From the highway that connects and Purwakarta Subang, near the border between the two, there is the bend? Equipped signs and directions clear enough? To the south that will get you into a tourist attraction Curug Cijalu. The distance is about seven kilometers. Asphalt roads and winding uphill through the village of Cipancar, then changed the way that at some point the stone leaving only a slippery ground in the rainy season. Upon entering the tea and quinine plantations directly adjacent to the area a tourist attraction, freshness will ambush you. The buds look like a carpet of green tea is overgrown stands of trees. If there is fog, puddles Jatiluhur in Purwakarta visible from there.







Although often deserted on weekdays, a tourist attraction in the District is always invaded Sagalaherang tourists in the holiday season. On New Year's Eve for example, where it could be a sea of ​​people and shop owners will be very lucky. The young adventurer from Jakarta, Bekasi, Karawang and Subang, of course, partying with other styles kebanggannya. They come with a set of camping equipment such as tents, mats, pots and guitar. Picture taken in front of a waterfall, bathing together, and bernyanyai all night at the campsite, making their experience was very proud of. Enchantment Curug Cijalu ready told in many people.


But perhaps they were deceived, because neither one of two waterfalls located in the tourist attraction called Curug Cijalu! There is only Waterfall and waterfall Cikondang Cilemper. Curug Cikondang about fifty feet high, while the waterfall Cilemper reach fifty yards. Not many tourists are aware that they are not entitled to claim actually never seen a waterfall Cijalu!


In the trees around the second waterfall (waterfall) that still roam some gang Java monkey (Trachypitecus auratus), surili (Presbytis Comata), Long Tail Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) and Javan Gibbon (Hylobates moloch) is the most endangered among other. The birds are still quite a lot: every morning they jumped up and down while singing and suck the nectar of flowers Kaliandra. It is very interesting watching the behavior polahnya. A friend of Nature Conservation NGOs Nusantara (cone) says that this place is perfect to practice observing primates.



  More teasing


Cijalu a real waterfall is not too far from the campsite. About one kilometer to the east. However, because flanked by two elongated ridge and steep, and protected by an amazing forest, the waterfall was not much known to the tourists.




How to get there? In the middle of tea plantation, about five hundred meters before the gate of the campsite, there is a shallow river to flow north toward the south, cut across the road. There was no bridge, and the wheels of your vehicle should voluntarily grinding. That River Ci Jalu. If along the river upstream, you will be faced with a waterfall Cijalu: high waterfall about a hundred yards and allow a brave man suddenly becomes a coward!

The distance was not too far away, at most a mile. But the journey is guaranteed to challenge. It should be half to one hour to arrive at the destination point. Travel time depends on your skill in building their chunks of stone along the river, or paved roads through the bush. If the fog was thick, thick, maybe just five meters remaining visibility.

Curug Cijalu obviously more tempting. And a story, perhaps only would simplify the glory. View of the waterfall Cijalu will be more attractive and more clearly if you go up to the ridge on the east river. There are many gaps to peeked at, and from a slightly higher position, you do not need to be constantly raised his head when looking at water that seemed gushing from the treetops. On the left-right, there is a cliff wall that is guaranteed to make you cringe.


The beauty of the waterfall Cijalu, also attached manakutkan impression on his body, making some people amazed and deserve respect. In fact, there are just people who had come to meditate and pray: ask what the dream can be granted. Respect for and habits such prayer may have been done since antiquity.

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Curug Cikondang and Cilemper belong to the region Burangrang Mountain Nature Reserve which is actually more deserves to be called the Sunda Mountain Nature Reserve. While Cijalu waterfall, is part of Nature Reserve Tangkubanparahu. Both the nature reserve bordering it indeed. Curug Cikondang, Cilemper and Cijalu was only a fraction of the dozens of waterfalls in the north of the Sunda-Tangkubanparahu Mount complex. Many high waterfalls and other exotic relatively rarely seen.

The formation of many waterfalls were closely related to the massive eruption of Mount Sunda-Tangkubanparahu hundreds of thousands of years ago. Hot lava flowing through the valleys and then frozen and the edges form a waterfall. That process seems to repeat several times. Characteristics, in one river basin can be found several waterfalls: the very bottom of course comes from the older lava flows.



Unfortunately, nature is so dramatic in the northern complex of Mount Sunda-Tangkubanparahu less popular by the phenomena at the southern, both in tourism and talks about earth science. South side (Bandung) are more ngota from the north side (Subang and Purwakarta). And as usual, is far and which are difficult to be often forgotten despite truly amazing!