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| Kawah ratu (Queen Crater), the biggest crater on Tangkuban Perahu area. |
Tangkuban perahu is a active volcano mount that located on West Java, Indonesia. It is about 20 kms north of bandung and located between Sagalaherang Village in Sagalaherang district in Subang Regency, and also Cikole village on Lembang District, Bandung Regency, West Java. Because the location between two district of two different regency, Tangkuban perahu become the border between Subang and Bandung. Tangkuban Perahu is an interesting destionation for everyone in the Bandung area. With the beautiful panorama of the great Mountain with the great lake with sulfur smell and cold weather, u can feel amazing attraction in there.
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| With Mr. Reiner from Germany on Tangkuban Perahu |
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| With Mrs. Gow from Singapore enjoy tthe view of this volcano. |
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| With Group from Philipine. |
The biggest crater on tangkuban Perahu is Queen Crater or "Kawah Ratu", and the last crater that been erupted on 1970s is Upas crater. And Tangkuba Perahu is one of the active volcano in Indonesia. the eruption only throw the dangerous gases and when the eruption happen, this place is close for the visitors.
Beside the two big crater that mentione, there's another crater called "Kawah Domas". To reach that crater u have to walk for 1,2 kilometers from the Ratu Crater. During the trip to the Domas crater, there's alot of vendor street offer you to buy eggs to cook because the water inside the crater is hot.
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| On Domas Crater |
Tangkuban Perahu means, in fact, "up-turned boat". This is because the shape of the mountain looks like upturned boat if you see from bandung city. And its connecting to the legend of the Sundanese people from early times as expressed in the Legend of Sangkuriang. It tells story about a young man (Sangkuriang) who fall in love to a woman (Dayang Sumbi) that is his real mother. They separated for long time since Sangkuriang was a child. 20 years after, sangkuriang back to his village and met with beautiful woman (Dayang Sumbi) and they love each other without knowing the fact that Sangkuriang is her son. They planned to marry. But one day before marry, dayang Sumbi realize that sangkuriang actually is her son who separated with her. After knowing that fact, Dayang Sumbi canceled the marriage and told the truth to Sangkuriang but he didnt believe the truth. dayang Sumbi asked sangkuriang to build a beautiful lake and filling the lake with water. And sangkuriang also needs to build boat to sail on that lake. And dayang Sumbi requested to Sangkuriang to do those all jobs in one night. Sangkuriang finally asking help from the Guriang (God in Ancient in Sundanese story). And dayang sumbi worried that Sangkuriang able to do her request so she tried to make Sangkuriang failed and her efforts success. sangkuriang got angry and kick the boat that he made to the lake that he made and become the volcano mount now called Tangkuban Perahu.
