Caves Sanghyang Tikoro Cianjur

In addition to the Peak, Bandung is also a favorite weekend tourist destination for people in Jakarta and surrounding areas. To be able to reach the city of Bandung, Jakarta residents simply use toll roads, making it very easy to access the city that is in this mountainous region. For Jakarta residents who do not have a vehicle, do not need to worry because there are many travel services that provide transportation from Jakarta to Bandung.

In addition to ease of access, Bandung also has many interesting sights so crowded by tourists who live around Bandung. Well this time it hits travel team will provide one of the tourist attractions around Bandung precisely in Cianjur district which is amazing.

Trance is a term for cave or river that is sacred or historical for the local community. Sanghyang Tikoro itself is defined as a cave homage to the river where the river goes into the cave and an unknown direction of flow to where. It is said that local people said, if we put up a stick into the flow of the river there it will sound like a human voice choking. So from that referred Tikoro in Sundanese, which means throat.

Sanghyang Tikoro located very close together once with Saguling, Cianjur. Right next to this site there are magnificent building hydroelectric power plants (hydropower), which his resources obtained through streams in two gigantic pipe. Most oranng still confused if you want to find this site, and therefore through this article the author will list the coordinates of Tikoro Trance and Trance Poek, so you can easily track them via GPS or Google maps. Location coordinates are S6'51.713 'and E107'21.256'.

Site Sanghyang Tikoro itself is generally located in Cianjur, around Saguling. There are no special signs indicating the presence of this site. However sebagau benchmark, after turning into the gate of the highway Saguling Bandung - Cianjur, about 1 km and then will meet with the fork, well there are signposts that read "Power House" to the right. Simply follow the directions to the right and soon will meet with big building power plants, called the Power House earlier. Site Sanghyang Tikoro is next to this building. Here I will try to describe separately on Sanghyang Tikoro.

Right next to the Power House building, you will see stairs going down that ends in a small courtyard. After descend, you will see a new form of Sanghyang Tikoro. Because the location is quite hidden, so it is not obvious if you did not come down the courtyard.

We ourselves are not satisfied if just saw a hole underground river cave if not approached directly, eventually "naughty idea" was crossed. We then jumped the fence to be able to immediately jump to the cave mouth. This should not be imitated, because the flow of the river is very swift, and the risk of falling is very large. At that time our thirst for adventure has defeated sehat..hahaha sense. And finally we reached the mouth of the cave, of course with his mysterious river flow.

Why mysterious? Yep, because until now no one knows what direction this river will be anchored anywhere. The sound of the rushing rivers echoing loudly as he entered the cave. If observed through sound, it looks like the elevation angle after passing this cave will decrease, making it appear like the sound of the waterfall.

Local communities even hooked Trance Tikoro with reflux legend Bandung Purba Lake. Of course I was also intrigued by the legend. Once I find out, I found a scientific article here,

In the article, several times published articles about the breakdown of Bandung Purba Lake written by T. Bachtiar. The writings were based primarily on the scientific paper in Geological Magazine Indonesia Vol. 17 No. December 3, 2002, issue of Indonesian Geologists Association (IAGI), entitled "Analysis of Geomorphology Hills Saguling-Sangiangtikoro: Drying Bandung Purba Lake Caves Sangiangtikoro not Through" by Budi Brahmantyo, Sampurno, and Bandono.

On paper it is proved that the cave Sanghyang tikoro the elevation of not more than 354 m above mean sea not the cause of the breakdown of Bandung Purba Lake. Capricorn Caves in Sanhyang tikoro nature are high and sturdy walls that become a barrier puddle with Sangiangtikoro ancient lake. So that the ancient lake receded, must be breaking this barrier wall that connects the tops punggungannya namely Pasir Kiara 732 m and 850 m Peak bans.

If we examine the texture of rocks around, it will look similar limestone rock which is actually not friendly with water. Researchers can only ensure that Sanghyang Tikoro not the cause reflux Bandung Purba Lake, but still could not find an answer about where this river empties?

Maybe you should come to this location to discover the thrill of seeing a direct underground rivers Sanghyang Tikoro.