijulang look so green and very clean. The green color of the river is because surrounding the river, there's two big cliffs and beautiful forest, and the green color is coming from the shadow of the trees because of the sunlight. But also some people think that the green color is coming from the depth color of the Cijulang river since the water is very clean.

At the entrance u have to sailing from the harbour to the cave. Its take about like 20 minutes to reach the cave. But during on the boat u will see the beautiful view of stalactite and stalagmite by the two beautiful green hills. At the cave of Green Canyon, lies very beautiful waterfall named Palatar Waterfall. The waterfall gives the area fully adventurous. You can swimming, sailing, fishing, or just looking around to enjoying the view of green canyon from the boat.