Sunday, April 13, 2014
his mountain is 2084 m above sea
level and located 30 km north of Bandung. It is one of the most chosen tourism
objects which offer the charm of nature far away from the crowded city.
Tangkuban Perahu offers you a mystery with its wide spread craters. Tangkuban
Perahu has several craters, the most popular are Ratu crater, Domas crater,
Upas crater and Baru crater. When you visit mountTangkuban Perahu, you will be
mesmerized by the beauty of nature’s wonders like pine trees and the volcanic
process.
The form of Tangkuban Perahu
looks like an upside down boat, and is believed to have a connection with the
legend of Sangkuriang, as one of the fairytales from West Java. MountTangkuban
Perahu now provides several alternatives of tourism such as nature tourism,
education tourism, adventure tourism and outdoor training.
(spelt Tangkuban Parahu in the local Sundanese
dialect) is a dormant volcano 30 km north of the city of Bandung, the
provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. It
last erupted in 1826, 1829, 1842, 1846, 1896, 1910, 1926, 1929, 1952, 1957,
1961, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1983. It is a popular tourist attraction where tourists
can hike or ride to the edge of the crater
to view the hot water springs and boiling mud up close, and buy eggs cooked on
the hot surface. This stratovolcano is on the island of Java and last erupted
in 1983. Together with Mount Burangrang and Bukit Tunggul, those are
remnants of the ancient Mount Sunda after the plinian
eruption caused the Caldera to collapse.
In April 2005 the Directorate of Volcanology and Geological
Hazard Mitigation raised an alert, forbidding visitors from going up the
volcano. "Sensors on the slopes of the two mountains - Anak Krakatoa on the
southern tip of Sumatra
Island and Tangkuban Perahu in Java - picked up an increase in volcanic
activity and a build up of gases, said government volcanologist Syamsul
Rizal."
A study conducted in 2001 determined that Tangkuban Perahu has
erupted at least 30 times in the previous 40,750 years. Studies of the tephra layers
within 3 km of the crater revealed that twenty one were minor eruptions
and the remaining nine were major eruptions. The eruptions that occurred prior
to approximately 10,000 years ago were magmatic/phreatomagmatic. The eruptions that
occurred after 10,000 years ago were phreatic." The volcano erupted as
recently as October 5, 2013
