Kawah Putih in Bandung
Regency Bandung has many resorts which offer beautiful scenery and legends of interest. One is the District Ciwidey in the south of Bandung regency. In this area there is an interesting tourist attraction is the White crater.
Kawah Putih is a crater lake of Mount Patuha with altitude 2434 meters above sea level with temperatures between 8-22 ° C. At the top there’s Mount Patuha Crater “Saat”, which means subsided in Bahasa Sunda, which is on the west and the Kawah Putih below 2194 meters in altitude above sea level.Both craters were formed by eruptions that occurred at about X and XII century ago. Kawah Putih is located about 46 km from the city of Bandung or 35 km from the capital of Bandung regency, Soreang, toward Ciwidey.
Legend of the Kawah Putih
Mount Patuha said to have originated from the name of the Old Man or “Patua”. Local communities is often called the Mount Sepuh. Formerly the local people consider Mount Patuha region and this Kawah Putih as a haunted area, no one dared to touch or to get there. It is said that haunted, even the birds flying over the crater will die.
Mystery of the Kawah Putih lake beauty was revealed in 1837 by a researcher at the German-born Dutch botanist, Dr. Junghuhn Franz Wilhelm (1809-1864) who conducted research in this area. As a scientist, Junghuhn simply do not trust local stories. As he traveled through the wilderness research Mount Patuha, he finally found a beautiful crater lake. Like a mountain crater, from the lake bursts out of lava flows of gas and sulfur smell and the nose piercing. From it was revealed that the content is very high sulfur that causes the birds are reluctant to fly across the top surface of the Kawah Putih lake.
Because the content of sulfur in the crater lake is very high, at the time of the Dutch government had built the plant with a sulfur Zwavel Ontgining ‘Crater White’. Then the Japanese era, the business was continued under the name White crater that Kenzanka Gokoya Ciwidey under direct military control of Japan.
Area around the White crater there are several ancestral tombs, including graves Jaga Satru Grandmother, Grandmother Rongga Sadena ,Camat Grandmother, Grandmother Ngabai, Barabak Grandmother, Grandmother Baskom, and Grandmother Jambrong. One of the top of the Peak of Mount Patuha Kapok, was the place where the ancestors of the meeting was led by Jaga Satru Grandmother. That said, this place looks magical, sometimes in a set of white fluffy sheep by sheep called lukutan community.
Kawah Puttih Lake has a characteristic and unique ways. The water in the crater lake may change color, sometimes green apple bluish when the hot sun and fine weather, sometimes also the color of milk chocolate. Most often seen in white water with a thick mist over the surface of the crater. In addition to the crater surface is white, sand and rocks around it were predominantly white, hence the crater is called the Kawah Putih.
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