Ciwidey is a small village up in the mountains, about 2.5 hours drive from downtown Bandung. The village is a perfect place to get landscape views of tea plantations, get your wish for strawberries become true and admire Kawah Putih, a lake formed out of one of the two craters of the Mount Patuha volcano.
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| Dead trees at Kawah Putih |
As soon as you start going down the path to the lake, you feel the very strong smell of sulfur due to the good deal of steam and sulfurous gas bubbling from the lake. Of course there are a number of stalls selling paper masks! The place is impressive. The color of the water is beautiful and called for a swim, but did not sound as a great idea...
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| Sulfurous steam |
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Sulfur "stones"
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The morning was filled with some adventure... after jump starting our mini bus we headed to the Kampung Strawberry resort, where we moved into our bungalows under a pouring rain, which - lucky us! - as usual did not last long!
What would you think of doing at Kampung Strawberry Resort? How about strawberry picking?
Several farmers turned part of their strawberry plantations into an attraction for tourists, where it is fairly easy for us lazy "urbans" to pick strawberries without bending too much...
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| Yolande, Trupty and Maej |
What would you think of doing at Kampung Strawberry Resort? How about strawberry picking? |
| The "toll booth" |
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| The property |
Saturday afternoon devoted to getting our skin refreshed in a hot spring pool. Being a vulcanic area there are a number of them around Bandung. This one is more of a pool than a real hot spring, but it seemed to be very popular around locals!
On Sunday we headed back to Bandung going through a carpet of tea fields. The harvested tea is packed in large roll bags before being loaded on the tracks that will take millions of tea leaves to the factory for processing:
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| Patenggang Lake |
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| Boats and tea plantation on Patenggang lake |
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| Tourists on Patenggang lake |
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