16/10/2015
TANGKUBAN PERAHU
Mount Maras is located about 30 kilometers north of the city of Bandung, more precisely in Lembang, about 30 minutes by using a motor vehicle. Maras have cool air and hot springs at the foot of the mountain with an altitude of 2,084 meters. The air is cool, the expanse of tea plantations, valleys and the high pine trees will accompany your journey towards the gate Maras, the ticket is Rp. 13,000 per person, and the added cost of parking the vehicle, you can enjoy the beauty and coolness of Maras. Maras is the largest mountain in mainland Parahyangan. The mountain is named Maras because the shape resembles a boat overturned.
Tangkuban boat famous for its crater, there are two paths that can be traversed to get to the craters are: The first road or the old road to road conditions more difficult and usually closed after rains because it is considered harmful to pass and the second is a new road is paved that allows you to get in craters, on the side of the winding road in tumbuhi lot of trumpet flowers and other trees.
THE LEGEND OF TANGKUBAN PERAHU
Maras has a legendary story, the core of the story Maras is the presence of a young man named Sangkuriang who fall in love and want to marry a woman named Dayang Sumbi. And they fall in love, but not the suspect by Dayang Sumbi that Sangkuriang is the first biological child away because Dayang Sumbi angry, Sangkuriang kill their pet dog when it failed to hunt deer.
Knowing Sangkuriang is the biological child Dayang Sumbi not want to marry Sangkuriang and remedy reject an application of Sangkuriang, Dayang Sumbi asked for a boat along the lake in one night. With the assistance of the Jinn Sangkuriang began making the boat, saw the boat Sangkuriang almost completed Dayang Sumbi intend to denied.
Thanks to prayer, chickens crowing and genies who had helped Sangkuriang was running scared because they thought it was already morning, consequently conditions requested Dayang Sumbi not successfully completed by Sangkuriang. Sangkuriang was furious and kicked homemade boat, the boat fell on his face and there was a Mount Maras.
Address : Jl. Raya Tangkuban Parahu No. 147 Lembang Bandung Utara/Lembang, Indonesia