Sight Seeing

Gunung Manglayang is the mountain with 2 tops where we are, halfway up at 950 m height, it’s still about 900m up more to the top at 1835 m height. It is a National Nature Reserve, to protect flora and fauna, and especially its water sources.

Pak Udjo, is a place on 40min drive from us. It’s a performance with children of traditional music, Angklung, dance and wayang performances, it’s every day, at about 15;00 and takes 1,5 hour.

Tangkuban perahu, is located on a 1,5-2 hour drive north west from us, mostly you pass the city or ask our staff to send you the backroad through villages and an old colonial Kina garden or what’s left from it. The road is bad, small, steep, but interesting enough.Count then an extra hour. Tangkuban perahu itself is an enormous crater, deep and as you know they look like, smell of sulfer, many stalls with souvenirs on the edges. Good to make some walk, pictures and so on.

From the Tangkuban perahu gate, you can take the main road in the direction of Ciater/SUBANG. You will also pass a tea plantation down to Ciater hot springs, which is a touristy and not a really nice place in our opinion. A better option for a natural hot bath could be Gracia hot springs, which is a private place, and also more expensive. If you enter such natural hot spring baths with sulfur, watch your silver.

1,5-2 hours drive south, on the mountain Patuha 2434 m area Ciwedey, Hight there is one of Bandung main krater sites, called Kawah Putih, white crater which is a white volcano lake in this active crater. Nice for a walk and to see, a bit further up the main road to the south there is a big tea estate, called ranca Bolang, Bali and or Upas.

Pangalengan, on a 2-hour drive south, you find the heart of Bandung tea culture existing from the past colonial era. It’s a sloping tea landscape between 1400 & 2000m height waves as far as you can see in certain positions there. “De Heeren van de thee” is a book by HELLA HAASENS. It’s about this area in colonial times, Gamboeng, named in +1880, the home of the family “van Kerkhoven” who developed that estate out of the jungle. This estate still stands, and you can walk in there. It’s a homestay as well, might you like.

The third nearby crater around Bandung is located about two hours from us to the southeast. This geothermal area features geysers and steam vents, with steam harnessed to generate electricity — you can see the installation and pipes spread across the landscape.

Kampung Naga, “Village of the Dragon”, is a traditional Sundanese village in West Java, nestled in a cozy valley. Preserved and protected by its inhabitants, it remains just as it has been for generations.

• Use a motorbike when possible — even in the rainy season, it doesn’t rain all day.
• For long day trips, start early and bring drinks, snacks, sunscreen, and a vest or jacket.
• Avoid beach-bound routes (south toward Ciamis) on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays due to heavy traffic.